The Blue String - How Fashion Shaped My Approach To World-building
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USE OF BLUE AS AN ANCHOR TO ESTABLISH MY IDENTITY IN STYLING. 

- HARD AND SOFT
-POLISHED AND UNPOLISHED
MY STYLING PORTFOLIO
My interest in world building is closely tied to my background in fashion promotion and imaging, alongside my experience as a fashion stylist, where I developed an understanding of styling, branding, and visual identity as interconnected systems. Although I later moved away from formal study, this training continues to inform my creative approach.



My core principles as a stylist—such as working with texture, balancing hard and soft elements, and maintaining a continuous visual thread through recurring colours like blue—gradually became foundational to my world-building practice. I was drawn to creating shape, contrast and cohesion through clothing, viewing each look as part of a larger visual narrative rather than an isolated outfit.
Over time, these principles translated into my music production, where I began shaping sound through layering, texture and contrast in much the same way I had approached styling. The same thinking now informs my filmmaking, art direction and set design, where visual and sonic elements are composed as interconnected parts of a cohesive creative world.