SOPHIE HONG

b. 1956

“Des feuilles du mûrier le temps fait des robes de soie.”

Sophie Hong is an internationally awarded clothing designer and textile researcher. Sophie Hong’s eponymous brand was founded in Taiwan in 1977. Today, she is one of Taiwan’s, and the world’s, top designers and features her work in Milan, Paris, Tokyo and New York. Simply put, Sophie Hong is an artist and dressing the body is her chosen medium.

She creates not only a beautiful design aesthetic but a whole way of relating to the natural world through her use of Mud Silk. Another of her perfected techniques is silk dyed with tea, then lacquered following an ancestral Chinese process that produces an incredible range of tremendously deep, rich blue, green, brown and purple hues. All of her dyed silks are exceptional to work with because the thicker, paper-like texture from the dye processes infuse garments with a fantastic structure uncommon to such a light and natural silk. Her designs is imbued with natural elements and generations of traditional artistry.

Reference: https://www.sophiehong.com/