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Who are the famous fashion designers in China? ,

The 10 most noteworthy fashion designers in China

Uma Wang Wangzhi "Instagram: @umawangofficial"

Since the launch of his personal namesake brand Uma Wang, Chinese designer Wang Zhi began to show design series on the runways of London, Paris and Milan Fashion Weeks, and was appreciated by key figures in the industry such as Franca Sozzani and Hong Huang. Due to her modern draping techniques and her innovative use of three-dimensional fabrics, she was named a “New Generation Designer Worth Watching” by Italian Vogue and was also awarded the “2011 Audi Enterprising Designer Award", the "Best Designer Award" of the 2010 CCDC China Fashion Design Creative Invitational Competition, the "Best Craftsmanship Award" and the "Best Creativity Award" issued by Shanghai Fashion Week. In 2012, Wang Zhi became the first Chinese designer to be shortlisted for the "CFDA Designers Association/Vogue Magazine Sino-US Exchange Program", meeting the most important experts in the industry and gaining sufficient exposure in the US market.

Wang Zhi studied textile and fashion design at the China Textile University (Donghua University) in Shanghai, and later studied fashion design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Uma

Wang’s overseas sales are very good, and conscientiously, the domestic pricing is slightly lower than overseas.

2. Ziggy Chen Chen Xiang "Instagram: @ziggy_chen"

Ziggy Chen is a men's clothing brand that is popular both inside and outside its walls. It has a relatively high proportion of overseas sales and is very recognized. Ziggy Chen's creative inspiration comes from Shanghai, especially the collision and evolution caused by different cultures: new and old, East and West, classical and modern. This approach echoes the Chinese philosophy of Taoism: Taoist concepts of duality and interdependence. It was this philosophy that greatly fueled his creativity. He also drew much inspiration from photographs of Shanghainese taken between 1900 and 1920. The photos mix images of different cultures and people: workers, monks, herders, soldiers. The lines and casual look of the garments embody the concept of travel, wandering in remote areas and the inspiring power of vast open spaces. Love simplicity and craftsmanship. A style with ancient roots has been overshadowed by a century of turmoil and decades of rapid development. Using fabrics such as wool, linen and linen, plus leather and fine cotton, we create organic clothing with endless energy. The fabric has a certain sturdiness with a classic elegance. Blending modern sensibility with timeless Eastern aesthetics.

3.Yiqing Yin Yin Yiqing "Instagram: @yiqingyin"

Yin Yiqing was born in Beijing in 1985. She left China for France when she was 4 years old and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. She loves sculpture and created many experimental costumes during her student days. She has unique thinking and aesthetics, and she even won the "Grand Prix de la Création" and the "Award of First Collections of the ANDAM"

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International Awards. In 2011, she won the ANDAM Award and participated in the Haute Couture Fashion Week, becoming the first Chinese high-end designer; from 2013 to 2015, she served as the creative director of the Leonard ready-to-wear series; in 2018, she was appointed as the creative director of the fashion industry after 19 years of absence. The manager of the brand Poiret has become a highlight of the 2018 autumn and winter Paris Fashion Week. She founded her personal brand Yiqing

Yin in 2011. In 2014, she received minority equity investment from the French venture capital institution Mode et Finance

. In 2015, the brand was awarded advanced customization title. Her brand's style is sculptural and geometric, and she is adept at using stacked fabrics and outlining threads to create unique, beautiful, dream-like garments with high artistic attainments.

4.Pei Guo Guo Pei 「Instagram: @guopei」

Guo Pei is a well-known fashion designer in China. She has designed dresses for the hosts and performing stars of the Spring Festival Gala for many years, and participated in the design of the awards dresses for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. She was named one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business in 2011" by Fast Company magazine. After graduating from Beijing Second Light Industry School, Guo Pei worked in Chinese state-owned and private garment enterprises for ten years. In 1997, she founded her own fashion brand "Rose Fang" and won the title of China's top ten fashion designers in the same year. She has a workshop of more than 3,000 square meters in 798, Beijing Art District, responsible for customer reception and advanced customization production. She was one of the few Chinese designers selected for last year's Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition "China: Through the Looking Glass."

But it wasn’t until Rihanna appeared on the red carpet of the 2015 Met Gala wearing a haute couture work by Guo Pei Rose that the world realized that there was such an adherent to the spirit of haute couture in China. Guo Pei is the second Chinese designer invited by the French Haute Couture Association to hold a fashion show in Paris, and was selected as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time. She once said that not only is the domestic demand for haute couture increasingly strong, more and more international customers are also coming here.

5. Huishan Zhang Zhang Huishan "Instagram: @huishanzhang"

Huishan Zhang was already famous before graduating from Central Saint Martins in London. Thereafter, he received a master's degree in patternmaking from the school. While in school, he was personally selected by Delphine Arnault to make leather goods. In the end, he chose to work in the Dior Haute Couture workshop. In 2011, he established his personal brand in London.

Zhang Huishan was born and raised in Qingdao, China. He went abroad when he was 17 and has lived in Paris, New Zealand and London. What has most profoundly influenced him are his Chinese characteristics, especially the craftsmanship and design from his motherland, but he has turned these initial inspirations into quintessentially feminine, refined silhouettes through his own global interpretation. In 2011, his debut collection was picked up by Browns, a boutique that also bought the graduation collections of John Galliano and Hussein Chalayan. In 2013, he won the now-defunct Dorchester Collective Fashion Prize. Huishan Zhang aspires to create the next leading Chinese luxury lifestyle brand, not just a fashion brand.

6.SANKUANZ Shangguanzhe "Instagram: @sankuanz_official"

Shangguanzhe graduated from Xiamen University in 2003 with a double major in visual communication and advertising. In the same year, he founded his own brand. He has not received formal fashion education, nor has he worked for a large fashion brand. Like a disruptor who is not restricted by rules and regulations, he entered the fashion circle ignorantly. In Shangguan Zhe's designs, you can see that he directly reflects his observations and thoughts about the world, as well as the imprint and influence the world has on him, on his clothes, expressing them directly through a direct graphic language.

SANKUANZ already has more than 30 retail partners. Joyce, I.T, Galeries Lafayette, 10 Corso Como, and Dongliang have paved its domestic channels, and through the Trading Museum Comme des Gar?ons, Opening

Ceremony, Vfiles, Excelsior and other boutiques sell their designs to Japan, Italy and the United States. The brand's target audience is young people who love music and street culture around the world, but it does not follow the same route as street brands such as Supreme and Palace. SANKUANZ wants to show the face of Chinese young people.

7.Masha Ma Masha "Instagram: @mashamainsta"

After launching her own namesake brand in 2008, Chinese fashion designer Masha

Ma is fashionable The futuristic aesthetic concept quickly attracted attention. This emerging designer has been traveling between Paris and Shanghai for many years, releasing collections at the Paris Fashion Week every year. Several design series have been selected by the Milan fashion boutique project "Spiga 2" founded by Dolce & Gabbana and Hong Kong's Harvey

Nichols bought it. In 2008, Masha received a master's degree in women's wear design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Before graduation, she interned under designers Veronique

Branquinho and Alexander McQueen. Masha, who was still a student, had her graduation collection selected for exhibition by Vauxhall Fashion

Scout and purchased by B

store, a boutique retail store founded by José Neves. Masha has reached the finals in many important competitions, including the 2006 Lanc?me Color Designs Award, the design competition organized by Chloé, and the Puma/Central Saint Martins Scholarship. CSM Bursary Award) and the 2009 Fashion

Fringe Fashion Design Competition. In September 2009, she participated in the 2009 "CCDC China Fashion Design Creativity Competition" and won the "Mouse Ji International Innovation Award".

8.Ma Ke 马克「Website: http://www.wuyong.org/」

“In today’s world, luxury is no longer a luxury, but poverty is the most luxurious "Marco is a very in-depth, independent-thinking fashion designer. Ma Ke was born in Changchun in 1972. At the age of 17, he was admitted to the Department of Arts and Crafts of Suzhou University. At the age of 23, he won the gold medal in the Second China International Youth Brothers Cup Fashion Design Competition with "Qin Terracotta Warriors". In 1995, Marco established "Status Studio" and launched the "Exception" brand. In 2002, Marco became the only Chinese designer invited to participate in the Paris International Fashion Show. In 2007, Ma Ke launched his personal brand "Wuyong"; in 2008, Ma Ke became the first Chinese designer to perform at the finale of Paris Haute Couture Week with the theme of "Luxurious Qing Pin". She once said: When she founded "Exception" in 1996, she discovered that people's aesthetics seek common ground rather than differences, so she wanted to have a unique design that was anti-fashion and anti-public. Marco's "useless" brand redefines luxury: the minimum possession of material things, the most fulfilling and free spiritual life, and no attachment to all worldly desires. I think "Useless" coincides with the concept of some niche artisan brands in the West.

9.WANG PEIYI Wang Peiyi "Weibo: @王凯悂"

Designer Wang Peiyi graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts. He has worked for several large fashion companies of different styles and accumulated rich experience. Business experience. In 2005, a high-end customization studio was established, mainly engaged in customization and leasing business. With its excellent design concept and exquisite craftsmanship, it was quickly recognized in the industry. The style is romantic and beautiful, and can bring out the wearer's temperament. Wang Peiyi's works are often published in domestic first-line fashion media. "VOGUE Clothing and Beauty", "BAZAAR", "ELLE World Fashion Garden", "MARIECLAIRE", "COSMO Fashion Beauty" and many other fashion media have conducted exclusive interviews and reports on her. Many A-list celebrities also love WANG PEIYI's dresses: Cindy Crawford, Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Li Bingbing, Fan Bingbing, Gao Yuanyuan, Zhao Wei, etc.

10.HAIZHEN WANG Wang Haizhen "Instagram: @haizhenwang"

HAIZHEN

WANG was born in Dalian, China, and has been passionate about art and design since he was a child. Wang Haizhen studied fashion design in his hometown of Dalian, and later moved to London and received a master's degree in women's fashion from Central Saint Martins. While receiving formal education in fashion design, he developed a love for tailoring. With his outstanding professional skills, he has worked for the following brands: Handwritten

by Tanya Sarne, All Saints, Boudicca and Max Mara. HAIZHEN

WANG founded his personal brand in 2010 and showed his works at London and Paris Fashion Weeks. His collections are designed with masculinity and personality, with an eye for classic tailoring and precision.