Hua Has Created Designs For Chinese Artists Like Zhou Chunya, Yue Minjun, Ding Yi
Shanghai fashion designer Judy Hua (华娟)
Since establishing her eponymous fashion label in 2004, Shanghai designer Judy Hua (华娟) has gradually built up a respectable following as one of the city’s most promising home-grown talents. After getting past a rough first few years, Hua’s adept networking abilities and skill at navigating Shanghai’s social and arts scenes have paid off, with her company now supplying more than 1,000 B2B clients and Hua creating one-of-a-kind pieces for Chinese contemporary artists like Yue Minjun, Ding Yi, Xue Song and Zeng Hao.
In addition to her haute couture pieces, which are mostly done for well-off Shanghainese women, who Hua says “have no time to focus on fashion, so they give us the job of making them look good,” her company outsources production on uniforms for B2B clients such as government offices and the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
This October, Hua will debut her Spring/Summer 2012 collection at Shanghai Fall Fashion Week. Although Hua has been tight-lipped about the collection, she coyly told reporters that it will involve a design cooperation with “a [famous] artist.” This week, Hua spoke with BundPic about her design philosophy and passion for art. From the interview (translation by Jing Daily team):
Judy Hua Showroom
1F, Building 7, 50 Moganshan Lu, Putuo District, Shanghai
上海市普陀区莫干山路50号7号楼1楼
Tel: +86 21 6266 3449
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