Bena Yang

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About Bena Yang

Design is to express one’s personality, creativity and to inspire other people. This is what motivates Bena to be creative in design. She is inspired by geometric details from everyday life: people on the streets, nature, friends and family. During Bena’s studies at Kwantlen, she was exposed to different technologies that lead her interest in combining technical apparel with fashion. Bena has 4 years of technical and design training from Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She has developed different skills set that includes design research to hand and digital CAD pattern drafting to draping and technical design. Her final collection, METRIX, is an innovative menswear brand that creates functional, quality and comfortable clothing. METRIX combines formal and casual business wear with technical components such as water resistant, wrinkle-free and machine washable for the West Coast professionals working in the tech industry. Each piece is able to be dressed up or down, versatile in weather conditions and designed to be unique in its own way.