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
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
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
“This is the real Shanghai,” offered a new Shanghainese friend after Samuel Guì Yang’s fall 2024 fashion show, which marked the designer’s return to the runway since July of 2022. The space was a Shikumen-style mansion that served as a school back in the ’20s, the heyday of the architectural style that first appeared in … 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
Ok What do St. Augustine de Canterbury, a corporate girlboss, and a raver creature of the night have in common? Time. Its passing, its unforgiving nature, and its propensity for promoting change and transformation. What they also have in common, at least within the confines of Shanghai Fashion Week and this one pocket of the … Read more
Xander Zhou framed this fall 2024 collection as “high-tech couture,” and titled it “Sciremony,” a hybrid of “science” and “ceremony.” “I call it couture because I want people to know I take this collection seriously,” said the Beijing-based designer after his show, “but I also want to show a different approach for menswear, using scientific … Read more
Louis Shengtao Chen has many, many feelings. “This season the woman is getting mad,” the designer said backstage after his fall 2024 show in Shanghai. “She’s a little bit crazy, she’s angry!” Like every season, Chen explained, the woman in question is the female version of himself. So what is he angry about? A looming feeling … Read more
Let’s set the scene: Miranda has just broken up with Steve, and is spending her first New Year’s Eve alone (alone with Chinese food—if you know, you know). Carrie is in her apartment sleeping when Miranda rings her to chat. “Auld Lang Syne” starts to play in the background, a tearjerker for those familiar with … Read more
