“Style· Encounter Moment”- Fashion Parade of the Subsidy Programe for Fashion Design on Sample Making – intrduction

Designer :LENG Carmen

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LENG Carmen
Carmen graduated with 1st honor in BA Fashion Design in 2012 in the UK. She participated in Macau Fashion Link fashion show and the Pop-Up Shop in 2013. Launched Common Comma in the same year and later launched women’s clothing label Loom in 2016.
Since childhood, Carmen has always been fascinated by structures created by nature. While fashion design has many facets, to Carmen, it is all about craftsmanship. Wearing her fashion, she wants her audience to put fashion trends behind for a while and return to nature.

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The founders of Common Comma, Carmen and David, define their label as follows: Comma is a very common sign, so fashion and comma are perceived as equivalent; both are often seen in everyday life and therefore cannot be ignored.
Loom is the women’s fashion line under Common Comma, which was founded by Carmen in 2016. Blending traditional craftsmanship and innovative ideas, Loom creates classic, durable, and creative clothing that can accompany you from season to season.

Although womenswear is the main focus of Loom, there will also be a series of elegant children’s wear in corresponding styles to complement the features and design concepts of the women’s line.

Designer :Wai Chin Seong

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Influenced by her mother since childhood, Wai always had a keen interest in fashion design. After graduating from high school, she went to Shih Chien University, Kaohsiung Campus in Taiwan, to study fashion design and marketing. From 2010 to 2012, she went on to ESMOD Beijing for advanced studies in fashion design. She was selected to showcase her graduation project “O LA LA” at the Beijing Fashion Week.
Wai has gradually cultivated her unique personal taste and distinctive design style. In 2014, she worked as the costume designer and character image designer for two Macao movies, Timing and Our Seventeen. Her works were often showcased in Macao, Hong Kong, Beijing, Taiwan, etc. In 2016, Wai brought the Spring/Summer 2017 Collection of her own brand, “POURQUOI”, to the prestigious Haute Couture and Trendsetter Fashion Exhibition “TRANOÏ” at the Paris Fashion Week. In 2017, POURQUOI was invited to various clothing exhibitions both at home in Macao and abroad. In 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017, Wai was the selected recipient of the Subsidy Program for Fashion Design on Sample Making launched by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government.

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POURQUOI means “why” in French, which is children’s favorite question. Experimenting with new inspirations and unconventional thoughts, the designer mixes fun and fantasy elements into her creations, turning each piece into a little riddle. All the POURQUOI works contain some hidden details, serving as “little secrets” that give the wearer never-ending, child-like surprises.

Designer : LO Ka Heng

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LO Ka Heng
A hair stylist and an image designer. He is an active participant in major international fashion shows and hair style shows, where he has worked as a hair stylist and an image designer.

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AURALO ARTE
With its trendy and unique designs, the style of “AURALO ARTE” features a perfect combination of art and gorgeousness. Haute couture production methods are employed in every detail of the pieces. In the choice of colors, it shows a beautiful fusion of black and bright colors, like auroras dancing beautifully in the dark night sky.

Designer:Lai Ka Pou

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Lai Ka Pou graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, majoring in Language Arts. She has a special interest in languages and their histories, particularly in the Chinese language.
She was the chief editor of a fashion blog in US and managed sales of a fashion label. She also designed the styling for famous Chinese pianist Lang Lang in the 50th Academy Awards. She is now engaged in new media, content creation, and fashion design works.

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HAOSHIJIE CREATIVE CULTURE (MACAO) LIMITED
HAOSHIJIE is the first Chinese-style aesthetics & fashion label in Macao. The store is located at 44, Rua dos Ervanarios, Macau. The label is dedicated to promoting Chinese culture and fashion. The store is a boutique and a teahouse for selling exclusively designed Chinese fashion as well as products created by local artists.

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C/W COLLECTIVE designer was studied fashion design and production diploma course at CPTTM in Macau.
After graduation, she worked as a fashion designer for two years as a fashion designer at the center’s brand MACONSEF, and studied at Macau Polytechnic Institute-a bachelor degree in space display design. After graduation, she was active in local fashion events in Macau, and founded the fashion brand C/W in 2019 COLLECTIVE.

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C/W COLLECTIVE is an independent fashion brand in Macau, founded in 2019. This brand features a very personal style, with avant-garde and deconstructive design styles. It uses a mixture of different fabrics to create unique clothing, and tells different stories and emotions through clothing. The brand has changed from “product thinking” to “user thinking”, thinking about problems from the customer’s standpoint, providing products that customers want, and at the same time attaching importance to data analysis to track consumer preferences, making adjustments to its own design, and increasing personalized experience , To improve customers’ favorability of the brand. Most of the brand’s products can be made into different shapes in one piece, achieving both high wearability and uniqueness, so as to satisfy most customers who have independent self and dare to accept new things, and make customers more willing to pay for their hobbies and interests.

Designer:MARIA CORDOVA Celestino

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MARIA CORDOVA Celestino
Studied art and design in the United Kingdom and Japan, Celestino graduated from the CPTTM Diploma Programme in Fashion Design and Manufacture in 2015. His collection “Kimono Now” won the Overall Championship Award and he won the Academic Excellence Award in the Graduation Show. Later, he was invited to join the CPTTM Fashion Incubator Program “Maconsef”. He was also part of the “Macao New Designer Incubation Program” organized by the Joint Youth Committee of Industrial Association of Macau.

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Cordova
People always believes that even though the body has turned into dust after death, the human soul will continue to live in another dimension. Is it the soul lives to control the body, or does the body exist to protect the soul? The purpose of the project is to use clothing as the human body and to find out what are hidden underneath it.

Designer:Rainie Choi

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Fervently in love with fashion design and her most important thing in life, Rainie Choi is well-experienced in the selling & management of haute couture , She think fashion like as the second skin of female. She took the “fashion design and manufacturing Diploma programmer” at the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center, and got the first prize respectively in the Graduation Shows of 2012 .

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AURALO ARTE
Rainie Choi and her partner establish their own brand AURALO ARTE, Bringing their first Spring/Summer 2014 collection to the world. Since after Their seasonal collection non-stop show and sales on Hong Kong , Taiwan etc. fashion week and shop present. This is the spring summer collection at 2021.

Designer:Wong Ha, Wan Sio Tong, Cheong Kuan Peng

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The AXOXYXOXS design team of Wong Ha, Wan Sio Tong, and Cheong Kuan Peng founded the fashion brand and had introduced their first collection n 2015. Their collections were on exhibition in Macao Fashion Gallery – Bright New Designer Fashion Exhibition. For many years, they have received sponsorship from Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau’s “Subsidy Programme for Fashion Design on Sample Making” to develop their fashion collections.

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【AXOXYXOXS】 represents a group of people who refuses to be labeled, reluctant to be confined by conventions, yearns for freedom, and always pursues their independence and dreams. The AXOXYXOXS design accents details and originality without sacrificing wearability and easy to mix & match. Minimalistic cuttings with nonchalantly placed details exhibit a low-key, graceful, and casual urban chic. AXOXYXOXS conveys their ambition for changes and uncompromising attitude towards life.

Last updated at 2020-09-30.