Uyen Nguyen

Biography

Uyen Nguyen is an NYC based artist and fashion designer who specializes in origami. Their fashion designs all start as concepts in paper, which then get translated to fabric through the pleating and heatsetting process. They have a love of bright, fully saturated colors which is apparent in their work.

Looks

About the look

Antiprism Pants

Poly Taffeta

2020

This pair of pants can change length by either engaging or disengaging the ribbon suspenders. The folding pattern creates a column of pentagonal antiprisms, which have been designed to be flat-foldable, enabling the length change.

Fibonacci Top

Nylon Organza

2020

The pleating pattern for this shirt is based on the Fibonacci Sequence. Starting from the middle and moving outward, the width of each chevron follows the Fibonacci Sequence.

Antiprism Backpack

Leather, metal hardware

2016

This backpack is flat-foldable for storage and pops up into a pentagonal antiprism when you want to carry something in it.

About the look

Waterbomb Pants

Polyester

2020

These pants use a traditional origami waterbomb tessellation, but the pattern has been modified to account for the changing curvature along a leg, treating it more like a frustum than a cylinder.

About the look

Parabola Crop Top

Poly Taffeta

2020

This crop top is made with an origami pattern that was designed using the method described in the paper "Folding Functions: Origami Corrugations from Equations." The equation in question is that of a parabola, and the entire pattern is flat-foldable so that it can easily be heatset.