07/31/09 - Savant is the debut New York womenswear label by founder and head designer Feng-Feng Yeh (pronounced Fun-Fun Yay). A native of Tucson, Arizona, Yeh moved to New York in 2002 to study fashion design at Fashion Institute...

Savant is the debut New York womenswear label by founder and head designer Feng-Feng Yeh (pronounced Fun-Fun Yay). A native of Tucson, Arizona, Yeh moved to New York in 2002 to study fashion design at Fashion Institute of Technology and for a year in Florence, Italy, at Polimoda Institute of Fashion Design and Marketing, the top fashion design school in Italy.

During her studies at F.I.T, Yeh worked as an intern for Francisco Costa at Calvin Klein and upon graduation, worked briefly for designer Narciso Rodriguez. It was friend and mentor Benjamin Cho who encouraged Yeh to nurture and pursue her design ambitions.

Yeh is also a figure in downtown New York nightlife. As one-third of the infamous costumed party, Six Six Sick, Yeh won last years Best New Party at Paper Magazines Nightlife Awards.

Yeh´s designs for the party sparked much interest and were published in fashion magazines such as Metro Pop Magazine, Paper Magazine, and Conde Nast´s Fashion Rocks Magazine. The thrill of designing Six Six Sick´s weekly costumes inspired Yeh´s creation of Savant.

Yeh debuted the Savant Spring/Summer 2009 collection at New York Fashion Week, September 5th, 2008, at the Midtown Lumber Building in Chelsea. She currently works at Yves Saint Laurent.