JAMIE WEI HUANG
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Jamie Wei Huang is a contemporary womenswear label which combines conceptual ideas with modern silhouette. The label is founded by Jamie Wei Huang after graduating from Fashion Design Womenswear at Central Saint Martins Art and Design College in London. The start of the label is initiated when her collection was selected as the Top 5 finalists for the international fashion competition Designer for Tomorrow awards. Being the Top 5 finalist, Jamie was personally mentored by Stella McCartney and gained full sponsorship for her 2014 Spring Summer catwalk at the Mercedes Benz Berlin Fashion Week 2013. Shortly after that, she was awarded UKFT’s TAP award enabling her to show her collection at WHITE Milano showroom and the renown Tranoi showroom in Paris. During her studies, she has worked in high-end fashion houses such as Alexander McQueen and Christopher Kane and she is also hired as one of the costume designer and tailor for the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympics’s closing ceremony. Jamie has also been active in the arts industry. In 2009, she was selected as artistic representative for the Societe Nationale Des Beaux at Louve, won Medaille de Bronze at Le Salon 2012 Societe Des Artistes Francais and was the finalist of the Taiwan National Large-sized oil Paintings Competition. Her background became her foundation in developing contemporary fashion and concept building, and also appearing in her signature elements in design details and silhouette.
The label is based on the principle of bringing out the character in contemporary women. The ideas of fashion is the language of exploration the inner self by materials and silhouette, developing the concept of garments but refine it in cutting and details. The essential components of the label is simplistic with clean refined outline, masculine in a way into details. The label Jamie Wei Huang is to create the idea of the present women herself by developing new ideas of materials and cutting to represent the way of exploring modern women’s character using their own language.
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-Jamie Wei Huang’s collection is based on the development of Op Art – an art form that plays with geometric forms and irritating effects…in other words, it’s pretty AWESOME!!!! It’s FUTURISTIC yet wearable (some pieces) Inspired by Ceramic and Glass to some degree..Check out her s/s 2014 collection and biography. She has worked for both Alexander McQueen and Christopher Kane.