BACKSTAGE: FJU TALENTS X FASHION SCOUT

London Fashion Week just got a Taiwanese plot twist. FJU Talents rolled into Fashion Scout with four designers proving that knitwear isn’t just for your nan, flipping knitwear and silhouettes into something way moodier, stranger, and sexier than you’d expect.

Chih-Wen Kuo / Wayne Knitted
Kuo is basically a textile archaeologist. His collection Sedimentation takes the slow build-up of rocks, memories, and moments and traps them in sweaters. Knots become timelines, stitches become fossils. It’s like wearing the strata of the earth, except, instead of crumbling limestone, it’s soft, sculptural knits that look like future relics.

Juan-Juan Xu / juanpak.o
Xu’s Inter-Shadow is interpersonal drama as fashion. Imagine silhouettes shifting like people ghosting each other, patterns morphing like a conversation that’s gone weird. The clothes feel intimate but slightly out of reach, sleek but unsettled. It’s basically the outfit version of scrolling someone’s Instagram at 3 am and feeling both connected and completely alone.

Yi-Zhen Lin / E.JEN
Lin’s Vivid Swirl is a kaleidoscope you can actually wear. Ribbed knits twist and stretch around the body, colour-blocked like a trippy lava lamp. The pieces curve and cling in all the right places, balancing softness and strength so you look like you’re glowing from the inside out. It’s femme, it’s playful, and it knows exactly how to catch the light.

Ying Chu / Chuoru
Chu is the poet of the group. Her Liminal Forms collection drifts through black, grey, and white gradients, evoking Taiwanese imagery of the soul’s journey after death. The knits float and dissolve like smoke signals or incense trails, heavy with meaning but light on the body. They’re eerie and elegant, clothes that make you feel like you’re halfway here, halfway in another dimension.

Bottom line: Taiwan’s new wave isn’t whispering, it’s knitting, twisting, and flexing hard on the London runway.

Words by Lewis Robert Cameron

Backstage Photography by Nici Eberl @nicieberlphoto


Designers: 
@fjutalents 
@wayne_knitted
@juanpak.o_studio
@ejen_studio_
@chuoru.studio



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