Refuse Club are a New York Based RTW brand launched in 2019 by two friends, Yuner Shao and Stef Puzhen Zhou both graduates from Parsons. Taking it’s name from the historic Salon Des Refuses, Refuse Club is a place to share uncompromising aesthetics and diverse cultural/political conversations.
Zhou and Shao launched the brand as a commentary on social issues related to their identity as female and as Chinese, which have been recently mentioned on Vogue.com highlighting the fact that in their home country of China, the government is still silencing the #MeToo movement.
