Softnoise Studio

Softnoise Studio is a New York City-based jewelry brand that focuses on capturing ephemeral moments in sculptural forms. Handmade in Brooklyn, Softnoise Studio writes sculptural poetry through intimate touches and everyday experiences. Each design is a co-creation between silver-sculpted art and its wear to uncover new stories. Avant-garde and unique in style, Softnoise Studio creates a strong connection between the past and the present.

Designer Chengcheng Zhao grew up next to an archaeology museum, where she connects with the distant past through unearthed objects and specimens. She applies the oldest traditional craftsmanship – lost-waxing casting to create the process of polishing jewels’ surfaces with everyday wear.

The craftsmanship allows wearers to interact with the imprinted past, re-encounter the embedded touch, and uncover untold stories. Each piece can be passed along to grow with new stories.

Besides the sculptured timeless silver jewelry design, Softnoise Studio consciously focuses on slow fashion in a made-to-order mode to maintain its sustainable philosophy.

Madeline Marie

Madeline Marie is a New York-based custom dress label focusing on slow fashion and bespoke with the SEASONLESS concept. From city life to country, from glam to everyday wear, Madeline Marie’s styles range from feminine, to grunge, to glamorous, and for fabulous daydreamers. Every piece is hand-sewn using vintage linens and textiles from local shops in NYC.

Consciously built on the foundation of sustainable slow fashion, Madeline Marie developed the signature SEASONLESS collections designed to last a lifetime. SEASONLESS by Madeline Marie is centered around designing dresses that can be worn year-round and creating a lifestyle where the only thing that changes by season is the color. Yellow, lavender, and blue symbolize Spring like the first bloom of tulips; Pink, green, and other joyful colors reflect warmth in the Summertime; Orange, green, red, and yellow for Fall inspired by the colors of leaves turning and the feeling of coziness; White, red, blue and black represent the Winter tone of the warm fires, holidays and dark starry nights. These specific seasonal colors are typically connected to the various emotions, feelings, and memories that everyone has attached to each season.

Growing up in Texas, designer & founder Madeline Marie Manning learned sewing skills from her family. Collecting vintage fabrics all over the nation, Manning cherishes the timelessness in each dress she customizes in New York City, hoping to make everyone feel empowered with each wear.

Mona Jewelry

Mona Jewelry is a sustainable jewelry brand that draws inspiration from nature and poetry. With its consistent aesthetic tribute to oceanic creatures, cultures, and associative literature, Mona Jewelry celebrates the beauty and sublime with soft feminine elegance. In awe of the ocean and nature, the collection significantly utilizes Quartz stone, a sustainable crystal gem from nature, to obtain eco-friendly design philosophy.

Designer Mona Liu has been diving in the ocean and collecting shells and conches all over the world. Inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s philosophy and poetry, each design piece aspires to connect human sentiments to nature. Through collections of jewelry, Mona Jewelry advocates for a harmonious rhythm of life as a lesson learned from praising the marine motif. With a passionate love for the ocean, Mona Jewelry supports coral ecosystems by donating to the non-profit organization Coral Guardian.

ANNA.Z.

ANNA.Z. is a sustainable gender-neutral brand that is specialized in telling unique stories through textile innovation. The brand’s unique burning textile carries an emotional journey of loss and remembrance. Focusing on creating new and sustainable materials, ANNA.Z. explores the relationship between human bodies and various textile technologies, such as knitting, printing, dyeing, and embroidery.

ANNA.Z. signature “burning” material is 100% handmade, which mixes knitting and heat-transfer printing techniques. The concept of burning is regarded as a ritual movement – a traditional way of communicating with the dead. It also represents painful and irreversible emotional loss. Showcasing her emotional journey in memorizing her grandmother, Anna successfully transformed her intense emotion to unique creativity in textile design.

To immerse the audience in the unique emotional journey, Dundu. n created a displaying space based on designer Anna Zhang’s loss of grandma –a video experience of “LOSS and REMEMBRANCE”, which manifests the Chinese view of life and death and traditional Chinese funeral culture.

Maison de hoe

Maison de hoe is a New York fashion house born in the spirit of Chinese peasants that merges Chinese and western codes and city and countryside lifestyle references. Maison de Hoe just released their new collection through the NYFW Runway show with inspiration from the farms and architectural structures that can be found all across the rural Chinese villages, while the cuts and silhouettes reflect the edgy attitude of New York. This collection thus presents a hazy image that transports the viewer to a world of memories. Designer Su wants to convey how she sees herself as composed—a collision between the Chinese countryside and the metropolis of New York.

The “hoe” is a sharp, cutting implement of irony that females with ability tend to be stigmatized in male-dominated industries and were also highlighted by the comparable pronunciation of “hoe” and “ho”. Designer Hanwei Su is willing to transfer an ideal of an egalitarian message that recognizes and values the contributions made by women to society through her design works.

Other than cultural aesthetics, Hanwei Su’s conversations have continuously focused on rights, equality, sustainability, and humanitarian issues, which should be obvious. Her designs have been featured in publications, and she has been awarded the Tishman Fund for Excellence in Climate, Environmental Justice, and Sustainability and reached the finals of the IYDC Sustainable Fashion Competition.

We found these prominent female designers from Dundu.n NYFW showroom pop-up located in SOHO which was featured by @complex and featured in” The Best Events to Check Out During New York Fashion Week.“Dundu. n is a fashion consulting & creative planning agency that amplifies designers’ creativity through unconventional brand storytelling by curating unique immersive installations and brick-and-mortar settings based on brands’ images,  presented to the market. The NYFW immersive pop-up opened to the public on February 12th and officially ended on February 14th, which showcased Dundu. n’s professionalism and passion for the exact practices.

“We hope to present fashion in a more fun and interactive way, offering everyone an opportunity to have an in-person reaction. Let good designs be seen in a unique immersive way” Jiajia Wang, founder/ creative director of Dundu.n stated her motivation for establishing the agency.