About
Charlize Zhou Kun is a fashion designer and documentary photographer whose work centres on observing the quiet, often overlooked details of everyday life.
She is drawn to the subtle presence of people, objects and spaces, using both fashion and imagery as a way to capture moments that feel intimate and unspoken.
Her practice adopts a humanistic approach, exploring the relationship between individuals and their surroundings. Through a sensitive and reflective lens, she documents the emotional weight carried in ordinary scenes, seeking meaning in stillness, imperfection and the passage of time.
Charlize’s work reflects an ongoing inquiry into how people exist within the present moment, and how identity, memory and environment quietly shape one another.
Vanillage Ln: Portable Dwelling
Vanillage Ln is a ritual-based fashion brand that explores how clothing can function as a system for emotional calm.
Responding to emotional fatigue among urban Gen Z, the project shifts fashion from visual aesthetics to 'calm as a designed behaviour', embedding rituals into garments, spaces and everyday experiences.
Through a multisensory approach combining clothing, sound, bread-making and community, Vanillage Ln builds an 'emotional architecture' where calm is created through repeatable, lived actions.
At its core is the concept of portable dwelling, transforming garments into wearable spaces of comfort, continuity and belonging.
Wang Yujia
Tan Yi Enn
Chin Li Ri
Wu Yunshan
Kashish Malani
Nurzuhairah Binte Mohammad Yazid
