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Titi Kwan (born in Hong Kong, February 26, 1968), a Paris multi-facet personality, a fashion designer, stylist and consultant. He studied at Studio Berçot and gained fame for being Asia pop diva Faye Wong’s “image director”.

Early life
Born in Hong Kong, Titi Kwan began in his early childhood while watching his father, a well-respected tailor, work in his atelier.

“''I don’t know if he was an influence exactly, but the fabric inspired me. I am a curious person, so I observed him to make many things by myself. I made cloths from fabric that was left over and discovered the bias cut this way.''” Then he was 6.

At age 14, Kwan moved to Paris, and four years later, he continued to acquire and refine his skills by entering Paris’ famed fashion school Studio Berçot. While studying in the day, he took a part-time job at night and weekend in order to pay his tuition.

Early Career
In mid-1990s, Kwan meet Faye Wong, at the time a young singer-songwriter, who embarked with him on a voyage to his “Wonderland”. The first outfit Kwan dressed Faye Wong was a Versace dress worn with a pair of flip flops, shocked most people at the time.

Since then Kwan has been the image director for Faye Wong.

Many said the image of Faye had influenced many designers. But Kwan has always decided to stay in the shadow, allowing the costume itself to do the magic.

“While the West has seen its fair share of celebrity stylists, no one in Asia comes close to Hong Kong’s Titi Kwan“ - South China Morning Post.

“His work has been admired by thousands, yet only a few will know his name.” - Hong Kong Tatler.

“''Hong Kong’s very own uber stylist Titi Kwan has always been a bit of an enigma. Titi has been dressing Hong Kong popstar Faye Wong for many years and is regarded as one of Asia’s top stylist and fashion visionaries, although he has always kept a low profile. I was fortunate enough to be granted an interview with him last October when he was launching his fashion collection in Paris.''“ - South China Morning Post

People often describe Titi Kwan with the word “Scattered”, in terms of his multi-tasked ability as well as his private life. Starting off from designs to stylist, all different kind of works and opportunities falls on him contemporary for no solid reason.

For instance, Kwan has been a consultant for Martine Sitbon, Christophe Lemaire, Erik Halley and BLAAK;

Kwan had been invited by Asia’s Vogue as a contributor, then he decided to experiment the photography, a 20 pages story with another untouchable Maggie Cheung, a legendary actress;

He had also been appointed by a French movie director Sylvie Verheyde as costume director for her movies ‘ un frère ‘ and ‘ Princesse’. Both film interpreted by Emma de Caunes and Jeanick Graveline, then Jean-Hugues Anglade for ‘ Princesses’;

Kwan was also a fashion director of D-Mop. Within 3 years, Kwan has transformed the two small boutiques into a major avant garde designer retailer by introducing a whole generation of designers and successfully created a new trend in Asia.

What brings him back to his teenage dream was his friend, Josie Ho’s Wedding gown; designed by Titi Kwan while Lesage executed 16 layers embroidery. Feather light result which demonstrated the perfect combination of classic and modern.

Titi Kwan Paris
In 2004, Faye Wong decided to take a four-years break from show, and this is when Titi was free to revisit his teenage dream – Fashion Design. He spent three years to cleans his mind by stopped looking at any things about fashion, aiming to create something new and different.

In 2008, he launched his first collection – Titi Kwan Paris, which caught the attention of French fashion icon and retailer Maria Luisa. The collection was exclusively sold in Maria Luisa Paris, and eventually only three display pieces were remained after two weeks.

Although this considered modern couture collection, Kwan insists he has use the very old Chinese cutting method.

Until late 2011, Kwan launched his new collection – Alibellus+

Alibellus+
Titi Kwan launched – Alibellus+ Simply means A Memorandum in Latin. SS12 Women’s was Alibellus+ debut collection, followed by and FW12 Men’s collection.