Textile

INTERVIEW | Yixuan Nie

INTERVIEW | Yixuan Nie

Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.

INTERVIEW | Ollie Hongji Li

INTERVIEW | Ollie Hongji Li

Ollie Hongji Li is a fiber artist and textile designer based in New York City. Drawing inspiration from nature and religion, Ollie creates textile sculpture using knotting, knitting, crocheting, spinning, and natural dye. Ollie's art reinterprets the traditional yin-yang dichotomy and offers a new perspective on gender roles.

INTERVIEW | Huiya Zhang

INTERVIEW | Huiya Zhang

Huiya Zhang is an independent fashion designer based in China, and the founder and planner of the fashion creative platform H.Y FASHION STUDIO. Her clothing design language integrates emotional narrative and material experimentation, dedicated to breaking the shackles of perfectionism and constructing a genuine and powerful visual expression between softness and imbalance.

INTERVIEW | Hsin Hwang

INTERVIEW | Hsin Hwang

Hsin Hwang is a Taiwanese visual artist whose practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, and installation art. Deeply influenced by fairy tales, mysticism, and Jungian psychology, her work draws from dream imagery, faith, and personal experiences to depict inner spiritual landscapes. Her work serves as a process of self-inquiry and as a healing force.

INTERVIEW | Yicong Li

INTERVIEW | Yicong Li

Yicong Li is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Beijing, China, currently based in Chicago. Li's artistic vision merges influences from her diverse cultural background. She pushes the boundaries of fashion through masquerades and sculptural forms that interact with the body. She collaborates with local artists and designers and showcases her work in numerous exhibitions globally.

INTERVIEW | Zeyang Xu

INTERVIEW | Zeyang Xu

Zeyang Xu has a strong interest in sustainable fashion and is committed to exploring eco-friendly materials to make a positive impact on the industry. She is also attuned to contemporary trends, seamlessly blending both Eastern and Western aesthetics into her works. She is committed to expanding her creative practice, blending diverse mediums and cultural influences.

INTERVIEW | Mingxuan Zhang

INTERVIEW | Mingxuan Zhang

Mingxuan Zhang's artistic practice centres on the fluidity and de-symbolisation of the body, exploring the complex relationship between the body, space, and gaze through distortion and absence. She creatively incorporates ready-made fabrics from the real world into her paintings, capturing the transition between the “virtual” and the “real.” She currently lives between London and Hong Kong.

INTERVIEW | Anastasia Egonyan

INTERVIEW | Anastasia Egonyan

Anastasia Egonyan is a visual artist of Ukrainian and Armenian descent based in Berlin. With over a decade of experience in photography, she has expanded her practice to incorporate textiles and found objects, creating a dynamic interdisciplinary approach. Her art reflects a journey of reconciling fragmented ancestry and nomadic experiences in the search for "home" and identity.

INTERVIEW | Ruihong Liu

INTERVIEW | Ruihong Liu

Ruihong Liu, a Chinese-born artist now based in New York, delves into the fragility and significance of memories in her art. Acknowledging that memories are transient and susceptible to the tumultuous currents of life, Liu creates garments and installations characterized by their soft and intimate qualities, aiming to safeguard and reveal these precious fragments.

INTERVIEW | Zihao Zhou

INTERVIEW | Zihao Zhou

Zihao Zhou is a Chinese fashion designer based in London. His art explores the connections between the macro and the micro, revealing the hidden wonders of the world. In 2024, he took a leap of faith and launched his own eponymous brand, Illogic, in London. With a blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetics, Zihao aims to carve his unique mark in the fashion industry.

INTERVIEW | Rosie Zirou Zhang

INTERVIEW | Rosie Zirou Zhang

Rosie Zirou Zhang is a fashion and textile designer based in New York City, with a strong focus on womenswear and weaving. Central to her creative process is the harmonious interplay of textures and colors, a signature element evident throughout her work. Her unique approach involves crafting her own fabrics and exploring the communication between fashion and fine art.

INTERVIEW | Angel Jiaqi Qin

INTERVIEW | Angel Jiaqi Qin

Angel Jiaqi Qin is a post-human image weaver. Having lived and studied in Rochester, New York, Beijing, and London, Angel's practice seeks out an exploration of disruptions in the otherwise straight, smooth, and flat narratives. She weaves patterns of imagery from a non-human-centric perspective, questioning the ontological nature of humanity and its relationship with ecology.

INTERVIEW | Ruoyan Er

INTERVIEW | Ruoyan Er

Ruoyan Er is an artist in the fashion realm, specializing in draping, garment construction, and textiles. As a storytelling designer, she skillfully uses design to convey emotions, serving as a visual language narrator. She merges natural textures with fashion aesthetics, integrating the unique qualities weathering brings. Each fabric tells a story of time passing, and her designs echo the wonders of continuous change and rebuilding.

INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning

INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning

Chelsea Ning is a photographer and textile designer currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. She is grappling with subtle feelings based on the ideas of dissonance, self-identity, concealment, displacement, isolation, and nostalgia in her work. Chelsea has been interested in different ways of media based on visual expressions, including film installations, paintings, and prints.

INTERVIEW | Jackie Jiang

INTERVIEW | Jackie Jiang

Jackie Jiang is a Chinese Designer and Multi-Media Artist whose work often features a unique blend of traditional paper-making techniques and contemporary ink and acrylic artistry. Through her evocative works, she masterfully merges Eastern artistic traditions with Western influences, forging a path that celebrates cultural heritage while embracing the spirit of innovation.

INTERVIEW | Devika Pararasasinghe

INTERVIEW | Devika Pararasasinghe

Devika Pararasasinghe is currently living and working in London by trade as an artist and writer. Her practice deals with[in] the working-class [invisible]-labour ecosystem[s] and [invisible]-reproductive labours, giving into the visuals between low-fi and high-art aesthetic scenarios. In addition, writing for Devika is an act of monological autonomy and re-narrativising.

INTERVIEW | Sitong Yin

INTERVIEW | Sitong Yin

Sitong Yin is a Chinese artist and the granddaughter of a tailor. She is primarily a fiber artist and works around fiber and textiles, installations, and performance, currently based in Chicago, IL. Her work explores translations between materials, places, and cultures and the poetic and spiritual moments revealed in the gaps of translations.

INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi

INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi

Judit Bodrogi, a textile artist from Budapest, uses yarn like other artists use their pencils, drawing on canvas with needle and yarn. Her pictures present the pressures placed on us by our own society. Judit often deals with these deep topics through her own emotions, working and processing her own traumas throughout the art.

INTERVIEW | Deborah Kruger

INTERVIEW | Deborah Kruger

Deborah Kruger’s latest artwork focuses on the tragic losses of the 21st century, specifically the impacts of human-induced climate change and habitat fragmentation on bird extinction. Kruger hopes that her environmental artwork invites dialogue about the importance of preserving wild spaces, animals, especially vulnerable birds, and protecting habitat for all species, including humans.

INTERVIEW | Paula Fernández López

INTERVIEW | Paula Fernández López

Paula Fernández López is a Spanish designer, born in Seville in 2002. Paula's works of art focus on the creative process's conceptual basis. It allows one to get a free interpretation of her designs, which norms and standards show very clearly and identify aesthetics. Ripped textures, a short neutral color palette, and an avant-garde style are the main elements that make her different and define her as an artist.