The 23-year-old designer was the youngest featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s In America: a Lexicon of Fashion exhibition, recognizing her whimsical brand as something truly special.
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These two designs were rather fittingly created by the youngest designer featured in the exhibition, 23-year-old Olivia Cheng, for her label Dauphinette. When asked what this accomplishment means to her, the New York-based Cheng answers in perfect ingenue fashion. “In a beautiful way, it kind of freaks me out,” she says. “I wouldn’t say it made me a more confident designer or anything else because it was so far out of the zone of what I thought I would accomplish.
Working with resin, however, is not for the faint of heart. The material can be toxic to work with when the fumes are inhaled, but it was important to Cheng to source resin that would be safe to work with. “We only work with a Japanese company that makes a 100% nontoxic, sun-curing resin—one of the only truly nontoxic resins available,” she says. “We require that this be the only resin used in our studio jewelry production and also require that all of our manufacturing partners use it.
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