ying gao

A Montreal based fashion designer and professor at University of Quebec in Montreal, former head of Fashion, jewellery and accessories design Programme at HEAD-Genève, Ying Gao has achieved personal distinction through her numerous creative projects presented in more than one hundred exhibitions around the world. Her varied creative work has enjoyed international media coverage: Time, Vogue, The New York Times, Dazed and Confused, Interni, ARTE. She is one of the “Fab 40: Canada” selected by Wallpaper magazine.

Her work can be found in numerous private and public
collections, including those of Dakis Joannou,
the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and M+ Hong Kong

Ying Gao questions our assumptions about clothing by combining fashion design, product design and media design. She explores the construction of the garment, taking her inspiration from the transformations of the social and urban environment. Viewing design as a medium, Ying Gao examines both the status of the individual, whose physical boundaries are altered by external interferences, and the function of clothing as a transitional space. Her work testifies to the profound mutation of the world in which we live and carries with it a radical critical dimension that transcends technological experimentation.