Stephanie Weiling-Wong’s first design was a sleek evening dress for her doll, fashioned from an orange caterpillar balloon. Dabbling in a variety of creative crafts such as painting, crocheting and sewing with focus on fashion design and making, she attended many different extra-curricular courses and exhibitions to expand her knowledge and skills.

Weiling-Wong's Final Major Project, æBiodiversity in Fashion” is centred around her love and fascination for nature and an unexplored concept from a previous project linked to conservation.

Initially, Weiling-Wong's vision was to create a sensory rich garment — a biodiversity not ravaged by humans — but through her journey to create this, she found she created a garment created in this reality, where, although biodiversity has been severely impacted by humans, even little pockets of nature within a city can create a moment of calm.

Using natural materials such as hemp and wool and experimenting with alternative materials such as kombucha leather and potato starch polymer, Weiling-Wong explores ways to reduce her ecological impact and move forward into a more circular and slow fashion future.

Her design is featured in “shift.”, a magazine created by Sophie Templer who published the first edition this May.

Weiling-Wong is now looking for opportunities to continue her journey in her chosen career.