In 2020, Wenjue launched her eponymous studio Wenjüe Lu with partner Chufeng Fang as an artist duo. Studio Wenjüe Lu seeks to restore a sense of “ slowness” to the ever-accelerating world. Though majored in fashion design, Wenjue seeks to disintegrate fashion, along with the construct known as trend. The studio shall serve as a multidisciplinary platform integrating the multiple forms of different mediums, a visual and aesthetic way to philosophize, to tell a story, to put out a statement, to disclose truths about oneself. Wenjue and Chufeng are repulsed by the idea of mechanically reproduced commodities, and prefer treating each of their output as individual work of art, made by hand and felt by heart. Insisting on design and craft on a hands-on basis, Studio Wenjüe Lu devoted itself to emphasizinig the rediscovery and the re-cherishing of craftsmanship and folk spirit while respecting the natural state of different fibers, shades, and textures. Infusing its ongoing exploration of their philosophy of life born within the process into the creations. We seek to restore a sense of “slowness” to the ever-accelerating world. Wenjüe Lu was founded in 2020 seeking to recover what is being overlooked by this fast-paced time. Through combining authentic traditions across communities, while retaining their unique historical and cultural significance, with the aesthetic of contemporary art driven by emotive expressions to become an artistic entity that defies singular definition, to become "Neither"— focusing simultaneously and inter-sectionally on studio art, garments, cross-medium collaborations, communal happenings, and cultural workshops. We’re driven by a Daoist worldview, we see what we do as attempts of philosophical inquiries, ultimately. Our annual garment offerings belongs to one permanent collection. Carried by the likes of Dover Street Market and Net-A-Porter, we also directly offers our creations right here on our site. From cotton, silk, to linen, hemp… Adopting natural-fibered fabrics as one of the various rhetorical devices within the Wenjüe Lu language, our works wish to be embodiments of a Daoist sense of naturalness rather than artificially materialistic goods to be consumed and discarded. We believe in the eternal companionship between garment and body. What remains in the end returns to the land; the garment collections are made with the intention for each piece to last, with every use, every wear, eventually outliving manufactured despair through our continuously attempts to endlessly repair. Through Wenjüe Lu’s Lifelong Mending Initiative, create ever-lasting memories, with care. Wenjue Lu & Chufeng Fang Bio Using soft sculptures, fiber art in conjunction with dreamscape and poetry, Wenjue Lu and Chufeng Fang function as an artist duo seeking to provoke through the disguised plainness of natural-colored fibers. Born in Beijing and Jieyang, China respectfully, Wenjue obtained her B.F.A. in fashion design at Parsons School of Design while Chufeng obtained his B.A. in media and culture at NYU. They began working together since 2021 under the moniker "Studio Wenjüe Lu", exploring the relationship between stillness, fragility, anxiety, and in an ever-accelerating world. Artist Statement “The works produced by our bodies are a result of letting go. We’re repelled by a vision, a giant spinning wheel fueled by acceleration.”