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Macau's Fashion & Design Forces
Macau's art rosters long held only painters and visual artists, with no place for fashion or graphic designers. This series gathers the creators carrying Macau design abroad: [Lalaismi Wai](person:lalaismi-wai), whose label POURQUOI showed at Paris TRANOÏ; [Tramy Lui](person:tramy-lui), whose studio TICK.DESIGN won an iF Design Award; [Cordova / Kou Sio Long](person:kou-sio-long), whose bespoke menswear brand Cordova won repeated Cultural Affairs Bureau support; and [Leong Man Teng](person:leong-man-teng), whose brand GELÉE fuses fashion with painting.
The Designers the Rosters Left Out
Macau's lists of notable people never lacked painters and visual artists; what they lacked were fashion and graphic designers. Yet it was these designers who carried Macau's name into Paris fashion fairs, international design awards and local creative-grant programmes. This series puts them back on the list.
Fashion Going Abroad
Lalaismi Wai
韋展尚 · Lalaismi WaiLalaismi Wai (韋展尚) is a Macao fashion designer and founder of the personal label POURQUOI. Trained in fashion design at Shih Chien University (Kaohsiung) and ESMOD Beijing, she named the brand after the French word for "why" and built it around playful, detail-rich made-to-order womenswear. In 2016 she brought the label to TRANOÏ during Paris Fashion Week, and she was repeatedly selected for the Cultural Affairs Bureau's fashion sample-making subsidy — one of the figures carrying Macao's new-generation fashion design onto an international stage.Read profile → founded the personal label POURQUOI; trained at Shih Chien University in Taiwan and ESMOD Beijing, she showed a collection at the Paris TRANOÏ fashion fair and won repeated Cultural Affairs Bureau sample-making subsidies.
