After graduating from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts and earning her master’s degree at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Huilin Chen worked on jewelry designs for several established brands before joining Yoru Studio.

At Yoru, she began leading the design of a women’s collection originally planned for September 2026. Her approach centered on observing nature and translating its forms, movement, and imperfect beauty into jewelry.

As she shared the ideas and designs behind the first collection, a thought emerged:

“Why not give this a world of its own?”

The collection had developed its own identity, and we decided to give it room to grow. From there, Nagi Archive was born, with Huilin’s observations of nature at the heart of its design. Nagi [凪] means “calm” in Japanese, and it is the brand ideology that the beauty and the perfectly imperfection of the nature eventually grows into calmness and balance.