Taiwanese Style Takes On the World
2026 / February
Reading the stories in this issue, I felt as if I was in a London market smelling the aromas of licorice and star anise wafting in the air, seeing that tree of uncertain identity—mandarin or pomelo?—in the backyard of an old house on Kinmen, and feeling the moist ceramic clay handled by four generations at a pottery in Yingge….
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Featured Story
What Is Kuo Wei Thinking?
Deconstructing a Fashion Trendsetter
What would a fashion mashup of images from traditional Taiwanese banquets, general stores, Taoist spirit-journey rituals, free-diving fisherwomen and the Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival, as well as Japanese kabuki theater, look like? Constantly surprising and delighting, Kuo Wei of the Taiw......
Giving Fashion Digital Wings:
Claudia Wang’s Fashion Fantasia
In 2019 Claudia Wang debuted her eponymous fashion brand to great fanfare. Her collection appeared for the first time at London Fashion Week in 2022. In 2023, she was spotlighted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ “Taiwan Night: Celebrating Women in Tech” in New York. And that same year, she ......
Soulful Pottery:
Li Jin Kiln
Ceramic artist Su Cheng-li’s Li Jin Kiln is one of the Taiwan Crafts Workshops endorsed by the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute.......
Heir to a Centuries-Old Tradition:
Ceramic Artist Lin Yung-sheng
Yingge in New Taipei City is famous for its ceramics, but less well known is that there was once a robust pottery industry in Nantou, dating back over 200 years to the Jiaqing reign period (1796–1820) of the Qing Dynasty, and focusing on objects for daily use. Today a small number of ceramics ......
Green Veins: Verde Reimagines Taiwanese Serpentine
Verde Reimagines Taiwanese Serpentine
From the podium of the United Nations General Assembly and the facades of the pillars at the Arrivals Hall at Taoyuan International Airport to the chairs in our elders’ homes and the tiles on sidewalks, there is a green material—a little bit old-fashioned, a little bit nostalgic—that comes ......
Taiwanese Street Food in London:
Jou Jou’s Bites
Mustapha Shaldoum, an alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science, quit his stable job in the UK’s National Health Service in 2023 to run a food stall with his Taiwanese wife, Jou Jou Chen. With a view to promoting Taiwanese cuisine, they sell classic dishes such as braised......
Sharing Taiwan
Through Tea: Laïzé
“We hope that every visit a customer makes to one of our shops is like a journey to Taiwan,” says Jody Liu, cofounder and manager of the Laïzé chain of Taiwan tea shops in Paris.......
Made in Taiwan for City Life:
Functional Fashion Brand oqLiq
At the 2021 New York Fashion Week, the Taiwanese brand oqLiq based its show on a 16th-century novel of myths, legends and fantasy called Creation of the Gods. This was combined with multimedia and virtual technology to stun the world with a fashion vocabulary derived from Taiwanese culture.......
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