Each collection begins with memory.
A moment, a scent, a sound once familiar.
ABOUT Z/CHEN
Garments shaped by lived experiences.
Z/Chen is an independent label shaped by lived experience.
Each collection begins with a personal moment. A memory, relationship, or feeling, translated into garments through silhouette, structure, and movement.
The work exists between past and present, constantly adapting.
Z/Chen treats clothing as a way to hold fragments of life in physical forms, not as finished stories, but as evolving ones.
COLLECTION ONE: CEREMONY
A personal collection born from my parents love story. Immigrants of China, they were unable to have a formal celebration of love in the form of a wedding due to money constraints. Instead, they opted for simple signatures on paper without even a ring.
CEREMONY reimagines their wedding day in Chinatown, New York with a simple celebration and a vow of enduring love.