Born and raised in China, Ying showed artistic talent at 2 years old, watching her architect Grandfather doing water colours. Going to school she began winning creative painting competitions. After completing her studies she stayed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for 2 years where she investigated folk cultures and recorded her experiences by painting.

Then she attended the Wuhan University of Textiles studying fashion design. This trip developed her acute sense of colour and she expresses feelings through different colour combinations and numerous tones. In her second year she created a collection entitled “Qinghai, a Dreamed Paradise”, which won the Golden Medal at the Chinese Young Fashion Designers contest.

She Chose knitwear because she wanted special fabrics with many colours and textures. In 2003 she was awarded a scholarship from Birmingham City University and came to England for a Masters degree, researching computerised knitting technologies in fashion design.

10 years knitting technologies knowledge enables her to plan her knitwear design in advance; She begins her design process with the knitting structure, utilising cutting theory to create shapes that are combined in the overall structure of the garment. It is inspired by life experiences taken from Tibet to Europe. Aiming to create cutting-edge knitwear pieces, interpreting the fusion of cultures between folk to urban, east to west with the handmade looks fulfilled by CAD knitting technologies.