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Haizhen Wang

Haizhen Wang is a contemporary womenswear label based in London, launching in January 2010. Originality and craftsmanship inspired the first collection for SS11 whilst the overall ethos behind the brand is sophisticated and modern. The designs are wearable, mixing tailoring, luxurious fabrics and signature prints to create elegant daytime and evening pieces. Before launching the brand Haizhen Wang, Haizhen previously worked for Handwritten, adopted his love for tailoring at All Saints, designed and pattern cut at Boudicca, all after working in Italy as a designer at Max Mara. Haizhen Wang gained an MA(Hons) in Womenswear Fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Following this long training experience it seemed only natural for Haizhen to launch his own brand.

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Laura Theiss

With a background in business studies, Lithuanian-born knitwear designer Laura Theiss graduated in 2009 from Central St Martins and is now dividing herself between Germany and the UK.

Her graduation collection ‘the world, the flesh and the devil’ shows her signature style and structural and patterning potential: the designer creates new juxtapositions of shapes and fabrics by pleating, layering and twisting the knits of her dresses and opting for an unusual mix of colours, coming up with high contrasts, interesting volumes and sporty but sensual pieces.

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Lee Lapthorne

After Graduating with an MA in textiles Lapthorne launched his self-named fashion label in 2009. Using his expertise, passion, creativity and cutting edge approach Lapthorne creates one-off memorizing prints, translating them into his range of wearable unisex garments.

Lee has been described by design week magazine as one of the countries hottest creative talents in its annual list of the 50 most important people in fashion and design today and was included in the first 100 of the Observer/Courvoiser’s top 500 next generation individuals.

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Makin Jan Ma

Makin Jan Ma, originally from Hong Kong, moved to London at the age of 19 to complete his BA in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. During that period he began to develop his visual language and unique perspective. Upon graduation, feeling the need for further personal development, Makin continued his education in the Royal College of Art in the field of Communication Art. Acknowledging his need to create using various mediums in order to express himself, and the ultimate desire to become a filmmaker, led Makin to produce a number of garments around his latest film idea for an exhibition. The creation of clothes allowed Makin to develop a sensual association with his characters, as well as explore the depth of each character. The unexpected interest in his garments had spontaneously led him to start his own label, guided by the same concept that has led him to that path…

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Rein Vollenga

Rein Vollenga is a Dutch fine artist who after several collaborations and special commissions from performers and fashion labels has launched his first collection of Wearable Sculptures. Still very much grounded in his fine art practice all his pieces are meticulously hand sculpted and exists only as unique Haute Couture pieces. His current collection is using forms taken from insect anatomy and car parts merging the organic with the highly artificial.

Previous clients include among others Mugler, Lady Gaga, New Power Studio, 2NE1 and Hanayo. Apart from exhibiting his sculptures in galleries and museums his Wearable Sculptures have been shown during the London and Paris Fashion Weeks and featured in Dazed, i-D, LOVE, Vogue Homme Japan, GQ Style, Showstudio, and Style.com.

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Zeynep Tosun

Born in Istanbul, Zeynep Tosun studied Business Administration and continued her academic training in Italy-Milan at ‘Istituto di Marangoni’ by studying fashion design where she also attended summer-school. During her masters degree studies she took illustration, digital fashion, and pattern and fashion history classes. Soon as she graduated and held her first fashion show in London on July 2006 and was offered a job from Alberta Ferretti and moved to Rimini. In September 2008 she established her own brand. She won Elle Style Awards, and she showed her collection 3 times in IFW (Istanbul Fashion Week) At the present, she designs custom-made haute couture outfits as well working on her ready-to-wear collection.

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