ABOUT

Kaitherine Chang grew up in Taiwan, in art schools — fine art was her whole education before fashion entered the picture. She came to New York to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and arrived already knowing how to see. What she wanted to make was clothing that worked like an accessory.

The logic started with Lego: how something can be built, taken apart, and become something else entirely. Chang's first collection in 2015 was a corset designed to detach into separate wearable pieces — clothing that functioned as accessories. When she relaunched in 2021, she reached for Chinese knot, a technique rooted in her own Taiwanese upbringing. The butterfly knot caught the most attention. From there the work expanded into the territory she had always been drawn to: the creative object, the accessory that makes you look twice, the absurd. Basketball Purses — a real mini basketball inside a rhinestone net hoop — came from that instinct. So did Rich Object 貴重物品, a 3D printing collection of sculptural bags conceived as objects before they're anything else, developed after her move to Los Angeles.

Growing up, she was always drawn to a certain kind of accessory — the unexpected, the eye-catching, the kind that makes you stop. She started making her own in college, decorating phone cases by hand. The eye for the interesting, the unexpected — that never changed.

Chang's work has been featured in Steve Aoki and Sevyn Streeter's music videos, worn by Nikita Dragun and the band MotherMary, and covered across multiple issues of Petite Mort magazine — including its cover. In 2023, her work was exhibited at The Museum of Sex, New York, in collaboration with Bond Hardware New York.