Lu’u Dan Spring 2025 Menswear Collection

Lu’u Dan Spring 2025 Menswear Collection

Two days ahead of the Lu’u Dan showroom visit, I was walking down rue Saint Martin when I spotted founder and designer, Hung La, seated at a table outside playing mahjong—his well-acknowledged pastime. Later that afternoon, I began seeing Lu’u Dan campaign posters in different parts of the city, featuring two portraits from some underworld. … Read more

Lu’u Dan Fall 2024 Menswear Collection

Lu’u Dan Fall 2024 Menswear Collection

Hung La, the Vietnamese-American co-founder of Kwaidan Editions and the designer behind this bad-boy brand—its name means “dangerous man” in Vietnamese—brought his sixth collection to Paris this week, taking over a small gallery in the arty-scruffy upper reaches of the rue Saint Martin. An engineer by training, La earned his stripes working at Balenciaga in … Read more