New York-based designer Snow Xue Gao launched her eponymous womenswear label in 2017 after she received her Master’s degree in Fashion Design and Society from Parsons School of Design. The designer’s asymmetric draping and tailored line break away from conventional definitions of feminine and masculine. Her work is influenced by her experience in the design department at Jason Wu and producing her collection under the tutelage of Martin Greenfield. After her graduation and the commercial development of the same collection, she started selling globally and showing at New York Fashion Week.

Snow Xue Gao was nominated for the LVMH Prize and the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list in 2018. She won the Swarovski & Vogue Talents New Generation Award, VFILES Runway Award, and Camera Buyer Italia Award.

Her aesthetic is heavily influenced by the beauty of tailoring and the art culture between East and West. Having grown up during the 00s in Beijing and educated in New York. Snow also relates to the collision of cultural and epochal references. “Duality” is the core of her aesthetic. Her professional and mixed culture background always prevails when it comes to consideration of the balance of garment structure and pattern.