Christine Phung is an award winning French fashion designer. After studying at the École Duperré, and at the Institut Français de la Mode, she worked for fifteen years for houses including See by Chloé, Baby Dior, Vanessa Bruno, Christophe Lemaire, Lacoste, Veja, and Georges Rech. Since 2016, she is the Creative Director of the house Leonard.
In 2008, she exhibited her designs at the museum of Modern Art in Liège for the biennale of design show. In 2011, she won the Grand Prix of design for the City of Paris and was a finalist in 2012 Mango Fashion Awards. In 2013, she won the prestigious ANDAM prize in the category “Premières Collections”.
In nine collections Christine Phung has created a signature style that lies between strict elegance and luxury sportswear. Her designs are architectural, fluid and colourful at the same time. Pieces are both delicate and boldly architectural, fitting for a “super-active” woman: one that is in constant motion; serious but liberated. A contemporary woman that wears colours gracefully and explores digital aesthetics. Christine Phung’s collections are made up of graphic compositions; the fabric designs themselves (structured pleats, cubist patchworks, geometrical embroideries, tweeds like metal) found in the trimmed cuts, shaped fits, triangles and diamond shaped drawings; and finally in the prints. Every collection sees a renovation of patterns from geometrical stains, digital dots to savages patterns, all directly inspired from the digital arts.

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“The woman I dress is an explorer. She constantly wanders to new places and new spaces; among which is the digital space which does not scare her as she navigates between digital and reality. Therefore, what she wants is a wearable yet creative outfit that plays with assertive futuristic codes incorporating balance.”
