About This Collection

Hong Kong fashion designer Johanna Ho and British artist/print designer Leanne Claxton, both graduates from St. Martins present their joint collection HO:CLAXTON. Featuring a short film directed by Nick D., the unique exhibition unites art and fashion as one entity. Originally trained as a painter Leanne developed a passion for textiles design. Her organic prints and kaleidoscopic colour palette translates perfectly into digitally printed fabric, resulting in exquisite wearable art.

Johanna first approached Leanne in early 2010 when they worked together on a printed suit for CantoPop star Eason Chan. Johanna’s design and stylistic essence – a fusion of opposing elements – rock n’roll but sweet, sculptural yet romantic, fits perfectly with Leanne’s organic, almost fantasy flower paintings and prints. Johanna’s design concept for this line also focuses on eco-friendly, by using zero wastage pattern cutting techniques for each design, in which each garment has no leftover fabric wastage. This is also Johanna’s belief for her overall design concepts – to create things/(fashion) that are eco-friendly and socially-responsible.