Founder, designer and Creative Director Ann-Louise Andrén leads the development of new products in collaboration with a design team. Ann-Louise has always been interested in design and production and after moving to Hong Kong in her twenties, she set up her own business in 1988, designing bags and travel accessories under her own brand, Ceannis.

After ten years in Hong Kong, Ann-Louise returned to Sweden and Ceannis Living Accessories was established combining bags, accessories, and interior design products in a lifestyle concept. Ceannis is today a leading Scandinavian brand in lifestyle products. Ann-Louise is driven by her love of design and production, and to see beautiful new articles take form in the sample rooms are her highlight moments. Sustainability is a priority, reducing waste, creating quality products designed for long life cycles and selecting materials that are harmless to people and nature are aspects that have always been important to Ann-Louise´s creative process, and to Ceannis as a brand.

Born and raised in Venice, Italy, Ify’s love for African fashion blossomed early in childhood, for which her Nigerian family takes most of the credit. Within a tight-knit African community in Italy, she was exposed to the many facets of West African culture, from its traditions and folklore to the meaning behind its vibrant colours.

Before starting OliveAnkara, she completed her studies with a PhD in Human Molecular Genetics at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, she first moved to Singapore to further her career with a Post Doctorate in Molecular Carcinogenesis at the National Cancer Centre.

Her move into the fashion industry started when she noticed the absence of African culture in Singapore while trying to source African prints to make her wedding dress. She took on the responsibility of bridging this gap with the creation of OliveAnkara in 2017, which also rekindled her love for fashion. It was not until 2019, buoyed by early successes and a growing loyal base of customers, that Ify turned her passion side hustle into a full-time career.

Driven by passion and her love for diverse cultures, Ify has centred her slow fashion sustainable brand around two core values: female empowerment and sustainability.

Natalia is a Brazilian-Canadian designer with an all-out passion for sustainability, fashion, and textile design. With a BA in Industrial Design, a diploma in Fashion Design, and 11 years of experience in the fashion industry, she is finally ready to take my place in the Sustainable Fashion Market through the Cottagecore Aesthetic.

Natalia was born in Brazil, but she started traveling very young. She spent her childhood in Germany and Spain, followed by a work experience in France. These experiences have taught her to embrace new cultures. her passion for History, Art, and Vintage grew through the years, with a British and European eye and personality. However, it was only two years ago, after five years of living in Canada, that she discovered Cottagecore.

Discovering this community has switched her mindset. It was a switch off from stress and a switch in the way she used to consume, the way she saw life, with an English-Vintage aesthetic that brings the calmness of a Monet painting. At that moment, she decided to create Wandwoods, a brand that advocates for a more sustainable, calm, and romantic way of life here in North America.

Yeung Chin obtained his MA in Fashion Design from the University of Westminster in 2009. In the same year, he won the YDC Special Mention Award from Hong Kong Design Centre and exhibited his work during the Cheer’s Exhibition held at London O X O Tower London.

He won a top creative award in Hong Kong Young Designer’s Contests (YDC) held by The Hong Kong Trade Development Council in 2003.

From 2006 to 2008, he worked in Li Ning. In 2010 he designed the stage costume by CCDC. In 2013, he held personal exhibitions at Asia Society Gallery and Hong Kong Heritage. After being the Chief Fashion Designer in G2000, he joined Tokyo, New York, Milan, Paris, Shanghai and Beijing Fash-ion Week from 2015 to 2017. He was invited to the Singapore Design Centre exhibition in 2015. Parco and Isetan invited his collection to do a Popup show in their store in 2017. He is now a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong Design Institute of VTC and has established his own fashion brand in PMQ, named after his own name, Yeung Chin.

Rain Chan’s Biography
Rain is a local fashion designer who specializes in designing knitwear design and offering vividly colorful and humorous yet practical designs in her collection.

Wayne Lo’s Biography
Wayne is chief designer of local fashion brand Hoopla, a brand that presents knitting innovations in its unique products. And aim to promo Hong Kong’s rich heritage and culture throughout the collection. Wayne was also 2nd runner up at Knitwear Symphony 2016 with his collection “Urban Escape”, since then he developed his unique art of knitting with his quirky yet commercial designs at Hoopla.

Debbie’s intense passion in design and hand craft have compelled her to take a sharp turn in her career and became a full-time artist two decades ago. She has been experimenting with different media in her artwork. It includes mosaic, pottery, glass and fibre.

Lately he focus is on fibre both in 2D and 3D form with sustainable practice. Fibre is an exquisite medium for self-expression. Regardless of its origin, be it from nature or from high tech innovation, it is there for us to improve our lives both functionally and aesthetically. It is the application and affinity aspects of this medium that appeals to me enormously.

By bringing back reminiscence of how our artisan ancestors made things from accessible natural resources with their bare hands, we can uncover our roots and take a different perspective of ourselves and our surroundings.

Debbie’s work has been exhibited and collected around the world. She custom makes art wearables for individual clients as well as create decorative pieces for commercial organizations, fashion shows and exhibitions. Apart from teaching in design colleges in Hong Kong, she has been a visiting lecturer in The Central Academy of Fine Arts (中國中央美術學院), China Fashion Designers’ Association, Penland School of Crafts (U.S.), University of South Queensland. She has also worked as art consultant for hotel chains and curated art exhibitions.

Debbie’s most recent project involves reviving our traditional dress “cheongsam” which is one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

Swedish designer, Maxjenny Forslund, started her luxury Copenhagen-based clothing brand, maxjenny! in 2017. She owes her fame to combining clean lines, bright colours, and handmade colourful prints, which she designs using only a digital camera, a pencil, and a computer. The brand aims for 100% recycled or other sustainably sourced materials, and selects less intensive modes of transport — they deliver by bike in Copenhagen. maxjenny!’s upcoming outerwear is made in a recycled pet bottle fibre fabric with re-down and all prints she makes are all made with GOTS approved ink through certified processes.

Supei left Singapore in 2005 after a brief stint as a political analyst for Singapore’s Ministry of Defense, to pursue fashion design in the UK. Following her graduation from Ravensbourne College in London, she honed her skills in UK brands like Burberry and Preen to trends-forecasting giant WGSN. Over the next decade, she designed for: Chinese luxury label Exception de Mixmind, Hong Kong/Milan label Anteprima, and Spanish brand Adolfo Dominguez. Her growing interest in sustainability and education also led her to consult for HK-based sustainable label The R Collective as a Technical Design Manager mentoring young talents.

Supei’s design aesthetic is shaped by her training as a collections designer and her experience at Exception de Mixmind, a label rooted in artisanal textiles. Nature and emotions are thematic concerns that drive her works in fashion and textiles.

Supei is passionate about slow fashion and driving much-needed changes in the way we consume fashion today.

JI Qingsong is a graduate of the Faculty of Fashion & Design at Donghua University in China. He is also a senior fashion designer rooted in the mainland China market. Mr. Ji has contributed to the Fashion Industry in various ways and is experienced in fashion design, brand strategy, business operations and supply chain management. Mr. Ji is honoured as one of the “Top 10 Fashion Designers in Guangdong” and is currently an Executive Member of the Guangdong Fashion Designers Association, an invited judge of China’s University Students Fashion Week. He is also the winner of the “Association Award”, which is the highest honour of the “Top 10 Fashion Designers in Guangdong”.

Design Concepts：
Mr. Ji’s design concept is to balance the relationship between nature, self, humanities, art and trend, focusing on the lifestyle of the middle class in the society. He creates based on fashion, civilization, low carbon, humanistic care, and a sense of social responsibility. Mr. Ji also explores the arts of modelling integrating with varying cultures, including the fusion of traditional elements and modern cultures. In addition, to comprehend the harmony between human and the nature, and the roles of people, cities, and nature.

ZHAO Jing has been working for 17 years in the fashion industry since she obtained the Professional Skills certificate of Fashion Designer in 2004. In 2018, Ms. Zhao founded a company to focus on the upcycling of leftover materials from the denim manufacturing and to create Denim Doll Series. In 2022, Ms. Zhao registered the trademark「皆可成龍」. She aims to develop a series of environmental-friendly Tyrannosaurus Rex Dolls, which enables reborn jeans to become dinosaur dolls. Supporting low carbon and creating exclusive style.

”As an architect, I’m trained to design buildings with a time-perspective of 100 years. On this design idea, I started Eduards Accessories Sweden.”

Award-winning Swedish architect/designer Cecilia Eduards has a passion for combining traditional Nordic handcraft and building techniques with contemporary urban design.

In 2013, after 10 years of architectural design work, Gothenburg-based Cecilia Eduards started to explore how to implement the sustainable design theories of her daily work as an architect into accessory design. Striving to create items to be loved for years, the goal was to find the balance between Scandinavian simplicity and contemporary design. As a trained architect, the aspects of beauty and function are equally important.

”Näver” is the Swedish word for birch bark and the Näver Collection, launched in 2015, is inspired by the traditional birch bark braiding technique used for centuries in the Nordic countries. The Näver Collection by Cecilia Eduards has been awarded the Form 2018 and Form 2020 design award by the Swedish Form Association and the FORM 2018 seal of quality by the German Bundesverband Kunsthandwerk e.V.

Cecilia Eduards runs Eduards Accessories from the Gothenburg Studio, implementing and exploring the architectural perspective on sustainable accessory design.