Lidya Chrisfens is a fashion educator and designer with 20 years of industry and academic experience. She teaches fashion making at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, with a focus on creative pattern cutting, digital fashion, and sustainable design practices. Her pedagogical approach is grounded in critical making and experiential learning, encouraging students to work intuitively through the body, material, and space. With a Master’s in Art Pedagogy and Practice, Lidya continually explores new ways of teaching that connect process, emotion, and concept—championing a curriculum that values experimentation, embodied knowledge, and future-facing design education.
Lidya’s research practice operates at the intersection of fashion, performance, and philosophy. Drawing from phenomenology, particularly notions of Atmospheric Space, Conceptual Space, and the embodied mind, her work explores how memory, emotion, proprioception, and material sensibility shape the act of making. She engages transdisciplinary approaches that merge fashion with performing arts, using these as a lens to understand the designer’s internal landscape. Her signature methodology, Blind-Draping, was developed in 2020 and has since gained international recognition for its ability to reframe how design can emerge through tactile perception rather than visual intent. This method has earned her the Emerging Scholar Award (2023) and Best Poster Presentation (2022), and is published in Radical Fashion Exercises: A Workbook of Modes and Methods (Valiz, 2023).
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