After two seasons showing in Tokyo, Yueqi Qi brought her collection back to her native China, staging an off-calendar show on the first night of Shanghai Fashion Week. The designer described her collection as her very own “Ride of the Valkyries.” And while this nod to the Richard Wagner epic aligns with her idea of … Read more
The Peruvian designer Sandra Weil is an artist in spirit and a kind of painter by trade. The mix of natural elements is what moves her; her fall collection was titled Biolight, and was inspired by the concept of bioluminescence. “The starting point [of this collection] is the management of light and color,” she explained. … Read more
As usual, Domingo Rodríguez Lázar was inspired by Y2K nostalgia and the world of sports for the fall Dominnico collection. He was looking at après-ski style, reinventing ski suits into mini dresses, and experimenting with other pieces designed for the snow such as hats, vests, and cropped fur jackets, all in a palette of pinks … Read more
Yirantian Guo turned her fall 2024 showspace into a courtroom. Guests sat on wooden benches and had placed leather-bound briefings on each seat. If The Good Wife happened during Fashion Week, Guo’s show was exactly what that would look like. But Guo’s inspiration was not a fabricated character or a woman who exists only within … Read more
After weeks of endless gray drizzle in London (but what’s new about that), it was a tonic to step into Duro Olowu’s colorful world on a particularly gloomy Tuesday afternoon. Seated inside a friend’s flat within a historic Chelsea apartment block, and with the blazing colors of an abstract Marina Adams painting as a backdrop, … Read more
Ming Ma is a Shanghai Fashion Week OG. His label, founded in 2018, weathered the repeated storms of the pandemic and returned to the runway for the fall 2023 shows—when SHFW celebrated its 20th anniversary with its first full season back post-Covid. Since then, he’s gone a little quiet, stepping away from the runway in … Read more
Danielle Frankel describes her namesake brand as “a fashion label” whose “medium is bridal,” a minor yet important distinction that indeed manages to capture her creative output. To wit, consider that this season began with the exploration of an über down-to-earth fabric: jersey. “There are a few things that I’ve been wanting to do for … Read more
Shushu/Tong sure knows how to draw a crowd. On Sunday night at 10:30pm, there was a line for the second showing of Liushu Lei (ShuShu) and Yutong Jiang (TongTong)’s fall 2024 collection that wrapped around the block. The label has become one of Shanghai Fashion Week’s top-billing names as its closing show, and it’s easy … Read more
“Was this the highest fashion show ever done in Shanghai?,” guests wondered as they walked into Dion Lee’s fall 2024 show. The semi-surprise (more on that later) presentation was hosted on the 100th floor of the Shanghai Financial Center, one of the tallest buildings in China. After celebrating a decade of showing at New York … Read more
On the cover of Labelhood’s fall 2024 zine is a model wearing an uber-sized gray jacket, an interpretation of the traditional tangzhuang, covered in an intricate Chinese floral pattern rendered in silver embroidery. That same piece can be seen at Labelhood’s title exhibition at the Rockbund Art Museum, and it closed AO Yes’s fall 2024 … Read more
