This Singaporean fashion designer makes clothes to empower stroke survivors and those with limited mobility

Then he came Care collectionA thesis project she worked on with her schoolmate at Parsons, Amy Yu Chen, and her roommate Julia Liao, an industrial designer. Designed for her friend with limited mobility, the collection offers a tech-enabled dressing experience with inflatable parts that “lift” into the body and are hidden within the garment.

Poe equates it with ““Using air to create a more automated way to dress oneself” This idea may seem strange when applied to fashion, but it’s no different from technology applications in other fields, such as self-driving cars. “This process has taught me to draw ideas and developments outside of fashion to improve our living conditions,” she said.

The most ingenious piece in the collection is the inflatable dress as described above, which conveniently connects to an air pump via a magnet, and then inflates and becomes rigid, allowing the wearer to shift it around her waist before cinching in and out. The air in the container.

“We had to improvise… we used a mini iron to make an inflatable skirt, sandwiching seams between baking sheets on the vinyl. We bought inflatable mattresses on Amazon and cut out the air pump. “Julia also helped us design the 3D printed nozzles,” Poh said.