UNDER THE SHELL is based on an immersive personalized fashion system. This system is informed by values such as community, sustainability, emotion, and full immersion. The digital space is a utopia I want to share with people, the world people can relax, enjoy, and shop. The story follows the chapters Restrain, Quest, Perceive, Demolish and Rebuild. The film is the journey to listen to the inner voice, and it’s an awakening moment of the consciousness about embracing, loving your own body. I weaved the digital with physical space in the film to share the surreal, crossover world with people. The dark space in the film is like her deep mind, which is full of loneliness, lack of confidence, afraid about herself and her body. The pure white space symbols her new-born, she touches and feels herself with curiosity. People appear around her are herself, her shadow, her friend, her community…

BY  Xiaoling Xiaoling (UK)


XIAOLING is a fashion humanwear and Digital designer based in London. XIAOLING graduated from the Royal College of Art MA fashion womenswear in 2021. She finished her BA fashion course at Bunka fashion college and Donghua University in Japan and China. Due to the creativity and diversity of the design, she got several design awards both in fashion and other collaborative fields and constant scholarships. She also leads several fashion projects and multidiscipline projects. Xiaoling has professional skills in fashion and textile techniques as well as 3D software. Her multidisciplinary skills and interests bring her work to a crossover world between the digital and physical space. She always seeks to build an emotional connection between garments and wearers. Her work is informed by values such as community, sustainability, emotion, and full immersion.