Ngan Lok

Ngan Lok is a Shenzhen-based fashion group encompassing multiple brands and diffusion lines, with in-house design and sampling, its own manufacturing infrastructure, and showrooms and retail across China. TDC became creative lead for TTT, the group's premium line, working across product, textile, image and collection development.

The T-shirt capsule became a focused exploration of print and knitted textiles. Rather than treating the T-shirt as a basic or secondary product, the aim was to use its simplicity as a canvas for experimentation — allowing surface, image, placement and fabrication to carry the identity of the collection.

Prints evolved through digital experimentation using photography, controlled lighting, movement, colour and texture. Working closely with Ngan Lok's digital developer, each image was manipulated and refined on screen before moving into physical sampling, allowing precise control over tone, resolution, scale and print quality.

Collage became an important part of the process, moving continually between digital and physical experimentation, screen and body, image and pattern piece. Each placement was considered in direct relationship to the garment, with prints engineered and scaled so that they sat precisely as intended. The result was a capsule in which an apparently simple product became the site for highly considered textile, technical and visual development.