Designer C Jean Blends Modern Fashion With Ancient Japanese Dyeing

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By Eason Pan/Fuhua Hung/Alex Chen/Justin Wu/Scott Huang/Alec MacDonald/Isabel Wang/Sandy Chi

At Taipei Fashion Week, Taiwanese designer C Jean unveiled a striking collaboration with Kyoto artisans adopting roketsuzome, a thousand-year-old Japanese wax-resist dyeing technique where natural cracks in the wax create one-of-a-kind patterns.