FASHIONALLY will collaborate with fashion designer-turned-doll maker Yam Chan to organize the first art exhibition – MICH‧ALLY – at Hong Kong Fashion Week this January, which will be showcasing Chan’s MICH doll.

Hong Kong fashion designer Yam Chan is a man of many talents, having worked as a designer, stylist and visual merchandiser for Lane Crawford in Hong Kong, and as a design assistant for JW Anderson in London. After graduating from the Caritas Bianchi College of Careers, he joined TVB to work as a costume designer in 2008. Having won the Hong Kong Fashion Designers Association’s Young Talent Award, he launched his label YAMKOCHT at a runway show in 2010.

Currently living in Taiwan, Chan has now turned his attention to creating handmade dolls, which he considers a more direct avenue for self expression.

He started making dolls when a friend recommended it to him after he moved to Taipei two and a half years ago. “I’ve always been a huge Toy Story fan so I started making replicas of those characters,” he said. Comprising 24 replicas, which are 100 percent handmade, Chan’s Toy Story collection took a year to complete. The dolls have been exhibited in Hong Kong and Taiwan, receiving critical acclaim for their vividness, the attention to detail and intricate workmanship.

“While I was making the Toy Story dolls, I began to get drawn to scary dolls, which I found to be a way to express my innermost feelings. It was a lot of fun to come up with that mask-like face. It’s just my way to say that when we’re grown up, we become shackled and are often afraid to speak our minds,” Chan elaborates.

It took him six months to complete the design of MICH, having experimented with different body parts. “I enjoyed it the most when I was finally colouring it. It was really coming to life at that moment,” he recalls.

The designer is currently developing another character that he envisages to be even more extreme and mask-like, and plans to explore ball-jointed techniques to make monster-like dolls.

For this collaboration with FASHIONALLY, Chan will showcase his creative process during MICH’s creation, featuring the dolls, his tools and illustrations. MICH, meaning myself in German, is an embodiment of the designer. Chan will also style a life-size version of his MICH doll, which will wear the latest FW19 designs of FASHIONALLY designers.

Visit the MICH‧ALLY Exhibition at Hong Kong Fashion Week from 16-17 January at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.


MICH‧ALLY Exhibition Opening
Yam Chan will have sharing session about the creation of MICH.
DATE: 16 JANUARY, 2019 (WED)
TIME: 14:00

RSVP at lifestyle@hktdc.org

MICH‧ALLY Exhibition
DATE: 16 JANUARY, 2019 | 9:30 - 18:00
DATE: 17 JANUARY, 2019 | 9:30 - 17:00
VENUE: FASHIONALLY STREET, HALL 1C, HKCEC

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