FJU TALENTS 26 CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF TAIWANESE DESIGN AT LONDON FASHION WEEK
London, September 2026 — FJU Talents returns to London Fashion Week Fashion Scout on Saturday 19th September at 3pm, marking its 10th anniversary with a showcase that brings together four new voices in Taiwanese fashion and textiles,
alongside selected work from designers who have featured in the platform over the past decade.
Presented by the Department of Textiles and Clothing at Fu Jen Catholic University, FJU Talents has spent the last ten years giving emerging designers from Taiwan an opportunity to develop their practice and present their work internationally. The 2026 edition celebrates that journey while presenting the new designers shaping its next chapter.
This year’s presentation brings together Min-Hsin Yu, YUI Kao, Alison Lai and Ting Hsuan Chang who show four very different practices connected by a willingness to experiment with fashion as a way of exploring identity, desire, belief and the body.
FJU TALENTS 26 DESIGNERS
MIN-HSIN YU @yumin.world
A graduate of Textile Design at Fu Jen Catholic University, Min-Hsin Yu draws inspiration from the contrasting sunsets of Earth and Mars, exploring the multiple facets of individuality through colour and texture. Hand crochet and ribbon yarns
translate shifting light into layered surfaces, where warm orange-reds meet deep blues. Through delicate craftsmanship and contrasting hues, Yu creates an elegant balance between opposing states, revealing individuality in constant transformation.
YUI KAO @kaoyui0812
A graduate of Fashion Design at Fu Jen Catholic University, YUI Kao’s Impulse Lover explores self-presentation and desire in contemporary romance, imagining lovers as products packaged to be desired. Genderless oversized silhouettes and cord corsets
reshape conventional body codes, while Taiwanese snack packaging, heart-shaped charms and vivid red tulle collide with romantic desire. Through humour, provocation and visual excess, Kao creates a bold and inclusive queer aesthetic.
ALISON LAI @shenanigans.studio
First selected for FJU Talents in 2019, Alison Lai returns to the platform in 2026, having founded her fashion label (She)nanigans in 2024. Her latest collection examines patriarchal structures and the gaze upon the female body from a woman’s perspective. Drawing on the surreal world of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, deconstructed tailoring, distorted black-and-white stripes and vivid red create a tension between social restraint and female desire.
TING HSUAN CHANG @thchang_design
A graduate of Textile Design at Fu Jen Catholic University, Ting Hsuan Chang’s Cochlea draws inspiration from parasitised snails, exploring the tension between collective belief and free will. An imagined religion unfolds through elaborate, ritualistic silhouettes, while inverse-rib knits create distorted optical textures.
Blending sacred imagery with unsettling absurdity, Chang uses textiles to question faith, control and individual consciousness.
A DECADE OF DESIGNERS
To mark its 10th anniversary, FJU Talents looks back at some of the designers who have passed through the platform since its launch — highlighting the different directions their practices have taken beyond their time at Fu Jen Catholic University.
ALISON LAI / FJU TALENTS 19 @shenanigans.studio
Alison Lai was selected for FJU Talents 2019 and founded her fashion label (She)nanigans in 2024. Inspired by Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, Komorebi in Bloom captures the fleeting beauty of sunlight through foliage. Through photography, print
and Lumen Print techniques, Lai translates these quiet moments into an elegant and contemplative fashion expression.
XIAOMO CHEN / FJU TALENTS 20 @xiao____mo
Xiaomo Chen was selected for FJU Talents 2020 before continuing her studies at Parsons School of Design in New York. Developed later in her practice, Situated Knowledge draws on post-humanism to explore the shifting boundaries between
human and object, reality and virtuality, questioning how different perspectives shape our understanding of identity and reality.
ZONG XING LIAO / FJU TALENTS 21 @stanleyliao
Zong Xing Liao was selected for FJU Talents 2021. His collection Silence Mode draws on Eastern Zen philosophy and the aesthetics of karesansui, reflecting on the passage of time and constant change. Through minimalist silhouettes, subtle details
and a restrained greyscale palette, Liao evokes blurred boundaries and the quiet, contemplative beauty of Zen.
TIMMY CHOU / FJU TALENTS 22 @timmy_chouuuuu
Timmy Chou was selected for FJU Talents 2022. Often drawing inspiration from Indigenous culture, his collectionEmbers evokes families gathering around a fire on winter nights. Elements of traditional tribal dress inform fluid silhouettes and the
relationship between fabric and body, expressing a sense of movement, freedom and an unrestrained tribal spirit.
SHUN AN CHEN / FJU TALENTS 24 @wearerottenstrawberries
Shun An Chen was selected for FJU Talents 2024. Inspired by an era shaped by pandemics, conflict and disaster, Black Sheep celebrates those who challenge social conventions and awaken amid uncertainty. Through fashion, Chen explores
individuality and resistance, encouraging the courage to break free from constraints and embrace one’s authentic self.
CHIHWEN KUO / FJU TALENTS 25 @wayne_knitted
Chihwen Kuo was selected for FJU Talents 2025 and specialises in knitwear and textile design. He currently runs his own design studio and yarn brand, Wayne Knitted. Through knitting and knotting, his work transforms sedimentation into
tactile structures, where each stitch and knot becomes a trace of memory, time and accumulation.
Ten years on, FJU Talents continues to use London as a meeting point for emerging Taiwanese designers and the wider international fashion community, with this year’s showcase introducing the next generation while celebrating those who came before them.
FJU TALENTS 26: CELEBRATING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Saturday 19 September 2026, 3PM
Fashion Scout
31 New Inn Yard
London EC2A 3EY, UK
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