Boyu Yan is a Chinese jewellery designer and maker. She is a member of the Art Jewelry Forum and a 2023 Cartier Scholar. She earned her BA in Jewellery Design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2025, and is currently pursuing an MPS in Fashion Management at Parsons School of Design. With an obsession with reimagining the body, identity, and roles, her work explores the interaction between reality and fantasy.

The brand, Yan Boy, is built on her conviction, “Pockets can be worn as jewellery”. She is frustrated and annoyed every time she finds her pockets are fake or can hold nothing. Inspired by these disappointing but beautiful pockets that people carry every day in life, Boyu starts her ironic journey of representing the pockets by using the chainmail as a glamorous and playful defiant.