FJU Talents 26 Celebrates 10 Years of Taiwanese Design at London Fashion Week
FJU Talents 26 returns to London Fashion Week Fashion Scout on Saturday 19 September 2026 at 3pm, marking its 10th anniversary with a special showcase celebrating a decade of Taiwanese fashion and textile design.
Presented by the Department of Textiles and Clothing at Fu Jen Catholic University, FJU Talents has spent the past ten years supporting emerging designers from Taiwan, offering them a platform to develop their creative practice and present their work to an international fashion audience.
The 2026 edition celebrates this milestone by bringing together four new voices in Taiwanese fashion and textiles, alongside selected work from designers who have previously featured in the FJU Talents platform over the past decade.
This year’s showcase introduces Min-Hsin Yu, YUI Kao, Alison Lai and Ting Hsuan Chang, each presenting a distinct creative vision shaped by experimentation, identity, desire, belief and the body.
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FJU Talents 26 Designers
Min-Hsin Yu
Instagram: @yumin.world
MIN HSIN YU
A graduate of Textile Design at Fu Jen Catholic University, Min-Hsin Yu draws inspiration from the contrasting sunsets of Earth and Mars, exploring individuality through colour, texture and craftsmanship.
Using hand crochet and ribbon yarns, Yu translates shifting light into layered textile surfaces where warm orange-red tones meet deep blues. Through delicate construction and contrasting hues, the collection creates an elegant balance between opposing states, revealing individuality as something constantly transforming.
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YUI Kao
Instagram: @kaoyui0812
YUI KAO
A graduate of Fashion Design at Fu Jen Catholic University, YUI Kao presents Impulse Lover, a collection exploring self-presentation and desire within contemporary romance.
Imagining lovers as products packaged to be desired, Kao uses genderless oversized silhouettes and cord corsets to reshape conventional body codes. Taiwanese snack packaging, heart-shaped charms and vivid red tulle collide with romantic fantasy, creating a bold, humorous and inclusive queer aesthetic.
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Alison Lai
Instagram: @shenanigans.studio
Alison Lai
First selected for FJU Talents in 2019, Alison Lai returns to the platform in 2026 after founding 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. Inspired by the surreal world of David Lynch’s *Twin Peaks*, the collection features deconstructed tailoring, distorted black-and-white stripes and vivid red accents, creating tension between social restraint and female desire.
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Ting Hsuan Chang
Instagram: @thchang_design
Ting Hsuan Chang
A graduate of Textile Design at Fu Jen Catholic University, Ting Hsuan Chang presents Cochlea, a collection inspired by parasitised snails and the tension between collective belief and free will.
Chang imagines a fictional religion through elaborate, ritualistic silhouettes and inverse-rib knit structures that create distorted optical textures. Blending sacred imagery with unsettling absurdity, the collection uses textiles to question faith, control and individual consciousness.
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A Decade of FJU Talents Designers
To mark its 10th anniversary, FJU Talents 26 also looks back at selected designers who have passed through the platform since its launch, highlighting the varied directions their practices have taken beyond their time at Fu Jen Catholic University.
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Alison Lai / FJU Talents 19
Instagram: @shenanigans.studio
Alison Lai was selected for FJU Talents 2019 and later 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 quiet natural moments into an elegant and contemplative fashion expression.
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Xiaomo Chen / FJU Talents 20
Instagram: @xiao____mo
Xiaomo Chen was selected for FJU Talents 2020 before continuing her studies at Parsons School of Design in New York.
Her later project, Situated Knowledge, draws on post-humanism to explore shifting boundaries between human and object, reality and virtuality. The work questions how different perspectives shape our understanding of identity, perception and reality.
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Zong Xing Liao / FJU Talents 21
Instagram: @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 time, stillness and constant change.
Through minimalist silhouettes, subtle detailing and a restrained greyscale palette, Liao evokes blurred boundaries and the quiet beauty of Zen contemplation.
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Timmy Chou / FJU Talents 22
Instagram: @timmy_chouuuuu
Timmy Chou was selected for FJU Talents 2022. Often inspired by Indigenous culture, his collection Embers 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 movement, freedom and an unrestrained tribal spirit.
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Shun An Chen / FJU Talents 24
Instagram: @wearerottenstrawberries
Shun An Chen was selected for FJU Talents 2024. Inspired by a world 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.
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Chihwen Kuo / FJU Talents 25
Instagram: @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, Kuo transforms sedimentation into tactile textile structures. Each stitch and knot becomes a trace of memory, time and accumulation.
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FJU Talents 26 at London Fashion Week
Ten years after its launch, FJU Talents continues to use London as an international meeting point for emerging Taiwanese designers and the wider fashion community.
The 2026 showcase introduces the next generation of Taiwanese fashion and textile talent while celebrating the designers who helped shape the platform’s first decade.
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Event Details
FJU Talents 26: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary*
Date: Saturday 19 September 2026
Time: 3PM
Venue: Fashion Scout
