DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT: Phyllis Chan and Suzzie Chung

Posted by Robyn Burnaford on

YanYan Knits, a premium knitwear brand started by two childhood best friends, has quickly become a top name in sustainable fashion.  We first discovered their line in Women's Wear Daily and have been fans ever since!

"Hong Kong-based designers and childhood best friends Phyllis Chan and Suzzie Chung are banking on it with their premium knitwear brand YanYan, which utilizes deadstock and leftover yarns from mills and knitwear factories.

The two are aiming to create a youth factor around sustainability, blending grandma elegance with a playful spirit in their designs, and simultaneously touching on hot-button issues facing the fashion industry — including low-waste production, experimental retail strategy, reacting to the pace and competitiveness of fast fashion, and putting out product with more long-term, less trend-driven, potential."

Phyllis has also been established as a designer when she worked for Rag & Bone, and Suzzie worked as a print designer in Hong Kong for a number of mass companies in China, ranging from children’s to men’s and women’s, denim and lingerie.

With fall officially here, we're all about knits, and the ones from YanYan that we're eyeing include this graphic red cardigan, this colorblocked dress and this contrast collar bell bottom separates look - to name just a few!

 

 

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