About YUANIX DESIGN
Yuanix Design exists to redefine what "Made in China" can mean by bringing together several independent Chinese designers and heritage craftsmen, all of whose work explores the translation of traditional Chinese craft into contemporary fashion and lifestyle.
Slow, handmade and rooted in local communities, Yuanix aims to challenge cliched Western assumptions about China as a mass of anonymous production.
From the Buyu and Miao villages of Guizhou, to contemporary design studios, many of the women creating these items stem from intangible heritage craft practices, devoted to traditions passed down for generations.
Our Designers
Mrs. Ting Luo — LUO TING
Mrs. Ting Luo is a Buyi designer, educator and heritage advocate from Guizhou, trained in fashion design at Tsinghua University's Academy of Arts & Design. As founder of Guizhou Luoting Buyi Fashion, she has spent her career carrying Buyi clothing and craft into contemporary life, and building schools, cooperatives and workshops where traditional skills become real livelihoods for rural women and artisans. Her label, LUO TING, works in maple-resin wax-resist batik: flowers, birds and geometry drawn freehand onto hand-woven cotton, then dyed in natural indigo, so no two pieces ever repeat.
Wanwan — CSFW
Wanwan is the founder and creative director of CSFW (此时风味), a contemporary Chinese label rooted in craftsmanship, hand embroidery and feminine storytelling. For her, a garment is a language of memory and identity, and embroidery becomes not decoration but a way to tell women's lives, regional culture and the quiet strength of handmade work. CSFW joins traditional embroidery and ethnic detail to modern silhouettes — and, in its denim, the worn, the washed and the kept — making heritage something worn naturally, every day.
Mrs. A Yi Han — LEQION
Mrs. A Yi Han, also known as Lei Qiong, was born into the Miao villages of Qiandongnan, Guizhou, surrounded by crafts handed down for a thousand years. Her label, LEQION, brings three living traditions out of the mountains and into the world: hand-forged Miao silver shaped through repeated hammering, hand-stitched embroidery that carries ancestral stories, and natural-indigo batik whose ice-crack patterns can never be exactly repeated. Every piece is entirely handmade — her way of keeping the craft, and the culture behind it, alive.
Traditional Chinese Craftsmanships
Yuanix gathers its makers around a single thread: Chinese intangible cultural heritage, alive in the hands of the women who keep it.
The work travels from the Buyi and Miao villages of Guizhou into the contemporary wardrobe — maple-resin batik and natural indigo, hand-forged silver, hand-stitched embroidery — carried from the mountains into modern daily life. Pattern here is never decoration alone: flowers, birds, butterflies and geometric symbols hold generations of meaning, drawn and dyed and stitched by hand so that no two pieces are ever the same.
It is craft as language and memory, ethnic aesthetics made wearable rather than costume-like. Together the collection answers the question the whole fair asks. Who is she? She is the woman who makes — Ting Luo, A Yi Han, Wanwan — and the woman who chooses to wear what their hands remember.
