Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
Dijun Sha (Shine Sha) is a London-based multimedia artist, jewellery designer, and curator whose work bridges the gap between traditional craftsmanship, digital innovation, and curatorial storytelling. Dijun’s practice is deeply rooted in narrative-driven creation, transforming jewellery from a wearable object into an interactive, conceptual medium.
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.
Bessy Huang is a visionary creator who breathes life into the realms of mass media. Her artistic voice dances on the edge of the absurd, the fantastical, and the profoundly dramatic. Fascinated by the surreal nuances of everyday life, she weaves compelling narratives through experimental films and intricately crafted set designs.
Ramón González Palazón is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video creation, installation, and filmmaking. His practice seeks to transform real spaces, merging the human and the material, using interactive devices to generate new interpretations of physical environments. In his latest compositions, he reflects on the natural process of atmospheric elements.
YaXi Zhou is a fashion designer. She mostly focuses on the emotional connection with human beings. She has always been committed to sustainable design, and she is currently working on using natural plants for fabric dyeing. Her latest project, Freedom from Shadow, was inspired by people's anxiety regarding their appearance and enables viewers to explore the stories and experiences behind the physical changes.
Hanwei Su is a New York-based fashion designer who attended Parsons and is currently preparing to debut her FW23 collection for her own label during New York Fashion Week in February 2023. The “Wild Growth” collection is a zero-waste collection that is constructed out of leftover pieces of fabric. It is also the designer’s exploration into the emergence of “inorganic creatures” and the spontaneous expansion and inheritance of life.
Shuqi You is a New York-based fashion designer. You's design and art approach is based on a lengthy period of individual experimentation with materials and three-dimensional objects, with an emphasis on media characteristics, technique development, and physical existence. In her current participatory project, Wiegenlied D498, she examined the contradictions between personal memories and immediate circumstances.
Yan Yang is a painter, installation artist, fashion art designer, and textile pattern designer. She is based in Chicago, IL. Yan believes that art and design are connected, and she often combines painting and fashion to create large-scale installations. Her work reflects the psychological healing effect of fashion art on people. Her art series "Standard Smile" hopes to give people the confidence and courage to face trauma and be able to heal.
Zhiling Chen is a New York-based lingerie designer. Born in Suzhou, China, she moved to the United States at the age of 15. She describes her work as a combination of sensuality and rationality by using lines, shapes, blocks of color, and just the right amount of embellishments. She believes that underwear is not just something "under the fashion", but it is an element that can make people feel conformable in their skin.
London-based artist and designer, Basma Alshather has turned her art into fashion. A former ceramicist, her current practice is printmaking. She designs slow and ethical collections of scarves. Her methodology uses hand-painted art, translating it onto textiles using various textures, fibres, and colours. Her art is an expression of the moment that can manifest in different forms, experimental and intuitive and precise with sureness.
Evgeniia Kazarezova is a ceramic designer based in Bratislava, Slovakia. She primarily works with clay as with one of the ancient and natural materials humans worked with. The combination of traditional techniques and modern technologies allows Evgeniia to achieve unobvious results during the design process.
LI MO is a Los Angeles-based fashion and knitwear designer that grew up in Shenzhen province in China. Her works reflect her own experiences and have formed her talented mind and creative vision. It explores the distinctiveness and newness of the world. She characterizes her signature aesthetic through elevating the innovation of spirituality and unique design.
Sotiria Bramou works as a Visual Designer in the city of Athens. She moves and experiments by blurring the lines between visual & wearable art. Sotiria's work deconstructs the dominant social stereotypes and expresses her own values as a worker, as a female, as a designer. She gets inspired by the "abnormal", the "dirty", the "freak", and the "obscene".
Coming from a medical background, YunRay studies fashion design in New York after he finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy in Taiwan. He uses second-hand garments deconstruction, performances, installation, and films to tell the narratives of his vision. He uses his work to speak to social issues, but also human emotions and experiences.
