Photography by Zandy Mangold

Let’s face it, not every “club kid” even has a résumé, let alone one that includes YSL, Calvin Klein, Francisco Costa, and Narcisco. Since moonlighting as one-third of the infamous costumed club troop SixSixSick, designer Feng-Feng Yeh (appropriately pronounced Fun-Fun Yeah) has struck out on her own to produce a stunning Spring collection for her debut label Savant.
     Inspired by “medical braces at the turn of the century,” the collection plays beautifully with metaphor, a fleshy palette, ribcage-inspired looks, resin buttons molded from Benadryl tablets, and a bold necklace that mimics a jawbone with pearl teeth. From beneath the neon party flier abyss, Yeh has emerged as the talented party-monger-cum-fashion-designer to watch. While learning the trade through myriad internships, Yeh credits her experiences abroad with teaching her to channel out-of-the-box thinking into her work. Though she studied at FIT, it was her studies abroad at Polimoda in Italy where Yeh did “projects I probably never would have done in NY.” Curriculum vitae aside, boasting Leigh Lezark front row and Ben Cho as mentor pretty much makes you the coolest chick downtown, right? “I’m glad I partied,” Yeh says of her nightlife past. “I had fun, but also networked with a lot of creative people who are helping me now.” With her first collection still riding high from rave reactions, Yeh’s thoughts are drifting to the next. “One of the inspirations next season is black-figure Etruscan pottery — I can’t wait to play with that.”