CLEAR TO RAIN

Black Sheep

cleartorain

Location

shanghai / china

University

ifa paris

Graduation year

2016

Main Manufacturing Countries

china

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JIN FIONA YAN WAS GRADUATED FROM UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, MAJORED IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. STUDIED FASHION DESIGN IN IFA PARIS, BEING GRADUATED IN 2016.
IN 2018, FIONA JOINED THE PROTEGÉ PROGRAM OF CONDE NAST, THEN LAUNCHED A PERSONAL FASHION SHOW OF THE FIRST COMMERCIAL COLLECTION-“MELTING NEON” AS THE FINAL PRESENTATION. AT THE END OF 2018, FOUNDED THE INDEPENDENT FASHION BRAND-CLEAR TO RAIN.
JOINED “CHINA FASHION ASSOCIATION“ IN 2020, BEING SHORTLISTED AS THE YOUNG TALENT OF THE 9TH 10+3 SHOWROOM OF CHINA FASHION WEEK.
IN 2021, FIONA JOINED “GREEN FASHION ALLIANCE” WHICH WAS LAUNCHED BY WWD CHINA, TAKING “SUSTAINABILITY” AS A COMMITMENT INTO THE FU- TURE DESIGN.

CLEAR TO RAIN WAS ORIGINATED FROM WEATHER. THE BRAND NAME WAS A TERM OF WEATHER FORECAST. “CLEAR TO RAIN” IS A GENERAL NATURAL PHENOMENON, ALSO A CHANGING STATE.

THE BRAND BREAKS THE TRADITIONAL WAY TO SEE CLOTHES AND WEATHER, PURSUING TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WITH A REAL AND ORGANIC VIEW. WE EXPLORE THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATURE AND INDIVIDUAL, FEELING THE INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT ON OUR EMOTIONS, AIMING TO CREATE CLOTHES GIVING THE SENSE OF SAFETY AND CONFIDENCE, EMPOWERING PEOPLE WITH BRAVE, EASE AND FREE MIND TO EXPRESS THE TRUE-SELF.

Latest Collection

90s

The collection was generated during lockdown in Shanghai. I was like all the other citizens in Shanghai, being quarantined for two months from April to June this year. I want to think about the reason, not just for the Covid, but also for why we had to isolate in that way. the old pictures of 90s drove me look back to feel the connection with the 90s in China which was also the age of transformation. Chinese people facing subversive changing. All kinds of new things poured into people’s life. They were fresh, strong, intense, lively, distinctive, pioneering, some kind of quirky and dangerous.I was little during that time. Most of my memories are reminded and inspired from the pictures of my parents and aunts. My feelings about 90s was given by the women of my family. They were like super stars, enabling the life beautiful and vivid. They had the most common qualities with all the Chinese women at that time who were pure, natural and true, began to self express, tried to be bold and independent, whereas simultaneously ambivalent, standing at the boundary between tradition and rebel, being confused by TOO MANY CHANGING HAPPENED IN A WHILE, but not able to find the answer. The Chinese women in 90s also saw and experienced the growing of fashion. The styles they put on made the age glittering.

Previous collections

Melting Neon

Rainfall

Untying ribbons

Latest Collection

90s

Previous collections

Melting Neon

Rainfall

Untying ribbons

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