London —

When couture designer Robert Wun was nominated for the 2022 Andam Fashion Awards, a prestigious French honor for emerging talent previously won by Martin Margiela and Christophe Lemaire, he went to Paris for the ceremony purely as a formality. Convinced he wouldn’t win, Wun stood at the very back of the room, nursing his drink, and barely registered when his own name was called out (albeit in French) as the recipient of the Prix Spécial, the competition’s runner-up prize, which comes with a cash reward of almost $120,000. It took his team two minutes to find Wun in the crowd of attendees and ferry him onto the stage.

When reeling off his accolades — which include becoming the first Hong-Kong-born designer to be part of Paris’ exclusive haute couture schedule, designing costume

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