Yinzhe Liu‘s final project at IED Barcelona, Pieces of Tomorrow, uses knitwear to tell a story about time, healing and human connections. The collection includes four complete looks (each with one outer piece and two inner layers ), all made to work year-round in eye-catching yellows, blues and greens.

Liu sees knitting as a lot like living. Both take patience. Both grow slowly, stitch by stitch, even when you can’t see the progress. In knitting, mistakes happen, and you can go back and fix them or leave them in as part of the design. Life works the same way, Liu suggests. Hard moments don’t have to ruin everything. We can learn from them or make them part of who we become.

The clothes also speak about relationships. Every stitch is like a person in your life, some make the fabric stronger, others might weaken it. To create something lasting, Liu says, you need to notice which stitches help and which ones don’t. The bright colors and careful construction of Pieces of Tomorrow show what happens when we take time to weave our lives with care.

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