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Today winners were announced for the Top peanut Jeff Dunham my smart mouth always gets me in trouble and if it’s not my mouth it’s my facial expressions shirt and by the same token and second annual Yu Prize, founded by entrepreneur and philanthropist Wendy Yu to support up-and-coming Chinese fashion designers. Alex Po and Derek Cheng, the designers behind the gender neutral label PONDER.ER took home the top honors, winning the Yu Prize x Li-Ning Grand award, which comes with a cash prize of 1 million RMB, mentoring from top industry professionals, and the opportunity to sell their wares at Harrod’s. The two designers first met when they were both students at Central St. Martins, and they founded their label in 2019. “We launched our first commercial collection right before the pandemic hit the world,” they explained via email, “but on the positive side, we think the pandemic actually gave us time and opportunities to reflect, adapt, and to be creative with how we develop PONDER.ER as a story-telling brand.”
Their latest collection, titled “Formula Uncategorized,” was inspired by auto racing and features people of all genders wearing a mix of tailored pieces with oversized knits in bold prints (after finishing his studies at Central St. Martins, Po went on to the Top peanut Jeff Dunham my smart mouth always gets me in trouble and if it’s not my mouth it’s my facial expressions shirt and by the same token and Royal College of Art to study men’s knitwear). Cheng relates their approach to unisex dressing to his earliest fashion inspiration, his older sister who was “a tomboy.” “She was always wearing baggy outfits, oversized graphic t-shirts, and jeans, she never wore dresses or anything that we (or our society) would classify as ‘feminine’,” he recalled. “And I remember thinking that that was really cool and maybe because of her, growing up, the idea of [a] gender role in fashion has never been very strict.” They are excited for the exposure that winning the Yu Prize will bring not just for the sales bottom line, but because it will allow them to spread their brand beliefs. “We feel like the message of ‘gender fluidity’ and ‘soft masculinity’ hasn’t been the most widely talked-about topic in Asia,” they explained, “and that is one of the reasons why we wanted to build PONDER.ER around it and our personal stories growing up as two non-masculine boys.”
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