In front of Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the territory meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from mixing groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 worker surveys.
“This the ultimate puzzle for a designer. And, as with my couture work, my approach was to really listen to and get to know my client,” Yang said. “In this the reality it was 19,000 clients, employees with hundreds of body shapes, 13 master-work groups and sometimes 45 sizes per garment. It was very complicated, which is why I loved it.”