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Biography
Talisa Qi (pronounced "Chi") comes from a fashion family in southern China, famous from leatherware and fine furs. On arriving in England she realised that there was a great passion for customized, high quality fashion that would break away from the mass market, and provide individuals with the clothing and accessories to live a more exciting and luxurious life.

Talisa Qi is a new breed of couturier, enabled by combining her flair for design and understanding her client, together with the opportunity for fast, high quality manufacture in China at low cost. Unlike the couture houses in Paris, which are restricted to using expensive workers in France, Talisa is free to concentrate on her designs and the needs of her customer - without the restrictions of high costs.

Talisa is creating a select network of agents to market and supply her line of clothing. By cutting out expensive distribution channels and marketing budgets she believes that her designs can bring pleasure to a wider range of people than a typical small designer.

While her business is based in China, and she has customers in the USA and France, her main passion is for the UK where she finds a great deal of energy, individualism and imagination that is well suited to her creativity.

Each of her items will be a limited edition, typically of no more than ten items, sold around the world, so her creativity can be focussed where she wants - on specific clients - rather than having to please a mass volume market.