Meet Polly Ho, the Hong Kong designer redefining the 300-year heritage behind Canton silk as a co-founder of fashion company Loom Loop. From New York to Tokyo, Shanghai to Paris, award-winning fashion designer Polly Ho is carrying the torch of Hong Kong’s history across the globe with her collections. Together with Andy Wong, the duo are the brains and creativity behind Loom Loop, a fashion label that draws inspiration from Chinese folklore legends to create clothing that bri

HONG KONG - Soulless supermalls housing luxury labels, traditional suit tailors, and markets full of cheap designer knock-offs: Hong Kong's flaccid fashion scene has long struggled to compete with the sartorial cool of Tokyo's Harajuku, or the street style of Hongdae in Seoul. But a new generation of independent designers in Hong Kong is changing all that with creations that are putting the city on the international fashion map. Eschewing advertising and straplines for Instag

Fashion Hong Kong sent over a trio of brands to NYFW for the second year, and this season, designers Cynthia & Xiao, Harrison Wong, and Loom Loop were tapped to show off their Fall ’17 creations. They each showed in one big runway show at Skylight Clarkson Square today; pre-show, we caught up with the designers to get the scoop on the collections and their visit to the Big Apple. Polly Ho of Loom Loop closed out the show with fashion that referenced a popular Chinese childhoo