{"id":88998,"date":"2026-09-30T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88998"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:45:59","slug":"hong-kong-born-london-based-designer-katie-ko-wanted-to-be-a-ballet-dancer-what-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88998","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong-born, London-based designer Katie Ko wanted to be a ballet dancer. What changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/29\/68941709-5169-4cdf-93f5-b1c4439876f8_5ee633f6.jpg?itok=SGmtN2Ea&amp;v=1790673458\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">London-based fashion designer Katie Ko blurs the line between fashion and fine art, turning unconventional materials such as bamboo strips and preserved flowers into wearable narratives that seemingly defy gravity.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Taffeta ruffles and feather-adorned layers explode from Ko\u2019s silk bodices while other pieces evoke the elegance of porcelain.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The 26-year-old also pays homage to her hometown, Hong Kong, which she left at 18. She says her 2025 spring\/summer collection, \u201cChrysanthemum Dew\u201d, was inspired by Hong Kong brand <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Vitasoy<\/span>\u2019s chrysanthemum tea drink. \u201cI loved that growing up,\u201d she says, \u201cand I was really missing Hong Kong food.\u201d<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Ko, who founded her eponymous label in 2024, was not always into fashion; in fact, she did not pick up a needle until she was 17. She dedicated her formative years to dance and fine arts and dreamed of becoming a professional ballet dancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/article\/3369147\/hong-kong-born-london-based-designer-katie-ko-wanted-be-ballet-dancer-what-changed?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London-based fashion designer Katie Ko blurs the line between fashion and fine art, turning unconventional materials such as bamboo strips and preserved flowers into wearable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5952,1767,21708,3928,3569,17590,10326,30831,465],"class_list":["post-88998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-ballet","tag-changed","tag-dancer","tag-designer","tag-hong","tag-katie","tag-kongborn","tag-londonbased","tag-wanted","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}