About

Kun Hong is a designer, writer, (occasional) artist, and activist based in New York City. Originally born in Xiamen, Fujian, China, she moved to Houston, Texas with her family as a tween. Kun started to sketch, paint, and draw at a young age, well before she had learned to read and/or write. Despite moving between homes and across continents as a child, this continuous training and involvement in the visual arts remained constant in her life.

Intrigued with the fabrication of meaning through form, Kun grounds her expressions in the established, transcultural system of sartorial semiotics. As a graduate of Parsons, her works juxtapose and weave together globalized references from social, historical, and political research, subtly addressing and dissecting the ongoing experiences and habitus of individuals in intersectional communities such as herself. In each of her fashion collections, Kun presents clothing and objects with strong anthropological interests contexted in discernible subject matter, with the goal of cultivating an open discourse on the psychological ontology of contemporary wearers.

Aside from leading her own projects and brand, Kun works as a freelance pattern maker, technical designer, and stylist. She frequently collaborates with artists from different disciplines as their co-creator and textile/garment-based material fabricator. In her personal time, Kun is dedicated to volunteering at local family emergency shelters and can be seen voicing feminist concerns in the US and China both online and offline.