Vis-à-Vis Duality: Daoyuan Ding’s Pansexual Wear Veers Between Vague and Veritable
Daoyuan Ding delivers distinct designs that hover between eerie and ecstasy, the poetic and the prosaic, the minimal and the maximal. Velocity. ... Read More
China Fashion
Major Tantrums: The Close-Ups
China Urban
Close-Up: About The Politics of Dressing and Passing a New Brand Bill
Fashion is an identifier, but in societies that vacillate between collectivist and individualist mentalities, it can both unify and rebel.... Read More
The Temper Fact Checker: 身体力行 aka Practice What U Preach — PATH
Temper checks out PATH. Probing outré aesthetics for men, in radical defiance of all convention regarding materials, construction, and expectations. Preach!... Read More
Close-Up: The POW Of Mao – A Shabby Chic Rebellion to Surrounding Chaos
Breaking the mold some 40 years ago was considered a shabby, and punishable-by-law, thing to do in China. Come 2020, it's chic to dare, bare, and wear.... Read More
The Temper Fact Checker: Beyond Gender and Space Oddities — BOUNDARYLESS
The Temper Fact Checker sends up 99 Luftballons to get the 5W facts on one Chinese label going against all oddities. BOUNDARYLESS: Völlig losgelöst!... Read More
The Temper Fact Checker for Progressive Poshies: Rolling Acid
Raw, riotous, and keepin' it real. Go fact-check Rolling Acid, the turbulent yet ever-fluid creatively commercial and conceptual label. ... Read More
About Panda and Ping-Pong Diplomacy: China Propaganda Is Red Hot
The Jasmine Sour Collection presents an assemblage of China Propaganda wealth and wisdom. Raise the red lantern, it's lit!... Read More
Close-Up: China’s Brazen, Intoxicating, Rebellious Street Cult
All about non-conformist yet congenial rebellion, China's post-95ers are setting the pace for the nation's rejuvenation and unbridled Self-expression.... Read More
Close-Up: China Jewelry, From Social Fee To Shopping Spree
By the 1990s, Chinese consumers began buying into the concept of “The Jewelry Brand”. Enter the Roaring Twenties 2.0 and accessorizing is no longer fashionably optional; it is once again socially required.... Read More
Artists & Visionaries
China Sustainability
Close-Up: About Kathrin Von Rechenberg, Xiang Yun Sha And Mud Dye
Its trade once criticized as a breeding ground for capitalism and its traditional manufacturing methods now nearly lost, xiang yun sha lives!... Read More
INSULAiRE Menswear Encapsulates Chinese Tradition and Transformation
Re-interpret, re-use, and re-design. INSULAiRE draws on China's artisanal heritage, producing garments and stories of cross-cultures and globalized design.... Read More
SOS! The Style Doctor Will See You Now — Hong Kong Fashion Clinic
Save Our Souls! Radical repairs and healing fashion by Hong Kong-based designer duo turned ‘style doctor’s. With a little TC(f)M to tszuj it up. ... Read More
Close-Up: From Hair to Eternity, Tibetan Braids Rule the Waves
Monks are bald because Buddhism says hair is three thousand threads of trouble. But why, then, do Tibetan Buddhists keep 108 braids to ward off the woe? ... Read More
Close-Up: China’s Xiāng — Das Incense in Hand, Sniff Your Way to Zen-Land
Incense, perfume, xiāng. Coco Chanel called it unseen, unforgettable, and ultimate. Mao Zedong called it wanton, wasteful, and Western.... Read More
Close-Up: Shanghai’s Klee Klee Is Consciously Conquering Au Naturel
Klee Klee, the great escape from the dare-we-say-it lack of imagination of eco-fashion's past times, delivers conscious stylings a-wash with sophistication.... Read More
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LABELHOOD Youtopia Trots Out Hot, Hip, ‘n Happening Chinese Graduates
The LABELHOOD Youtopia "RESET" fashion show gave Chinese fashion grads the opportunity to brandish their most forward and forceful formations. ... Read More
