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Ruohan Nie’s Shanghai label brings its devotion to simplicity to exaggerated, sculptural knitwear — a liberating collection rooted in craft, shown on the Paris calendar.

Five lines drawn from the Chinese elements — metal, wood, water, fire and earth — cut in natural fibers left in their original hues or dyed with plant pigments. A partner collection selected by our editors.

A first collection shown at fifteen, apprenticeships at Oscar de la Renta and Proenza Schouler, and a New York-produced line now carried by Neiman Marcus — the Houston-raised designer threads Persian and American reference points through precise tailoring and confident color.

A rigid, biomimetic handle refined through more than twenty prototypes, built at a two-generation Florentine atelier with 18-karat gold-plated hardware forged in Arezzo — an accessory where the engineering is the ornament.