HONG KONG, Feb 4, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Four Hong Kong fashion labels will launch collections at London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2020, showcasing the city's fashion creativity to industry elites and style influencers from around the world. The presentation is part of the Fashion Hong Kong promotion campaign organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and sponsored by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region*.

The HKTDC will stage the Fashion Hong Kong show and host a cocktail reception at Somerset House (East Wing Galleries) in London at 8.30pm (United Kingdom time) on 14 February. Incorporating art installations, drama, music and performance art, the presentation will explore Hong Kong's multifaceted creativity.

The designer line-up illustrates Hong Kong's diverse and vibrant fashion landscape. The designers are Angus Tsui (brand name: ANGUS TSUI), Bettie Jiang (brand name: Bettie), Jessica Lau & Walter Kong (brand name: Blind by JW) and Yeung Chin (brand name: YEUNG CHIN).

Return to London Fashion Week

Fashion Hong Kong, a series of international promotions organised by the HKTDC to raise the global profile of the city's fashion designers and labels, has showcased Hong Kong's unique, diverse designs in international fashion weeks and renowned events since 2015. This is the third year Fashion Hong Kong has taken the city's brands to London Fashion Week in addition to covering fashion capitals such as New York, Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai.

Multipronged promotion for Hong Kong fashion design

Fashion Hong Kong is collaborating with several lifestyle brands and artists to promote the campaign during London Fashion Week. Partners include Hong Kong online creative platform StoryTeller and fashion illustrator Ashbee Wong, who has crafted an exclusive illustration for the campaign.

Hong Kong start-up ShirtStylist.com, an online platform for custom shirt-making, is creating another exclusive and stylish series of Fashion Hong Kong shirts employing fabrics used by the four designers in their 2020 Autumn/Winter collections.

Daycraft – which features original designs with a passion for the arts, design and lifestyle – has collaborated with Fashion Hong Kong for the third time to produce a limited-edition diary celebrating Fashion Hong Kong's participation at London Fashion Week. The diary features unique cover designs created by the participating designers. Other collaborating Hong Kong brand partners include ditto ditto, CHOCOLAT-IER and Acumen Paper.

Fashion Hong Kong designer labels at London Fashion Week AW20:
Photo download: https://bit.ly/31oH4jY

– Angus Tsui
Brand: ANGUS TSUI

Designer and brand profile
Angus Tsui founded his brand in 2014 to bridge high fashion with sustainability. Mr Tsui has garnered various awards such as the 2017 DFA Design for Asia Awards (Bronze), 2017 EcoChic Design Awards (Common Objective Prize) and 2014 Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award. Working closely with upcycling pioneers Orsola de Castro and Ada Zanditon in London, Mr Tsui also established his own charity project, ANCares, coordinating workshops, exhibitions, seminars and workshops on sustainability with NGOs such as Friends of the Earth, Redress and St James Settlement. Other international partners include Swire Properties, Cathay Pacific and H&M.

Autumn/Winter 2020 Collection: ("Home" in Morse code)
Riding the boundaries of fashion and futurism, the new collection is inspired by an original apocalyptic story about the future of humans. The designer transcends traditional silhouettes with unique pattern cuttings, exquisite fabric textures, metallic colours and trims to create otherworldly artistic expressions. The concept of interchangeable design with a sense of sustainability is also introduced.

– Bettie Jiang
Brand: Bettie

Designer and brand profile
Ms Jiang studied fashion design and surface textiles at the London College of Fashion in the University of the Arts London. She has comprehensive knowledge of fabrics and concept-interpretation skills that she always honours in the salient details of fabric in her collections. Combining the use of natural fibre and eco-friendly fabric, Ms Jiang's fashions link customers to sustainable living. Before she founded her namesake label, Ms Jiang participated in the design of Alexander McQueen's Summer/Spring 2009 collection and helped create McQueen's signature skull pattern.

Autumn/Winter 2020 Collection: AWAKEN
Ms Jiang's first womenswear collection, AWAKEN is inspired by simple geometry. With squares representing principles and circles manifesting the wisdom of life, the collection highlights the unique personalities of women being both tender and tough, through the special cutting and the fabric choice of wool and silk. The designer envisions empowering women to freely express themselves and not to shy away from their distinct personalities.

– Jessica Lau & Walter Kong
Brand: Blind by JW

Designer and brand profile:
The designer duo Jessica Lau and Walter Kong founded Blind by JW in 2012. Ms Lau had previously worked with several luxury fashion houses including Alexander McQueen in London, John Galliano in Paris and Diane von Furstenberg in New York. She was named "Best Emerging Fashion Designer 2009" in London by creative group Artstalker. Walter Kong was named Overall Champion at the Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers' Contest in 2007.

Autumn/Winter 2020 Collection: YOUR GAME IS BIGGER THAN YOUR REALITY
Inspired by the cultural diversity and hustle and bustle of the designers' hometown, Hong Kong, the collection starts with a tough and strong city look in a cold vibe, infusing elements of British tailored jackets and padded coats using tartan Scottish wool silk and new checked double knitted jerseys, with a modernised shifted mandarin collar paired with Asian wrapped trousers. Creative, contemporary transformation of some classic, typical designs using eco-friendly yarn made of pre-consumed wool and recyclable polyester is also involved. Their unique scarf design with QR codes lets city travellers access worldwide landmark maps.

– Yeung Chin
Brand: YEUNG CHIN

Designer and brand profile:
Yeung Chin won the Top Creative Award and Special Mention Award respectively at the 2003 and 2009 Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers' Contest and established his brand YEUNG CHIN in 2013. Mr Yeung presented his collections at fashion week events in Milan, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing from 2015 to 2017 and debuted at London Fashion Week in 2019. He has also held exhibitions at the UK Cheers Exhibition, Singapore Design Centre, Hong Kong Heritage Museum and Hong Kong Asia Society Gallery among others.

Autumn/Winter 2020 Collection: YOU BRING LIGHT TO THE DARKESS
Is death grief of separation or hope for reunion? Inspired by the funeral of the designer's beloved, the collection will be showcased in the format of a theatre performance, leading the audience to reflect on life and death and the aesthetics and cultures of funerals step-by-step. The designer re-interprets the concept of funerals by combining funeral elements of different cultures such as music and costumes – the oriental cutting deconstructed with a Victorian corset created in a symmetrical and conscious silhouette, with a diverse mix of fabric choices of different textures and weights.

Main event:
Fashion Hong Kong Fashion Presentation & Cocktail Reception
Date: 14 February 2020 (Friday)
Time: 9pm-10:30pm (media preview starts at 8:30pm)
Venue: Somerset House (East Wing Galleries), Strand, London WC2R 1LA
RSVP: fashion_hongkong@wearevillage.com

Fashion Hong Kong website: www.fashionhongkong.com
Fashion Hong Kong Instagram: @hktdcfashionhk

* Disclaimer: the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organizers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Communications and Creative Industries Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau, Create Hong Kong, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.

About HKTDC

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is a statutory body established in 1966 to promote, assist and develop Hong Kong's trade. With 50 offices globally, including 13 in Mainland China, the HKTDC promotes Hong Kong as a two-way global investment and business hub. The HKTDC organises international exhibitions, conferences and business missions to create business opportunities for companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in the mainland and international markets. The HKTDC also provides up-to-date market insights and product information via trade publications, research reports and digital news channels. For more information, please visit: http://www.hktdc.com/aboutus. Follow us on Twitter @hktdc and LinkedIn.

Contact:
Snowy Chan, Tel: +852 2584 4525, Email: snowy.sn.chan@hktdc.org
Agnes Wat, Tel: +852 2584 4554, Email: agnes.ky.wat@hktdc.org

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HONG KONG, Jan 24, 2020 – (ACN Newswire) – Three leading Hong Kong fashion designer brands will take part in the Fashion Hong Kong runway show at New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2020 in February. The runway parade, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), will feature 36 unique creations, showcasing Hong Kong's fashion vibrancy to industry elites and style influencers from the United States and around the world.

Launching their Fall/Winter 2020 collections at the runway show on 6 February (Eastern Standard Time) will be Harrison Wong (brand name: HARRISON WONG), design duo Lary Cheung and Yi Chan (brand name: HEAVEN PLEASE+), who return to the show for the third consecutive year, and debut designer Sun Lam (brand name: SUN=SEN). An after-show event – Fashion Hong Kong Night, sponsored by Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region* – will enable the young designers to network with high-profile fashion industry players.

B2B showroom to facilitate business exchange

Fashion Hong Kong is a series of international promotions organised by the HKTDC to raise the global profile of Hong Kong fashion designers and brands. Since 2015, Fashion Hong Kong has been staging world-class runway shows at major international fashion events, including New York Fashion Week, London Fashion Week, Copenhagen Fashion Week and Tokyo Fashion Week, showcasing the skills and creativity of Hong Kong's fashion designers in overseas markets.

To further promote the city's fashion brands and foster exchange and collaboration between Hong Kong designers and international buyers, the HKTDC will run the Fashion Hong Kong Showroom from 4 February to 5 March at FTL Moda, a major wholesale showroom located on New York's Seventh Avenue, also known as "Fashion Avenue."

In addition to the three designer brands showcased at the runway show, 10 other emerging Hong Kong fashion accessories and apparel brands will be featured in the Fashion Hong Kong showroom, including: ARTO., Charlotte Ng Studio, Invisibilis Movere, KKLUE, MIDNIGHT FACTORY, WHOSTHAT, made of pearl, Verdandi House, les amis, and Maria Conti.

Fashion Hong Kong designers at New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2020:
Photo download: http://bit.ly/36chn6L

– Harrison Wong
Brand: HARRISONWONG

Designer and brand profile
Harrison Wong, designer and founder of HARRISON WONG LIMITED, made his fashion debut by winning both the Hong Kong Young Designer's Contest and the Grand Prix Contest in Japan. In 2014, Harrison Wong entered a new chapter by opening his first retail shop in Hong Kong. Now the label is expanding internationally and has been found in selected high-profile shops in different locations such as L'ECLAIREUR in Paris and Harvey Nichols in Hong Kong.

Fall/Winter 2020 Collection: Abstract Composition
Harrison Wong's namesake label is known for simple, structured lines yet dramatic look. For his FW2020 collection, Harrison Wong returns to his fascination with abstract visual art, inspired to create a new style through a creative combination of classic tailoring, denim and workwear. The influence of abstraction comes through in unexpected deconstruction, patchwork, and dynamic colour blocking. The use of matte and glossy fabrics serves to provide heightened contrast in this new collection.

– Lary Cheung and Yi Chan
Brand: HEAVEN PLEASE+

Designers and brand profile
Lary Cheung and Yi Chan graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. They founded the brand HEAVEN PLEASE+ in 2011 and launched their initial collection in 2012. The designer duo are devoted to applying their experiences beyond the fashion industry, including art, music and literature. The brand has had the opportunity to design several costumes for Hong Kong artists and large-scale events including the Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation. HEAVEN PLEASE+ opened its first retail location in Tsim Sha Tsui in 2013, which was subsequently chosen by the Hong Kong Louis Vuitton City Guide as one of the recommended fashion stores to visit in 2017.

Fall/Winter 2020 Collection: GIRL, YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON
By applying different design variations on each of their pieces, Lary Cheung and Yi Chan wish to bring individuality to simple clothing. Their FW2020 collection was purposefully chosen to present the idea of a modern woman. Inspired by the Princess of Wales and traditional British royal costumes, the brand transforms elegant details from traditional pieces into modern daily wear.

– Sun Lam
Brand: SUN=SEN

Designer and brand profile
Coming from a family with a garment-industry background, SUN=SUN's founder and creative director Sun Lam seeks to work with something unexpected and fun, with the intention of bringing these elements into the traditional clothing industry. In 2013, she won the Encouragement Prize in the 3rd International Ubiquitous Digital Fashion Design Contest organised by the Korean Society for Clothing Industry. She later went to the United Kingdom to earn a master's degree in Fashion Design. Her graduate collection was chosen as a finalist in the iD Dunedin International Emerging Designer Award 2016 and was selected to participate in a showcase at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Ms Lam was later selected as one of the black sheep designers for the NotJustaLabel, and in 2017 was chosen as an Emerging Talent for the Paris TRANOI show.

Fall/Winter 2020 Collection: I SWEAR I'M A NICE GHOST
SUN=SEN always hopes to use garments to spread a sense of optimism to the world. Her FW2020 collection is inspired by an alien character called Nice Ghost, aiming to encourage people to express themselves and break through social stereotypes. The collection will combine space and girl fashion elements and continues with the brand's signature double sleeves and multi-wear silhouettes.

Main Events:
Fashion Hong Kong Runway Show
Time: 11am on 6 February 2020 (Thursday)
Venue: Gallery 1 at Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, Floor 6, New York
RSVP: fashionhongkong@agentrypr.com

Fashion Hong Kong Night (Sponsored by CreateHK*)
Time: 5pm on 6 February 2020 (Thursday)
Venue: Mr. Purple Hotel Indigo, Lower East Side, 171 Ludlow Street, New York
(By invitation only)

Fashion Hong Kong Showroom
Date: 4 February to 5 March 2020 (By appointment)
Venue: FTL Moda, 525 7th Avenue, Suite 1007, New York
Appointment requests: nicoletta@ilarianiccolini.com

Fashion Hong Kong website: www.fashionhongkong.com
Fashion Hong Kong Instagram: @hktdcfashionhk, #fashion_hongkong

* Disclaimer: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project only, and does not otherwise take part in the project. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials/events (or by members of the project team) are those of the project organizers only and do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Communications and Creative Industries Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau, Create Hong Kong, the CreateSmart Initiative Secretariat or the CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.

About HKTDC

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is a statutory body established in 1966 to promote, assist and develop Hong Kong's trade. With 50 offices globally, including 13 in Mainland China, the HKTDC promotes Hong Kong as a two-way global investment and business hub. The HKTDC organises international exhibitions, conferences and business missions to create business opportunities for companies, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in the mainland and international markets. The HKTDC also provides up-to-date market insights and product information via trade publications, research reports and digital news channels. For more information, please visit: http://www.hktdc.com/aboutus. Follow us on Twitter @hktdc and LinkedIn.

Contact:
Snowy Chan, Tel: +852 2584 4525, Email: snowy.sn.chan@hktdc.org
Agnes Wat, Tel: +852 2584 4554, Email: agnes.ky.wat@hktdc.org

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