A year ago we talked to Leeann Huang about Still Life on Screen, where food became an object of digital contemplation. Today, her new collection, Muzzy Picnic for Fall/Winter 2025, continues to explore the intersection between fashion and gastronomy, but from a more personal and sensorial perspective. The designer introduces us to a subjective experience: the blurred perception of the world after a brief loss of vision. "Last year, I experienced a brief period of vision loss where everything around me became blurry and surreal. That moment deeply shaped this collection. It's my way of translating that hazy, dreamlike world into something tangible”, she confesses.
That sense of visual uncertainty translates into a series of optical effects that transform texture and colour. "I wanted to recreate the sensation of seeing through a soft-focus lens, so I leaned into fuzzy textures like mohair and layered, distorted prints. The result is a collection that feels like stepping into a waking dream.” In this exploration, the garments play with perception: innovative pleats, blurred graphics, and lenticular patchworks evoke a fragmented reality, at once ethereal and tactile.
The connection to her own experience is not merely aesthetic. "During that week, I had to wear special glasses just to watch TV or feel ‘normal.’ That experience became a key influence—lenticular prints, pleating techniques, and shifting visuals throughout the collection echo that fragmented way of seeing." In this distorted landscape, references to food are still present in this collection in the form of apples and tomatoes that blur into the fabric, or a total look in red and green that might remind you of a strawberry.
Within this play of visual distortions, one print stands out for its emotional charge. "One of the most personal prints in the collection is the rainbow aura motif, which comes from a collection of aura energy readings—both my own and my friends'—taken over the years. It’s a reflection of unseen energy, shifting perception, and the way emotions manifest in color." And as if fashion needs to move to be fully seen, Huang emphasises the importance of dynamism in her work: "Lenticular pieces in the collection require movement—dancing, shifting, swaying—to reveal their full effect. That interaction between fabric and motion is something I’ve always been drawn to, and in this collection, it mirrors the sensation of blurred vision and shifting focus." Muzzy Picnic invites us, then, to see the world with squinted eyes, to let the images decompose and recombine with the gesture of the body.
