As Shanghai Fashion Week 2018 prepares to take its curtain call on April 3, Temper Magazine daintily dips a petite paw into the grab bag of fashionably visual marvels the Fifth Fashion Capital had to offer during its substantially celebrated Ontimeshow, taking place inside the West Bund Artistic Center, March 29-April 1. Now witness the embodiment and resurrection of fashion’s innovative, daredevil, come what may spirit!
Designer Tiwill Tang (CHRONIC) presents his “Contemporaneous” collection during Shanghai’s Ontimeshow, March 31. Photo credits: Tiwill Tang
First Quickie Things First
We give you a CGTN glimpse of how Chinese designers are merging high-tech materials with fashion at the 2018 Shanghai Fashion Week (March 28- April 3), creating unique styles which in turn create much public buzz. CGTN’s Yang Chengxi is talking to Rico Lee, a young designer and founder of the eponymous fashion brand, about his inspiration and “function makes life beautiful” vision, from merely existing in the realm of his own mind to actually combining them with his factual work. Watch this interview snippet — courtesy of the CGTN YouTube Channel:
Stand And Deliver
Starting from this #8 edition, the Ontimeshow now invites A-1 individuals or teams in the field of architecture to plan and integrate a space for specially selected YOUNG TALENTS designers, integrating new retail concepts with unique art, music, home and lifestyle features. The perspective and ingenious design language allows for promising designers not only to be inspired and grow, but also encourages professional buyers to discover new design faces, new retail models and new possibilities overall. From the latest in VR fashion tech to good old confusing artwork…
YOUNG TALENTS. You ask. We deliver:
And as we at Temper admittedly always do enjoy dabbling in the darker side of things, do behold as we sum things up… It’s Chronically “Contemporaneous” at large:
Images: Courtesy of Ontimeshow
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Perpetually in pursuit of the greater good that is “China Fashion”, van Paridon set up The China Temper to help promote the dynamite dynamic fashion scene sprouting within Beijing, Shanghai, and China overall. Catering to anybody and everybody who reads English and/or Chinese, Temper covers all the basics and bases. From China's street style scenery to its budding photographers, internationally renowned designers, and underground quirks plus phenomena: We present one hot-hip-happening current collective weaving The New "Made in China" tag.
The term “Made in China” is undergoing the ultimate 21st Century makeover. Escorted by the increasingly strong influence of a new thinking among China’s younger generations, regarding individuality and the expression thereof, the fashion scene in the Middle Kingdom is exploding. And stretches far beyond what meets the eye. It’s appliqué, one might say.
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