Chieh-Yu (Janice) Huang is a fashion designer based in London, whose practice sits at the intersection of material experimentation and critical theory. Her work is grounded in New Materialist thought, drawing on Jane Bennett, Tim Ingold, and Judith Butler, exploring how materials hold agency, memory, and the capacity to transform the body. Working primarily with liquid latex, fur offcuts, lace, metal, and animal horn, Janice works with what refuses to disappear: leather remembers, latex holds, horn outlasts the body it came from. Her recent collection interrogates themes of relic, memory, and the body, drawing on ossuaries, worn remains, and rituals of bodily processing, where decay, preservation, and transformation are held in tension: the latex skin like yet resistant, the lace fragile yet enduring, the horn cold and unyielding long after the animal is gone. Central to her practice is a "change into strength" through line, the idea that vulnerability, processed through material and ritual, becomes a source of resilience. This is reflected in her hands-on approach to making, with metal worked and rusted by hand, fur offcuts ethically sourced and personally selected, and latex built up layer by layer from liquid form, so every piece is made to be worn and moved in, not displayed as a static object. Janice's relationship to garments began early: her grandfather owned a garment factory and her grandmother was a seamstress, an inheritance that shaped her instinct for construction long before she formalised it through study. Her aesthetic has since been layered by subcultural immersion, from rave culture in Taiwan to three years in London moving between its rave, gothic, and tattoo communities, with trips to Berlin, whose art scene marked her visual language, and Egypt, whose ancient iconography of ritual and power feeds her sense of mysticism. She collects organic and found objects such as bone, silver, stone, fur, and small symbolic charms, treating them as source material and talismans. She continues to develop her practice around how materials can hold and express grief, memory, and endurance, experimenting with alternative materials in wearable pieces and collaborating with a range of multidisciplinary artists.