About
Mitchell Hoo is a fashion creative whose practice interrogates the intersections of politics, anthropology and culture through art direction, photography and narrative. His work has been recognised as a Top 30 finalist for the Vogue Singapore Talent Prize 2025 and he has contributed to publications such as Grazia Singapore and HallyuSG.
Anchored in themes of paradox, Mitchell's work explores sociocultural issues and critically rethinks fashion's role within a Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear and Incomprehensible (BANI) world. Through an autoethnographic approach, he seeks to foster dialogue and catalyse change, informed by a perspective that balances creative vision with commercial awareness.
These ideas materialise in his work including his final-year research dissertation, which examines fashion's sociopolitical relationship with religion and sexuality. Titled 'The Fashioned Body in Conflict: Negotiating Catholicism and Homosexuality in Contemporary Singapore', his dissertation was selected as one of 32 papers college-wide to be presented at the Trans/Mission 2026 conference.
His creative practice also spans editorial, entrepreneurial and marketing leadership. Most notably, he was the editorial director of Neither/Nor: Fashioning The In-Between (2024), a publication developed in collaboration with the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Mitchell's multidisciplinary background includes a Diploma in Fashion Business from the Singapore Fashion Council and a Diploma in Chinese Studies (Business) from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, where has was in the top 10% of his cohort. He has also collaborated with cultural institutions like the Singapore Chamber of Commerce (Shanghai), where he contributed to branding and outreach initiatives.
Between Sin and Salvation
A reckoning unfolds between faith and desire.
Set within the oscillation between the 1980s and contemporary Singapore—neither wholly public nor entirely private—the film traces fragments of memory, longing and restraint. Gestures drift in and out of light, caught between what is confessed and what is concealed.
Two lives move in parallel, serendipitously drawn together by the unspeakable and the sacred. In this tension, love emerges as a question that lingers between sin and salvation.
Fragment is a part of the Between Sin and Salvation project, exploring the lived experiences of gay Catholics in contemporary Singapore, where devotion and desire are not opposites, but entangled states of being.
Between Sin and Salvation is a project comprising a two-volume print publication and an accompanying mood film. It reimagines the coexistence of faith and sexuality, using fashion imagery, essays and personal testimonies to examine how the Catholic doctrine and Singapore’s sociopolitical systems regulate bodies and desire.
The project interrogates the contradictions embedded within these moral frameworks, reframing the homosexual body as one capable of sanctified love through the lens of fashion. By visualising a future where belonging is not contingent on conformity, it proposes new ways of understanding morality while challenging inherited assumptions about identity.
Creative Direction, Photography, Cinematography, Production, Styling & Words: MITCHELL HOO MIN CHER
Production & Photography Assistants: JAY LIM & CELESTINA GIMINO
Styling Assistants: NICHOLAS TAN & ASHLEY CHAN
Characters: FRIAS CRESENCIO III BANCORO & ROYCE TEO
Yang Chaiwon
Li Jiajia
Celestina Ann Gimino
Kwon Min Kyoung
Charlize Zhou Kun
Wang Yijia
