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Lilian Alvarez Uses Fashion to Celebrate Ecuador’s Natural Landscapes
For Ecuadorian designer Lilian Alvarez, fashion is more than making garments. It is a way of understanding the world. Through her emerging label, Lilial, she combines fashion, photography, and creative direction to tell stories rooted in memory, landscape, and identity. Rather than treating nature as visual inspiration alone, Alvarez invites people to experience it with…
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Inside Megan Chapman’s Armor-Inspired Collection
Fashion has always been more than clothing for Megan Chapman. For her, it became a way to process grief, resilience, and personal growth. Her graduate collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology is inspired by the phrase “she wore her scars like armor.” Through handcrafted metalwork and flowing textiles, Chapman explores how strength and vulnerability…
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Sam Jiang on Masculinity, Tailoring and Finding His Voice as a Designer
For Sam Jiang, He’s Ready is more than an exploration of menswear. Developed at Kingston School of Art, the collection is rooted in a personal journey from Beijing to London and in the process of understanding who he is and who he wants to become. Through tailoring, deconstruction and floral details, Jiang creates a vision…
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From Lines to Language: Inside Sohyun Jeon’s Dermal Script
For Sohyun Jeon, fashion grew from a desire to tell stories in a more tangible way. Before studying fashion design in New York, she trained as a graphic designer in South Korea, focusing on motion graphics. She loved the way design could communicate through line, composition, colour, and movement. Over time, however, she became interested…
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Elisabed Amiredjibi on Fashion, Memory, and the Fight for Georgia
For Georgian designer Elisabed Amiredjibi, fashion serves a purpose beyond aesthetics. Through clothing, she preserves memory, documents political realities, and protects cultural identity. Her collection, Fight or Flight, emerged from a deeply personal struggle with distance, belonging, and the events unfolding in her homeland. Developed at Parsons School of Design in New York, the collection…
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Yinghan Qian is Turning Memory Into Fossils and Clothes Into Artifacts
In A Second Without Inertia, designer Yinghan Qian treats fashion as a form of imaginative archaeology, where garments become relics, memory becomes material, and identity is something continually reconstructed rather than fixed. In A Second Without Inertia, Yinghan Qian approaches fashion less as clothing in the conventional sense and more as a perceptual field: a…
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This Designer Rebuilt the Suit to Show That Masculinity Can Be Soft
For London-based designer Ping Chen, the classic suit is more than a symbol of tradition. It’s a starting point for rethinking masculinity, and rebuilding it with care. His graduate collection, Thing in Itself, grew from a personal question: Can masculinity come from tenderness, not control? Inspired by memories of his great-grandfather and grounded in cultural…
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Why Becca Flood Treats Fashion Like an Essay
Becca Flood approaches fashion through a reflective and narrative-driven lens. Her latest collection, Poseur ou Pionnier, is rooted in inquiry rather than resolution: what does it mean to be authentic in an industry shaped by performance and visibility? “I realized I didn’t want to design answers,” she says. “I wanted to design the question.” This idea…
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Runtan Du: Fashion as Storytelling and Worldbuilding
Fashion, at its core, is about storytelling, connecting human experiences, cultural histories, and personal identities through fabric and form. Emerging designer Runtan Du embodies this vision powerfully with his latest collection, “Undefined Deity.” A recent graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Du sees fashion not simply as clothing, but as a tool to explore complex, universal narratives of human…
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A Dance Between Worlds: Exploring the Deep Reflections in Yumu’s Designs
In the bustling domain of the fashion industry, where trends can be as fleeting as a midsummer’s night dream, Yumu stands as a beacon of timeless beauty and intricate craftsmanship. Delicately balancing the profound wisdom of Eastern Taoist philosophy and the rebellious spirit of Western deconstructive architecture, Yumu crafts pieces that are as much a…
