Fashion career profile
Masha Ma
Masha Ma is a Chinese fashion designer whose practice connects London fashion education and early career experience with a later international label. She completed an MA in womenswear at Central Saint Martins in 2008, where her graduate collection was shown during London Fashion Week and purchased by the London retailer B Store. Before graduation, she interned with Véronique Branquinho and Alexander McQueen. Business of Fashion dates her namesake label to 2008 and describes its aesthetic as fluid and feminine with industrial references. An ANDAM finalist biography instead says she launched the label in 2011; the sources do not explain whether these dates describe different stages, so both remain attributed rather than collapsed. Ma presented collections in London before moving to the Paris Fashion Week calendar in 2012. That year she was selected for Vogue China and Yoox.com’s Talent Corner and took part in the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund China Exchange programme. Later interviews describe a related evolution of the label, including the MA BY MA STUDIO name used after her return to China. This profile keeps those naming and location changes attached to the designer’s career rather than treating them as verified corporate restructurings, and it distinguishes documented education and internships from formal house appointments.
- Role
- Founder & Creative Director, Masha Ma
- Nationality
- Chinese
- Age
- 41
- Label chronology: BoF: namesake label, 2008Business of Fashion dates the namesake label to 2008; the ANDAM finalist biography instead says she launched it in 2011. The sources do not resolve whether the dates refer to different stages, so both are retained with attribution. · Business of Fashion
- Label chronology: ANDAM profile: launched in 2011The ANDAM 2013 finalist biography gives 2011 as the label launch date; its wording does not explain the difference from BoF's 2008 date. · ANDAM
- Education: MA Womenswear, Central Saint Martins, 2008BoF records Ma's postgraduate womenswear degree and her graduate collection's London presentation. · Business of Fashion
- Early experience: Véronique Branquinho and Alexander McQueenBoF records internships with both designers before Ma graduated from Central Saint Martins. · Business of Fashion
- Paris Fashion Week: First official-calendar presentation, March 2012The ANDAM 2013 finalist profile records her move to Paris after three London seasons and her first Paris calendar presentation in March 2012. · ANDAM
- Vogue China / Yoox: Talent Corner recipient, 2012BoF records Ma's selection for the Vogue China and Yoox.com Talent Corner and the CFDA/Vogue China Exchange programme. · Business of Fashion
- 2008 — Completes MA at Central Saint MartinsHer graduate collection is shown during London Fashion Week and purchased by B Store.
- 2011 — ANDAM biography dates label launch to 2011The 2013 finalist biography gives this date; Business of Fashion describes the namesake label as launched in 2008. The sources do not reconcile the milestones.
- 2012 — Presents first collection on Paris Fashion Week calendarAfter showing in London, Ma makes her Paris calendar debut.
- 2012 — Selected for Vogue China / Yoox Talent CornerThe designer is selected for the Talent Corner and the CFDA/Vogue China Exchange programme.