Painting

Leong Man Teng: the Macao designer-painter who stitches painting into fashion through GELÉE

Leong Man Teng

Leong Man Teng (also using the English name Esther Leong), born in Macao in 1985, is a fashion designer and painter and the founder of the personal label GELÉE. She holds a BFA and an MFA (Western painting) from National Taiwan Normal University and trained in fashion design and manufacture at the Macao Productivity and Technology Transfer Center (CPTTM). She founded GELÉE in 2014, naming it after the French word for "jelly," with a focus on avant-garde, artistic womenswear. As a working painter she folds her own garment designs into her canvases, moving between art and utility — one of the few Macao creatives equally at home in fashion and painting.