Pearl Lu

Pearl Lu

Materiality

Don't Weep, Willow

This collection is an homage to my mother, an artist who no longer paints.
Don’t Weep, Willow is years of unsaid words.
The weeping willow becomes both metaphor and method—
a symbol of bending without breaking,
mourning without words.
Through original prints of my mother's paintings and my painting custom printed on mulberry silk in Suzhou, China - the City of Silk, I translate memory to material. Each of the 10 looks is crafted from 100% silk, 8 of which are made from mulberry silk.
Like the silkworm, mothers quietly unravel themselves to weave a more beautiful life for their daughters.

This is not a typical mother-daughter story.
It speaks through long nights of crafting where words have failed.
It resists neat endings.
It is a refusal to forget.
Image: Complete Looks 1-10
Image: Original Photograph
Image: Original Prints Extracted From my Painting For Looks 1, 5, and 8.
Later Split Into Six Larger Paintings, Each 39 x 50 Inches
Image: Look 1 (Pearl's Painting Custom Print)
Image: Mom's Painting Custom Printed Looks 2 & 7
Image: Mom's Painting Custom Printed Looks 3 & 6
Image: Look 2
Image: Look 3: Reversible Mulberry Silk Coat
Image: Look 4: Laser Cut Organza Peonies on Chiffon
Image: Look 5
Image: Look 7
Image: Look 8
Image: Palace Museum 2025
Image: Palace Museum 2025
Image: Behind the Scenes
London, Thursday April 24, 2025
Blundell Street Studios
Unit 1, Acorn Production Centre, 105 Blundell Street, London N7 9BN, United Kingdom
Image: Thank you all,
Pearl here.
Thank you to my family, forever and always.
To my professors, Colin and Daniel, teachers, and mentors, for your wisdom and kindness,
to my lovely friends,
and to everyone else I met on my journey.

妈妈，我爱您！

Photographer : YANGHAN 杨寒 @yanghanphoto
Talent : Jenny Zhang & 秃秃 (Ms. Guo)
Hair Stylist: MASASHI KONNO @masashikonnohair
Makeup Artist: Mari Kuno @_kunomari
Hair & Makeup Artist: 丢丢 (Ms. Zhang)
Flower Set Prop & Design: HAMISH POWELL @hamishpowell
Set Design: Rory Qianrong Huang
Assistants: Steven Leung Yibao Liang, Bing Geng, Mengyun He, Lingyi Cong, Alexia JingJing Xia

Bio

PEARL LU

Pearl Lu is a fashion design student from Queens, New York, with roots in a Beijing-based family of artists, writers, lecturers, and calligraphers. A graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School with a fine arts focus, she later found her creative home at Parsons School of Design. Alongside fashion, Pearl pursued photography—a pivotal path that led her into the vibrant world of prints. Her Materiality Thesis Collection fuses fine art and fashion into a deeply personal narrative, exploring maternal love, sacrifice, and identity through tactile storytelling and bold, emotionally charged design.

pearlpenghuiluu@gmail.com@pearlpenghuiluwww.pearlpenghuilu.com
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