Tea dyed with Wulong, red tea, and Pu-er blend for 2 hours
Rust water treatment for natural patina
Lining: 60% linen, 40% cotton
Handmade in Fengtai, Beijing
Detail Tea Staining
Tea Staining Detail
Natural Dye Process
Wulong, red tea, Pu-er blend
2 hour dye bath process
Rust water patina treatment
Sleeve Construction
Construction Detail
Handmade Process
Asymmetrical sleeve construction
French seam finishing
Handmade in Fengtai, Beijing
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Look 2
Full Length Draped Form
Wool & Mulberry Silk Blend Coat
Full Length Coat
70% wool, 30% mulberry silk from Zhejiang province
Natural dyed with Dioscorea cirrhosa for 3 weeks
Lining: 60% linen, 40% cotton
Handmade in Fengtai, Beijing
Natural Dye Detail
Natural Dye Process
Dioscorea Cirrhosa
3 week natural dyeing process
Color variation through controlled oxidation
Traditional Chinese dyeing technique
Texture Close-up
Fabric Texture
Silk & Wool Blend
Zhejiang province silk weaving
Hand-selected wool fibers
Natural drape and movement
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Look 3
Full Form En Pointe
467 Feathers Ballet Tutu
Ballet Tutu Dress
467 real goose feathers, naturally shed and collected
Sourced from a farm in Zhejiang province
Each feather hand-selected for texture and luminosity
Bodice: silk taffeta with boning structure
Handmade in Fengtai, Beijing
Feather Detail
Feather Construction
Natural Selection
Hand-selected goose feathers
Natural shedding collection
Individual placement and attachment
Movement Study
Movement Study
Liberation Dance
467 moments of flight
Freedom through movement
Breaking physical and metaphorical cages
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Look 4
Full Look With Victoria
Vintage German Leather Trench
Trench Coat
Vintage horse leather from wartime era
Hand burnt dress hat with controlled fire treatment
Photographed with Victorian doll accessory
Handmade in Fengtai, Beijing
Burnt Hat Detail
Fire Treatment
Controlled Burning
Hand-controlled fire treatment
Creating natural aging patterns
Unique texture development
Leather Patina
Vintage Patina
Wartime Heritage
Natural aging over decades
Historical leather preservation
Authentic wartime materials
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Look 5
Full Suit Tailored
Double Breasted Stripe Suit
Tailored Suit
100% wool woven in Italy
Bespoke tailoring with custom stripe pattern
Metal hardware and accessories
Silk lining
Handmade in Fengtai, Beijing
Metal Spiky Ties Detail
Metal Hardware
Hand-Forged Details
Custom metal spike attachments
Hand-forged construction
Functional and decorative elements
Stripe Pattern
Custom Stripe Pattern
Bespoke Tailoring
Italian wool weaving
Custom pattern development
Precision stripe alignment
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The child I left behind
was never lost—
she was waiting.
liberation. reclamation. return.
Every cage I built around her
became the blueprint
for my own freedom.
To free yourself
is to remember:
you were never the prison—
you were always the key.
The Moment of Liberation All five guardians witness
the child's return
to herself
This collection is not for sale.
It is for remembering.
It is for coming home.
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The Story of a Name
rèn chí
任驰
Names carry the weight of destiny, they say. Mine was born twice—first as Ren Chi, then reborn as Ren Pei when I was but a child whose body knew only sickness, whose spirit flickered like candlelight in wind.
huó fó
活佛
A tulku, keeper of ancient wisdom, examined the architecture of my soul and found it lacking. Among the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, earth—the earth was absent. Tu, the foundation, the grounding force that anchors all life. Without it, I was adrift, my immune system a house built on shifting sand.
jīn
金
mù
木
shuǐ
水
huǒ
火
tǔ
土
the eternal dance
péi
培
So they gave me Pei—earth nestled within the character, tu as the radical that would root me to this world. My body healed, grew strong, but something else was buried in that healing. The child who drew with wild abandon, whose hands moved like prayers across paper, who saw the world in colors that had no names—she disappeared.
jī lěi
积累
For years, I walked through life wearing the name that saved me, yet mourning the one that defined me. Drawing—my first language, my truest tongue—became a ghost I could not touch. Until the day I understood: every loss is also an accumulation, every change a ji lei, a gathering of what we need to become whole.
Now I reclaim Ren Chi—not as rebellion against healing, but as integration of all I am. The sick child and the strong woman. The artist who was lost and the creator who was found. The name that grounds me and the name that sets me free.
there is no fear in the true self
This brand is my completion song. Each garment holds space for the identities we've shed, the memories we've buried, the inner children who wait patiently for our return. We are all walking museums of ourselves—every scar a story, every choice a thread in the tapestry of becoming.
Let the first sentence flow, and all else follows. There is no regret here, only recognition. No endings, only transformations. We dress not just the body we inhabit today, but the body that holds all our yesterdays and all our tomorrows.
yuán mǎn
圆满
Wholeness is not the absence of breaking,
but the art of mending with gold.
