Yayi Chen is a fashion designer whose work combines clothing, performance and film.
Raised between Spain and China, she studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, with an exchange at Central Saint Martins, and worked at The Row and Thom Browne. Her collection in tran · sient, created with artist Cathy Mou, examines the overlooked labouring body of women in the Chinese immigrant community in Europe, and earned her Emerging Fashion Designer of the Year at the 2019 International Design Awards.
Read in Luminaries: Labour, Migration and the Restaurant Interior
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