Songlan Wu is a textile artist and fashion designer focusing on sustainable/slow fashion explorations via drawing, knitting, crochet, embroidery, natural dye, and hand sewing. She seizes inspiration and enlightenment from everyday life in a mixed culture environment with her Asian background, including but not limited to self-expression on nostalgia, women’s power in marginalized minority groups, social justice, and academic studies in different fields.

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Songlan was born and raised in Mainland China, then came to the States to pursue her interests in the fashion industry. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design at Pratt Institute and a Master of Science in Business Analytics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She had worked for established fashion brands such as Anna Sui and Nili Lotan in Manhattan and gained significant experience in skills and social connections.

 

Her recent art projects “Ocean” and “DATA” has been featured in online and print art /fashion magazines such as Contributor, Arttells, Stylecruze, 17:23, etc. The textile dresses “Transparency” and “Info” got invited to photograph for the magazine L’OFFICIEL Argentina Aug/Sep sustainable cover.