Dong Liang was the first to carry the brand in Also since she studied textiles at CSM, her requirements for fabrics are quite high. My team spent two weeks making that dress and was still adding various sizes of bows and organzas onto it hours before the show started. For example, the pattern of a dress will be changed many times before production to adapt to the body shape, to show the right body parts, and cover the parts that a girl feels most insecure about. So many of my classmates, who are children of Hong Kong businessmen, carried Vuitton bags for class. A big fan of John Galliano, the first luxury item Chen ever acquired was a pair of Dior earrings her cousin bought her in Singapore.

Lyu was born in Chongqing, and studied in Australia, Japan, the U. Her spring collection features beautifully beaded flapper-dress-like body accessories made of flawed industrial materials such as resin and Perspex she acquired cheaply from Chinese factories; leftovers from previous projects, some given by brands like Swarovski, and unwanted rubber tubes she took from Parsons School of Design that had been sitting in the corner of the studio for years. Lyu said her zero-waste approach to design is not aiming to create a percent sustainable brand, but was a pragmatic and resourceful way to simply get the collection done amid lockdown. She spent days and nights doing beading and embroidery work and found serenity while doing it.

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