Hanqing Ding

HANQING DING is an fully knitted Fashion brand founded in 2022 by Designer Hanqing Ding. It focuses on exploring the interesting combination of the softness of knitting and its skeleton, and hopes to create the "soft but firm" female image of this century. They have uncontrollable and unknowable freedom and mystery; beading-knit as the representative knit technique for HANQING DING, constantly breaks through and explores the new vision of knitting, and faces up to the inner balance and inner rebellion in the conflict between the exquisite craftsmanship details and the free and easy destructive lines.

Hanqing Ding, the founder and creative director of HANQING DING brand, graduated with a bachelor's degree in Women's Fashion Design from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. After graduation, she pursued a Master's degree in Fashion Womenswear Knitwear at the Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom.

In the same year of her graduation, she established KnitReal Studio, a research laboratory focused on innovative knitwear design, in Shanghai. In 2022, she founded her eponymous knitwear brand, HANQING DING, and was honored as the Final Winner of the Rise Up Sustainable Design Challenge, sponsored by Eastman. Her virtual fashion collection, released that year, also won the BFW Digital Vanguard Award. Her works have been showcased at London Fashion Week and Shanghai Fashion Week, and featured in renowned media platforms such as 《Vogue》, 《BAZAAR》, 《JingDaily》,《WWD》, 《GLASS》,《Forbes》, and so on.