RESEARCH // 3D PROTOTYPING // FINAL PRODUCT DELIVERY // CLO3D // LECTRA MODARIS // SUBSTANCE // BLENDER
** Please note: Due to NDAs, various fashion, garment, and specific environment work completed for The Modern Mirror cannot be displayed publicly. However, I’d be happy to discuss my contributions and experience in detail during interviews. **
For my final major project, I wanted to create a menswear collection that was both deeply personal and technically ambitious. Inspired by three close friends—two survivors and one who lost his life in the 2019 STEM School shooting—I aimed to honor their passions and individuality through a collection that explored the intersection of functionality, emotion, and design.
The goal was to design a six-look autumn/winter menswear collection rooted in each friend’s personality, translating their stories into fully realized digital and physical garments. I also wanted to build a virtual showroom that gave context to their inspirations through immersive digital environments.
Key takeaways:
The project earned recognition at Graduate Fashion Week and positioned me as a finalist in multiple award categories and winning the Fashion Innovation Award. More importantly, it demonstrated how emotionally driven storytelling and technical precision can coexist in digital fashion. The project saved significant production time, reduced physical sampling by over 80%, and showcased my ability to lead a complex workflow from research to production to immersive presentation.
Here I wanted to create a personal pipeline challenge that pushed my material realism and asset consistency across platforms. Instead of referencing external materials or scans, I chose to replicate garments from my own closet entirely from scratch.
The goal was to build an efficient, repeatable workflow for digital garment creation that would hold up under both creative and technical scrutiny—especially when facing difficult textures like custom knits, crystals, worn/fraying fabric, and unconventional fabric blends.
Key takeaways:
As a result, I developed a highly modular workflow that let me tackle garment realism from material to fit without relying on pre-built assets or stock textures. This approach improved turnaround time and fidelity while giving me a better grasp of how material properties behave across platforms—knowledge that translates directly into scalable asset libraries.
I was commissioned by a client to create a high-accuracy 3D model of the Nike Air Max 1 for their personal creative use. The client didn’t need textures, only clean UV’d geometry to build their own designs on top of. After completing the modeling, I decided to take the project further by developing custom materials and final renders, based on a live Nike product listing.
The primary deliverable was a fully UV’d, production-ready model that the client could apply textures to with no clean-up. Afterward, my self-directed task was to texture the shoe in detail, using a diverse range of materials—each mapped and rendered with realism and nuance.
Key takeaways:
The project pushed both my modeling discipline and material design depth—challenging me to combine utility and artistry. The final renders represent one of my most advanced footwear visualization pieces and show my readiness to handle real-world manufacturing detail, accurate material behavior, and optimized asset structure. It also proved that my workflow could scale across product categories.
I wanted to push both my footwear modeling and storytelling-through-materials skills by recreating my own worn pair of Prada Monolith loafers in 3D. I believe that the missing link in anything 3D design related has to do with the human touch. So, attempting to tell the story of how I interact with my own shoes and infer details from those stories was a huge part of this project.
My goal was to digitally replicate the visual and tactile wear patterns of the shoes—including creases, scuffs, color variation/stains, and sole wear—to capture not just the product, but the story of use, habit, and time.
Key takeaways:
The final renders reflect both material realism and emotional authenticity—each imperfection grounded in actual use. This project highlighted my ability to combine technical control with narrative subtlety, using texture to tell a human story. It remains one of my most detail-driven and personally meaningful builds.
While I had strong experience in digital menswear and technical material work, I had limited exposure to womenswear design and had never created a full 3D human. To expand my capabilities, I set out to challenge myself with both at once by recreating an intricate Mugler crystal bodysuit from scratch on a self-modeled digital avatar.
My goal was to prove to myself that I could step into completely unfamiliar territory and still produce a professional-grade outcome. I wanted the final product to feel polished enough for production visualization while also capturing the detail and drama of the original piece.
Key takeaways:
This project solidified my confidence in working through the unknown. I developed the ability to independently research, troubleshoot, and solve new modeling, rendering, and garment design challenges. I walked away not just with a compelling visual—but with a personal workflow that’s now applicable to character-driven storytelling, immersive digital fashion, and future collaborative pipelines.
As part of a group project responding to a Burberry industry brief, we were tasked with developing a garment collection that honored the brand’s heritage while pushing forward with inclusive, technology-enabled design. We needed to balance commercial viability with creative risk and digital precision.
My specific responsibility was to lead pattern development and digital fitting across multiple garments. I aimed to introduce kinetic pattern cutting and inclusive sizing through 3D scanning technology, ensuring that both the design and the fit would reflect modern performance needs and real-world body diversity.
Key takeaways:
The final garments delivered a clear blend of Burberry brand ethos and future-facing technical design, with versatile silhouettes, precision pattern cutting, and inclusive sizing. My work on the kinetic block became foundational for multiple team members’ garments, streamlining our process and ensuring consistent fit. It also gave me hands-on experience designing at production standard.
After completing my final major collection, I wanted to carry forward and expand on the design language I had spent countless hours refining. I recognized that consistency and repeatability in details—just like in traditional pattern blocks—could be leveraged as a design “system” for future personal work.
I set out to develop a core set of signature design details that could serve as a modular foundation across future collections. My goal was to make these details scalable, technically sound, and translatable across different garment types and fabrication approaches.
Key takeaways:
This project gave me a functional, re-usable system of construction logic and surface detail that operates like a personal pattern block—but for style and identity. It reinforced my ability to think long-term, document work for scale, and maintain a clear visual language while still innovating. These pieces now serve as a technical and aesthetic foundation for future client work, freelance projects, and personal collections.
I was given a tight four-day turnaround to recreate select Hugo Boss runway garments for a demonstration task. The brief was limited to recreating the outfits, but I saw it as an opportunity to push beyond expectations and demonstrate my ability to lead full-scene development under pressure.
While the instruction was to reproduce the garments, I decided to expand the scope to include a complete menswear and womenswear look, create a realistic environment, and develop a polished, presentation-ready visualization using my full 3D workflow.
Key takeaways:
I turned what could have been a straightforward asset recreation into a compelling visual story, showing initiative, compositional skill, and cross-software agility under pressure. This project demonstrated my ability to deliver high-quality visuals in accelerated timelines, integrate multiple toolsets seamlessly, and go beyond the ask to create work that feels production-ready, brand-aligned, and emotionally engaging.