When the talented Yi Zhou met the Prince of Venice, the Royal House of Savoy fashion line was born
- Shanghai-born, LA-based multimedia artist, influencer and filmmaker Yi Zhou launched gender-fluid brand Global Intuition last year
- When she met Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy’s last king, they created an athleisure collection
Yi Zhou is one of those rare people who seems able to do anything. A multimedia artist whose work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, a filmmaker whose short films have been screened at Sundance and Cannes, a collaborator sought after by Chanel and a model gracing the pages of Vogue.
And this envy-inducing polymath is all of 32 years old.
Born in Shanghai, Zhou moved to Rome at eight, later studied at the London School of Economics, started her art career in Paris, and was based in Hong Kong in 2015. Now in Los Angeles, she is making strides in the fashion industry with Global Intuition, the gender-fluid brand she founded last year. With sustainability at its core, the label targets Gen Z and aims to bridge the gap between fashion, branding and philanthropy.
“Global Intuition is all about slow fashion,” Zhou says by phone from LA. “The pieces are timeless and seasonless, released as drops without fashion shows – being sustainable is crucial.”
The brand’s first collection, comprising jeans, T-shirts and trainers, debuted last year at West Hollywood boutique Fred Segal.