Mai Thi Truong is a first generation Vietnamese American who was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i. She is currently livingin Ann Arbor, Michigan and attending the University of Michigan persuing a bachelor in arts and a minor in environmental science. Her work consists mostly of photography and fashion design with a little bit of web and graphic design on the side.

She is currently working on several projects dealing with using wrappers and other everyday materials and turning them into wearable art. She hopes to complete a set of 12 dresses for the upcoming sustainable fashion show that is taking place in April of 2010. If anyone has any Forever21 plastic bags, please send them her way.

At the moment she is working as a freelance photographer until she can figure out which path of photograhy she wants to venture into.