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Introducing Jellycat at Lane Crawford!
2015-06-03 00:00:00.0

Calling For The Next New: The Finalists
As part of its PLATFORM initiative to help nurture and grow emerging talent, Lane Crawford held a call-out for emerging young entrepreneurs, brands and designers to pitch their product or their work for promotion in Lane Crawford stores across Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu and online.

After sifting through reams of inspiring concepts, reading the profiles of endless talented individuals and being wowed by dynamic designs, Lane Crawford is proud to introduce the finalists who represent the creative talent of tomorrow. Projects will be determined over the next 12-18 months for each brand or creative, so keep your eyes peeled for further information.
A Boy Named Sue
Online Boutique
Angel Chen
Womenswear & Menswear
AWÜ
Jewellery
BELLOWS
Sound Production
BOOKNITURE
Product
Calligraphy Girl
Creative
Carmen Chan
Jewellery
Cecilia Ho
Creative
Creature of Creation
3D Printing
Exocet
Accessories
Fengchen Wang
Menswear
ffiXXed
Menswear
Grain Design
Furniture
Heting
Jewellery
ITO
Product
Jan Zhou
Product
Jinjia Hu
Creative
Kris Xu
Accessories
Le Mini Macaron
Beauty Accessories
Memorieslab
Print Production
MIRO
Design
Melville
Fine Jewellery
Jewellery
n i i n
Jewellery
Obellery
Jewellery
QUEST Terrarium
Product
Shine Li
Accessories
SHUSHU/TONG
Womenswear
Sky Yutaka
Architect & Interiors
Teppuanna Ng
Creative
The Bow Tie
Accessories
The World is Your Oyster
Menswear
Threadsmith
Menswear
Victoria Kwong
Creative
VOID Watches
Accessories
Wan Hung Cheung
Menswear
Wingki Kwok
Creative
WMWM
Womenswear
Yirantian
Womenswear

Steven Ma for Creature of Creation

A Boy Named Sue
Online Boutique
Founded by Samantha Wong and Tania Reinert, ABNS is an online platform for sustainable or eco-friendly products from around the globe through creating lifestyle-inspired content. Their goal is simple: “to show that ethics and aesthetics are not mutually exclusive.”
Angel Chen
Womenswear & Menswear
Fashion designer Angel Chen graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014 and gained the attention of the press when she was named one of the Top Five Graduate Designers of the Year by i-D magazine. Now based between London and Shanghai, Chen hopes to channel her romantic but rebellious spirit into a youthful collection for the new generation.
AWÜ
Jewellery
Working from a century-old English villa in downtown Shanghai, Canadian jewellery designer Angie Wu creates conceptually driven contemporary jewellery that explores the beauty of the natural world. With over 15 years in the creative industry, her work ranges from unique collections to custom orders.
BELLOWS
Sound Production
BELLOWS is a boutique production company specialising in original scores, soundtracks and sound design for film, advertising, art and physical spaces. The agency has worked with key players in the industry including Vogue Italia, Art Basel and Maison Martin Margiela.
BOOKNITURE
Product
Designed by Mike Mak, BOOKNITURE is inspired by the densely populated city of Hong Kong and unfolds from a book into a piece of multi-functional furniture. Last year, Mak was awarded the Rising Asian Talent Award by Maison & Objet and was selected as one of the 40 Under 40 Designers by Perspective Global this year. He was a participant in a Kickstarter project this year, winning the ‘most backed seat’ and ranked 58 in the most backed project ever.
Calligraphy Girl
Creative
Heidi Thompson is a calligrapher and lettering artist based in Hong Kong. Her love of calligraphy stems from her time in Paris studying art. It was there that she took up calligraphy as a hobby and quickly began to design wedding invitations and addressing envelopes for friends. Her vision is to bring back a little bit of a handwritten touch to the digital world.
Carmen Chan
Jewellery
Hong Kong-based jewellery designer and accessory brand Carmen Chan aims to create designs that celebrate imperfection and individuality. Chan believes that a modern woman should “be who you are and say what you feel because ‘Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.’”
Cecilia Ho
Creative
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Cecilia Ho is a painter and illustrator who has crafted her own distinctive style using vivid colours and abstract lines.
Creature of Creation
3D Printing
Creature of Creation presents a new lifestyle inspired by 3D-printing and modelling across furniture, tableware and jewellery with a collective of Chinese designers such as Steven Ma and Zhoujie Zhang
Exocet
Accessories
Founded by Yasmine Jaber from Beirut and Morning Lau from Hong Kong, Exocet brings together fashion and technology with its luxury 3D-printed handbags. Exocet is represented by Future Labels, an online showroom and agency.
Fengchen Wang
Menswear
London-based menswear designer Fengchen Wang’s signature is a fresh and contemporary high-performance aesthetic that delivers, with functional details and active silhouettes.
ffiXXed
Menswear
ffiXXed is a collaboration between artist and designers Kain Picken and Fiona Lau that has spanned the globe - from Berlin to Hong Kong and New York to Melbourne. In a collection of mostly unisex styles, the duo explores different fabrications and production methods for a brand signature that feels wholly modern.
Grain Design
Furniture
Founded by Lawrence Ting, Grain Design is a Hong Kong-based woodwork design studio that combines modern aesthetics with the finest craftsmanship. Constantly inspired by the raw material, Ting’s work is always led by the wood grain itself.
Heting
Jewellery
Designed for those who find art in nature, Heting is named after a poem from the Song dynasty that speaks of a tranquil courtyard, and coincidentally, is also the Chinese name of the founder Carina Wong. Made with precious metals and intricately carved pearls, each piece is timelessly beautiful.
ITO
Product
ITO – independent, travel and original – is the first designer luggage and travel goods brand to come from China. The label’s mission is simple: “to offer a better suitcase.” Aptly, each collection is named after a type of nut for its typical hard shell and soft interior.
Jan Zhou
Product
Textile and product designer Jan Zhou has developed a new technique which uses hand-painting onto fabric with applied-heat to create a raised effect. Her technique can be used on most fabrics to create an innovative textile of the future.
Jinjia Hu
Creative
Paper artist and sculptor Jinjia Hu created a special paper technique that tiles 3D paper to create large-scale pieces of art, a craft he has been perfecting for the last few years.
Kris Xu
Accessories
Shanghai-based Kris Xu specialises in bespoke handbags, and in two short years has been invited to showcase her pieces at Design by Shanghai and London Fashion Week.
Le Mini Macaron
Beauty Accessories
Christina and François created Le Mini Macaron last year in Shanghai, with a successful Kickstarter project. They believe gel nails should be available and affordable to all, so invented a new portable gel-nail gadget, each one packaged with a set of colourful nail polish colours.
Memorieslab
Print Production
Founded by twins Andy and Raymond Shi, Memorieslab is dedicated to the art of preservation. Founded in 2013, Memorieslab is introducing a new generation of high-end photo printing and imaging services that redefine the essence of photography and the art of print.
MIRO
Design
Originally founded by Michael Leung and Rony Chan in the Netherlands in 2010, MIRO has now relocated to Hong Kong. Their works explore different aspects of design, from crafts and industry to design systems and sustainability. With projects involving curatorial works and exhibition design, as well as Rony’s involvement with Vitra Design Museum, MIRO’s creativity is also reflected in exhibitions.
Melville
Fine Jewellery
Jewellery
Central Saint Martin’s graduate Nathalie Melville founded Melville Fine Jewellery, in 2010. Her innovative line specialises in combining sustainable, ethical and traceable sourcing with innovative design and impeccable craftsmanship. Melville is also Hong Kong’s only Fairtrade precious metals license holder.
n i i n
Jewellery
n i i n handcrafts nature’s treasures to create original jewellery and accessories, with ethical practices as its core. Founded by Austrian-Chinese designer and Central Saint Martin’s graduate Jeannie Hsu, n i i n is a product of a passion for unique design and raw creativity.
Obellery
Jewellery
Obellery is a contemporary jewellery studio founded in 2014 by Hugo Yeung and Belinda Chang. The studio presents unique contemporary jewellery and objects from Asian artists, with the goal of promoting contemporary metal craft.
QUEST Terrarium
Product
Graphic designer and handcrafter Timothy Wong’s QUEST Terrarium are a stunning example of modern day living art. Bringing the outdoors into the living space, his work uses succulent plants and moss to create striking interior décor.
Shine Li
Accessories
Beijing-based milliner Shine Li is inspired by the fantastical world of the animal kingdom. Her headpieces have a magical and playful charm to them that has won her a loyal fanbase since 2009.
SHUSHU/TONG
Womenswear
Founded by Liushu Lei and Yutong Jiang who graduated from London College of Fashion with a MA Womenswear, SHUSHU/TONG is an independent brand based in Shanghai that combines street style grunge with a tailored finish. Having both worked with Simone Rocha and Gareth Pugh before launching their label captures the zeitgeist.
Sky Yutaka
Architect & Interiors
Sky Yutaka is an emerging multi-disciplinary Hong Kong-based architecture design studio founded by Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano. The firm takes a collaborative approach to design which bridges the link between various disciplines, academia and at various scales in different media across several platforms.
Teppuanna Ng
Creative
Winghei Terri Ng’s resin infused products utilise waste materials to wonderful effect. Giving scrap materials a new lease of life, and allowing people to “appreciate the beauty in wasted items and think about how they can reuse them.”
The Bow Tie
Accessories
An avid collector and bow tie connoisseur, founder of THE BOW TIE, Chris Klotz, was unsatisfied with the mediocrity of the bow tie marketplace and took it upon himself to deliver something different. Hailing from Germany, Klotz’ entrepreneurial spirit found him sourcing fabrics and designing his own pieces that led to him setting up his business.
The World is Your Oyster
Menswear
Founded in early 2014 by Calvin Chan and Joyce Kun, The World Is Your Oyster is a Hong Kong-based menswear label that merges the characteristics of formal tailoring with elements of streetwear.
Threadsmith
Menswear
Designer Yves Shahar founded Threadsmith to create timeless, well made clothing for people to love. The mission: “to strip a product to its simplest form and elevate its essence – nothing more, nothing less.” The result is a collection of sophisticated men’s essentials.
Victoria Kwong
Creative
Victoria Kwong is a creative director and fashion stylist who divides her time between Hong Kong and London. She merges imagination with her technical skills, always pushing the boundaries of storytelling.
VOID Watches
Accessories
In what started as a side project to a career in design and engineering turned into a full time job, Swedish designer and engineer David Ericsson launched VOID watches in Hong Kong, to put simplicity at the core of its design philosophy, a philosophy rooted in the brand’s Swedish heritage.
Wan Hung Cheung
Menswear
Wan Hung Cheung is a contemporary fashion label that explores the juxtaposition of modernity, innovation and traditional artisanal craft, mixing intricate and ornate embroidery with clean cut tailoring. Cheung graduated from his designer training at Central Saint Martin’s where he won the prestigious Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery in 2014.
Wingki Kwok
Creative
Before becoming an illustrator, Wingki Kwok was a journalist and TVB news anchor. Based in Hong Kong she uses watercolours to create fashion and portrait illustrations and held her first solo exhibition in 2014.
WMWM
Womenswear
Inspired by clean lines and considered tailoring, Mushroom Song’s monochromatic collection showcases the brand’s ability to maintain simplicity in trend while emphasising craftsmanship in design. Inspired by “BLANK”, garments are all one size fits none. The collection is about “Nothing comes from nothing”
Yirantian
Womenswear
Yirantian Guo studied Womenswear at London College of Fashion, and graduated with her Masters Degree in 2014. Her post-graduate collection, “Tangible Hidden Space” was profiled by many international publications and celebrated as one the esteemed university’s most influential collections of the year.
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