YUAN YUAN (REBECCA) XU

Interdisciplinary Fashion Designer | Canada

Yuan Yuan (Rebecca) Xu is a Canadian-based interdisciplinary fashion designer whose practices combine fashion, visual arts, advertising, and architectural design. Her work is distinguished by its ability to bridge Eastern cultural traditions with contemporary design, exploring new possibilities for the reinterpretation of heritage within a modern global context.

Originally trained in advertising and graphic design, Rebecca immigrated to Canada in 2001 and has since led creative ventures across China, Canada, and the United States. Her cross-cultural experiences and multidisciplinary background have shaped a distinctive design language that combines architectural structure, artistic sensitivity, and narrative depth. Throughout her career, Rebecca has received numerous international design awards and honors, including recognition as one of Canada’s Outstanding Women and the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, commemorating the late Queen’s 70 years of service.

Rebecca’s fashion work focuses on the contemporary expression of Chinese aesthetics. Through architectural tailoring, innovative textile applications, and the reinterpretation of traditional Chinese craftsmanship, she creates wearable works that connect history with modern innovation. Her designs often draw upon personal experiences, cultural memory, and themes of identity, transforming fashion into a medium for storytelling and cultural dialogue.

In 2025, Rebecca was invited to serve as the Official Qipao Designer for the Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant, where she reimagined the traditional qipao through a contemporary lens. In the same year, she launched Chao Yuan Meng 2025, a collaborative fashion-art project inspired by the award-winning Chinese brush paintings of her daughter, Angela Tse. Through fashion and painting, the project explores intergenerational creativity, cultural continuity, and the evolving relationship between tradition and innovation.

For Rebecca, fashion is more than clothing – it is a living cultural language, a form of wearable art, and a space where memory, identity, and imagination converge.

 

Angela Tse

IAMA Award Winning Artist | Canada

Angela is a 10-year-old artist based in Canada with a deep passion for painting and clay sculpting. From an early age, she has demonstrated a keen artistic sensibility in colour, composition, and spatial awareness. In 2022, she began formal training in Chinese brush painting under Master Shen Heng.

Awards & Honors

2023

• “Earth·Environment” International Youth Art Competition – Gold Award
• 11th World Youth Live Painting Competition (Children’s Group) – First Prize

2024

• International Youth Charity Art & Entrepreneurship Competition – Gold Award
• IAMA International Youth Art Competition (Age 7–10) – First Place
• Art Utopia International Youth Painting Competition – Silver Award, Bronze Award

2025

• IAMA International Youth Art Competition (Age 7–10) – Second Place (over 3,800 entries from 65 countries)
• World Youth Drawing Competition (Children’s Group) – First Prize

Exhibitions & Media

Angela has held solo Chinese painting exhibitions at her school during the Lunar New Year for three consecutive years. In April 2024, she participated in a joint exhibition titled “Blue Comes from the Blue” at the Lipont Art Gallery, alongside her mentors Xiao Gang Wang and Heng Shen. In 2024, her work and an artist interview were featured in Reader’s Digest (North American edition).

Picture Book & Charity

At the age of five, Angela co-authored and illustrated the children’s storybook, “Mr. Crab’s 24 Amazing Days,” with her six-year-old friend Adrian. She created 20 illustrations for the book, which describes the adventures of a little blue crab and his friends over 24 wonderful days. Through charity fundraising and art auction sales, proceeds were donated to charitable organizations and B.C. Children’s Hospital. The book is available at Richmond and Vancouver public libraries.

Special Commission

In 2025, Angela was commissioned to create a Chinese painting of Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge for the Miss Chinese Vancouver pageant. The artwork was adapted onto the contestants’ cheongsam designs, beautifully blending local Vancouver imagery with traditional Chinese brush painting.