Q To The R, From Tùzi (兔子) To Tù (吐): Eating Disorders In Online China
Q as in Cute. The word is ubiquitous. It’s harmless; until it is not. Eating disorders in the 21st Century are rampant, both off- and online.... Read More
China Fashion
Major Tantrums: The Close-Ups
China Urban
Et Dieu… Créa La Femme Chinoise. From Leftover To New Power Woman
China, home to some of the world’s most successful, entrepreneurial thirty-something women. But can they have their jiǎozi and eat them too?... Read More
Cigarettes to Bralettes: China’s Sexual Revolution Through Advertising
Sex sells. From 1930s calendar girls to actress Zhou Dongyu in 2020, Temper explores China's sexual revolutions. Through advertising.... Read More
Next Level Urban Culture: Chinese Heritage Sizzles At Hot Pot Lab NYC
Hot Pot Lab NYC, the interactive food-themed pop-up art gallery providing a non-traditional way to dip into this traditional China Cuisine. ... Read More
In China’s Ueber-Consumer Society: Is There “Real” Art After Revolution?
From hardcore politically motivated performance art to individually inclined artsy aesthetics… Do China’s artistic rebels still have a cause? ... Read More
The Temper Fact Checker: Artist Provocateur Xiaowu Zheng Presents His 头七
Zheng's First Seven collection discusses the unrelenting reign of censorship in China and how the nation's New Youth can create a better social environment.... Read More
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
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 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
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China Sustainability
Close-Up: The Future Of Fashion Is Looking Brilliant And Bright
Fashion in its very Self is the Mistress of (Optical) Illusion -- just consider the visual effect of a vertical stripe. Nevertheless, the future of this illusion is very much a reality -- a paradoxical yet facetious liaison. ... Read More
Take Five With The Sustainable Revolutionary: Fashionably Wasted No More
Getting fashionably wasted is a go-go no more. Not even in China. Sustainability requires revisions across the supply chain, from raw materials to waste management. How to do a successful stint in rehab?... Read More
The Details Are In The Dress Code — China’s Minority Muses and Musings
The details in the different ethnic dress make China's minorities truly minors playing in the majors -- the major ‘tude stakes, that is.... Read More
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
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Penultimate Pokes the Boundary of Mass-Manufacturing Fantasy: Check!
Contouring cross-cultural explorations, designer Xiang Gao of Penultimate creates a spectacular, spectacular, no words in the vernacular tongue-in-cheek melting pot. ... Read More
