Meet the Team
The Creators behind the House of Alvin Universe
Alvin Ho
Alvin leads House of Alvin’s creative universe — from couture concept to final image. With operational grounding at Christian Dior Couture and a marketing foundation shaped at Google, he brings both artistry and structure to every piece. Having grown up enamoured by princesses, heroines, mythology, and fairytales, Alvin designs with an ethereal elegance that feels cinematic rather than costume: pieces that dress dreamers like they’ve lived a thousand lives — meticulously built, flawlessly finished, and impossible to forget.
Founder & Creative Director
Ling Chen
Ling leads the House of Alvin client experience with the discretion and finesse of luxury retail, informed by roles at Christian Dior Couture (Sales Consultant; Sales Intern) and a strong grounding in stakeholder-facing work through Queen Mary University of London. Earlier experience supporting senior leadership at True Decadence adds a runway-grade calm under pressure when timelines tighten and expectations climb.
Client Relations & PR Director
Zarina runs the atelier with a designer’s sensibility and a technician’s discipline—guiding each look from toile to final finish with uncompromising attention to line, fit, and detail. Her eye for refinement is strengthened by time inside Chanel (London Office / New Bond Street ecosystem) and hands-on studio experience at Andy Hillman Studios, including work commissioned for Celine (Milan) and Comme des Garçons / Dover Street Market. She brings the same exacting standard to every fitting, ensuring each piece lands with the signature House of Alvin impact.
Head of AtelierZarina Delestre
Şevval Ak
Şevval is the architectural mind behind our silhouettes—specialising in precise flat pattern drafting, drape, and bespoke construction. Her approach is shaped by performance-led training at the London College of Fashion and costume work with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, paired with ready-to-wear development experience as a design intern for GANT (via Eren Perakende). From first toile to final fit, she translates bold design into clean structure, ease of movement, and flawless balance.
Lead Patterncutter
Camilla Val Aagaard
Camilla is a tailor and couture seamstress with a rare blend of speed, precision, and finish—delivering garments that hold their shape, drape beautifully, and feel immaculate up close. Her craftsmanship is grounded in Søren Le Schmidt (Tailor & Designer) and production-side fashion experience with Opérasport, alongside backstage dressing work for Herskind and SKIMS—a mix that makes her as strong in the atelier as she is in show conditions. She is also set to join Chanel in 2026, reflecting the calibre and consistency she brings to House of Alvin today.
Lead Couture Seamstress
Samantha brings a materials-led sensibility to the atelier, with a womenswear practice rooted in leatherwork and experimental technique — from laser cutting and wet moulding to fabric manipulation and metalwork. She trained in Fashion Design at De Montfort University (specialising in Leather for Womenswear) and has been recognised through awards with the Worshipful Company of Leather Sellers and the Worshipful Company of Curriers, alongside industry-facing finalist placements including Fashion & ASBCI and Epson.
Couture Studio AssistantSamantha Gillet-Jones
Alvin’s Designer Statement
Across cultures, myths and legends are the stories that quietly bind us. As a child, I clung to them — to King Arthur, the Legend of the White Snake, the constellations — as a kind of refuge while I wrestled with questions of self and belonging. I disappeared into books on history and civilisation, drawn to worlds that felt vast enough to hold every version of me: the opulence of Marie Antoinette’s court, the command of Wu Zetian in China’s Tang Dynasty, the splendour of the Maharaja of Patiala’s jewels. In those figures and those eras, I found not only beauty, but permission — a place where imagination wasn’t frivolous, but vital.
Fashion became the meeting point of everything I loved. It is a language where form is inseparable from theatre, music, and art; where what we wear is never merely surface, but narrative. For millennia, clothing has been a kind of storytelling — a way of signalling class, desire, identity, ambition. I have always been fascinated by fashion’s relationship to the human body: how it can augment, distort, conceal, reveal; how it can create illusion in service of politics, ideals, stereotypes, and social rules. It is simultaneously intimate and public, personal and performative — a living archive of who we are and who we wish to become.
That fascination is what led me to build House of Alvin — my own universe, populated by characters who dress as though they’ve lived a hundred lives. I presented my first collection at eleven, and since then the craft has been less a path than an inevitability; it has shaped how I see the world, and how I survive it. At the centre of the house is transformation: silhouettes that shift, reveal, conceal, and reconfigure — garments engineered not only to be worn, but to evolve. We take the romance and grandeur of fashion history and merge it with experimental technique, using couture not as nostalgia, but as a tool to tell new stories with ancient emotional weight.
Last year, at twenty-one, I came close to closing the label. Years of stagnation and external pressures had made it feel impossible to keep going. I decided to create one final collection — Antoinette 1999 — as a love letter to the era that first taught me what fashion could be. What happened next was unexpected: our design language found its way to millions. House of Alvin grew from 1,000 followers in April 2025 to over 160,000 today. Our work has attracted stylists including Law Roach, placing us in conversation with artists such as Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Madonna, Megan Thee Stallion, and Paris Hilton. We’ve been featured in Tatler, ELLE, and Harper’s Bazaar.
But beyond the names and the numbers, what moves me most is what the house has become: a community of people who love fashion as a form of possibility — people unafraid to fight for what their heart wants, and who still believe in dreaming without apology. House of Alvin is, and has always been, an invitation into that dream.
