Designers

Hanah Specially-commissioned designer for fashion weeks in New York, Seoul, Busan, and a number of cities in China; Founder and Artistic Director of the high-end womenswear designer brand the hanah; awarded “Most Valuable Designer” and “Best Emerging Designer” and many more; appointed as the representative of Chinese designers at the Asia Model Festival; one of the Top 10 Designers in 2017; topped the list of “The Most Popular and Hottest Designers in Guangdong” according to the big data of Toutiao (a Chinese news and information content platform); Vice-President of the Guangdong Fashion Designers Association.   Brand: the hanah the hanah, an independent fashion label founded by international Chinese-South Korean fashion designer Han Yinyue, seeks to convey women’s hope for a better future. Featuring luxury from simplicity and striving for excellence, the high-end womenswear designer brand breaks away from the traditional concept of luxury with its bespoke service and designs luxury products that are accessible to the masses, enabling more women to truly experience a sense of prestige and appreciate the ultimate beauty of the designs.  

Angus Tsui During his study of Fashion Design at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom and Fashion Design and Development at the Hong Kong Design Institute, Tsui was inspired to bridge high fashion with sustainability. Working closely with upcycling pioneers Orsola de Castro and Ada Zanditon in London, he learned the craft of sustainable design techniques and continues to incorporate these into his works today.   Brand: ANGUS TSUI With environmental sustainability at the core, Angus Tsui established an eponymous label ANGUS TSUI in 2014, whose collections are known for their futuristic, avant-garde, and otherworldly qualities in the industry. ANGUS TSUI was selected among the Top 100 Designers by JOOR x NJAL 100 Project in 2020 and honoured with a Bronze Award at the DFA Design for Asia Awards in 2017. Through collaborations with leading brands in Hong Kong, Angus Tsui’s educational charity project ANCares organises workshops, seminars, and exhibitions on the topic of sustainability, securing the label’s standing as a pioneer in sustainable fashion.  

Simon Kuong Vice-President of the Macau Fashion Designer Association, and holds computing and business management degrees from King’s College London and Kingston University. Having grown up in the family clothing business, he has a keen interest in design and once worked as a web designer and graphic designer, and various roles in garment manufacturing, production, research and development. Simon founded ANIFA in 2017, and is committed to adding high-tech materials, art and functionality to fashion design. The brand concept is to create the most stunning functional clothing of the future.   Brand：ANIFA ANIFA will be the first to embrace the latest changes. We can already foresee future clothing which will be designed by AI machines, produced by 3D printing, and delivered to your doorstep by autonomous drones. We can also foresee the future lifestyle of globetrotting entrepreneurs and creative workers who demand the most versatile, smart and comfortable activewear clothing that blurs the boundaries of traditional fashion categories. ANIFA is more than clothing. It is an experiment in futuristic lifestyles.    

Eillen Cao Eillen Cao completed her degree in Bespoke Tailoring and Visual Merchandising at the University of the Arts London. During her stay in Britain, she worked for Welsh & Jefferies, a bespoke tailoring shop based in Savile Row, London. Later, she joined the Design and R&D Department of EXCEPTION. Leveraging her 12 years of overseas study and work experience related to fashion, she set up this studio with an aim to integrate design ideas abroad more closely into our everyday life.   Brand：Ininformal Founded in 2018, Ininformal is a studio dedicated to combining the craft of haute couture with ready-to-wear pieces in its growth and exploration. It targets the new generation of female white-collar workers, providing them with quality clothing to showcase their personal charm and the best version of themselves despite the fast pace of modern life. Its offerings are easy to wear and are characterised by a simple style and a sense of individuality. The team has multi-cultural background and always seeks inspiration from their diverse cultural backgrounds and histories for their design.  

Demi Ding Demi Ding graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design, and worked as a graphic design instructor in various educational centres. She took the “Diploma Programme in Fashion Design and Manufacture” at the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre (CPTTM). After graduation, she was invited to join the CPTTM Fashion Incubation Programme (MaConsef), responsible for the design of clothing series and patterns. She won many awards in fashion design competitions in Mainland China and Macao, and founded her own fashion design brand “Demi*D” in 2020.   Brand：Demi*D Demi*D symbolises popular, fun-loving, independent, mature and strong women, with a simple sunflower pattern designed in the middle of the brand logo. The logo of the brand’s diffusion line also adopts the sunflower pattern, representing positivity and the courage to pursue one’s dream life. The designer sees the sunflower as a symbol of strength, hoping to bring women the courage to face the pressure of contemporary life as well as positive thinking.

Jack Cai Director of the Guangdong Fashion Designers Association, Top 10 Fashion Designer in Guangdong, Top 10 Childrenswear Designer in Foshan, Guangdong, CEO of Guangzhou Sanyousan Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and founder of BNS, an independent designer brand.   Brand ：BNS We like digging into all those that are unconventional, unreasonable, unlikely to happen or exist; anything that is uncertain or unpredictable amazes us in our fashion design. Each step we take along the way of exploration leads us to more interesting ideas. What we want to create is something “fascinating”, something featured with exceptional optimism, self-awareness, wit and humour.