Author: Stephanie Fang

For Michelle Chu, fashion is more than what we wear. It can become a language for feelings that are difficult to articulate, a way to explore identity, protection, belonging and the distance between how we feel and how we appear. Her editorial Out of Range inhabits that space. Set against open fields and industrial infrastructure…

For Stella Michiko, the relationship between fragility and strength is not about two opposing qualities. Instead, her BA collection explores how the two can exist within the same object, material and person. Based in Paris and completing her BA in Fashion Design at the Iceland University of the Arts, Stella found her starting point in…

For his graduate collection at London College of Fashion, Yuan traces his own family’s history — from his grandparents’ memories of the Cultural Revolution to a hand-built leather globe stitched onto a Zhongshan suit — asking whether a shared, connected future is still something worth believing in.

Somewhere between softness and strength, intimacy and distance, reality and imagination, there is a space that doesn’t need to be explained. It can simply exist. This space became the starting point for In Between Forms, a collaborative fashion editorial that brings together the work of three designers: Songlan Wu, Alice (Tingyu), and Yang Yang Xu.…

For Natali Yegudayev, fashion began at home. Both of her grandmothers used to sew wedding dresses, while her mother passed down a knowledge of handcraft techniques including embroidery, knitting, and hand sewing. At 15, Yegudayev bought her first sewing machine and began experimenting. What started as curiosity gradually became a way of understanding herself and…

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…

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…

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…