Lisa Lai is a fashion designer specialized in bags, apparel, and sustainability, currently based in Vancouver, BC
I am a multidisciplinary designer with 9+ years of experience in the eco-fashion industry with a focus on bag design, accessories, and fully fashioned knit apparel. My belief is that designers have a responsibility to create work that takes note of its worldly context, thus design should be both a mixture of timeliness and timelessness. This means it is both relevant to our current time, beautiful, yet sustainable in material and form.
Creative Process
EMPATHIZE
Understanding customer, client, research
DEFINE
Establishing the why and what
IDEATE
Concept, mood, sketching, ideating
PROTOTYPE
Lo-fi prototypes, refined prototypes to prove concept
TEST
Test with users & commercialize
Just like the scientific method where you go through specific steps, I go through a very thorough design process , focusing a lot on concept and research before diving into the mood, sketches, ideation, prototypes, and final design.