A multi-disciplinary creative with a background in Textile, Liaw hopes to fuel the discourse on social design and unify fashion, function and fun. A recipient of the esteemed Future Leadership Scholarship, Liaw has since been featured in The Straits Times, TODAY Singapore and Singapore International Foundation Magazine for her innovation in the adaptive space. Her works have made appearances in Suria’s series Interns, Wawa pictures’s Walk With Me, as well as CNA Insider’s documentary on shophouses transformed, where she designed in-room artworks and feature walls for Hotel Soloha. Her clients include Tipsy Collective, NTU Contemporary Centre for the Arts for Joan Jonas and Pilot Advisory Group.

Her interest in heritage led to a personal project with her grandmother as a part of M1 Singapore Fringe Festival under the tutelage of Amanda Heng, a Cultural Medallion recipient as a pioneer in the Arts. Liaw explores the ways in which material culture addresses our understandings of intimacy, time and cultural nuance. She presented her first performance art piece Artwork No. 203(2.03%) at Your Mother Gallery, and has collaborated across disciplines with Swarovski, Converse, Yee I-Lann and art collective Chicks on Speed. Selected as a national ambassador for the 45th run of the Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Programme (SSEAYP), Liaw also designed and produced the official cultural attires for the Singapore Contingent. She worked alongside other regional delegates to prepare for the two-month long summit hosted by the Cabinet of Japan, and was nominated by her regional peers to be a committee representative and to chair the first networking event aboard.

Liaw culminates these experiences at KapX and is working to bring to life an ecosystem of inclusive pet apparels that are easy-to-use on the fussiest of pets to realise your wildest Barbie dreams! From designing, prototyping, holding fitting sessions, pivoting, stacking tech packs, sourcing, mapping out the production pipeline and finding the right people to work with across Singapore, Bangkok and China, this journey has been absolutely Wet and Wild. Wet with tears of frustration but also very much of joy — it is no easy feat for a designer to have her ideas bankrolled and supported, and she owes it all to the superhuman team in KapX and her literally life-saving team mates in Bangkok!

Outside of work, Liaw is pursuing a diploma in piano and plays the cello in her free time. Involved in clan preservation work, she has had the fortuitous opportunity to conceptualise an item and perform for Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan’s 93rd anniversary dinner, graced by the presence of DPM Heng Swee Keat. A finalist in the world’s only clan-based Beauty Pageant in 2021, her modelling portfolio includes DGA Threads, featuring heritage apparel, 3125, a local jeweller, Nissan and Ogawa. She intends to continue her studio work in textile therapy to rethink fidget widget as bags, and apparels or jewellery grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine principles.

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