Cherry Luk
Cherry Luk is an Australian emerging designer. Born in Hong Kong, Cherry moved to Sydney, Australia with her family in 2002, where she studied Fashion and Textiles throughout her High School years, and continued her passion for fashion design at University of Technology, Sydney. Cherry is passionate about tailoring and often draws inspiration from clean-cut lines and shapes found within architecture. She likes to experiment with both tailoring and drape techniques to create garments that challenge the interpretation of gender within our society. She also likes to use natural fibres such as cotton, silks and wool blends to create quality garments that are soft and comfortable to wear. Cherry has recently completed her Bachelor of Design in Fashion and Textiles (Hons.) at University of Technology Sydney, where her graduate menswear collection was shown in the UTS Graduate Fashion Show, VAMFF, and ID Emerging Designers Showcase. Her graduate collection has also been featured on online platforms such as Oyster, GQ Australia, and Manuscript.
TRANS/form is a menswear collection that articulates the idea of a double identity within transgender people. This collection explores the conflict between the internal and external identities within transgender individuals, deconstructing the transgender identity into two layers, the inner and outer.
The inner identity refers to the emotional and psychological identity of an individual, while the outer identity refers to the physical appearance that an individual is born with.
This collection concerns the transformation of a trans person, the process of changing from one gender to another. This idea is interpreted through the deconstruction of the male shirt, and combining it with draped elements to create silhouettes that blur the boundaries between the female and male genders. By manipulating the traditional silhouettes within menswear tailoring, this collection is able to change the meaning of dressing like a “man”, providing men with silhouettes that are not typically recognised as being a man.
