Prove your humanity


There’s no such thing as doing things “nice and easy” in the artistic spheres; it’s either drenched or deserted out there. As we explore the outmost perimeters of China through Fashion and Urban Culture, without further ado, Temper presents its Top Ten 2021 munchies — in random order.

Close-Up: Tighten Those Straps, There’s a New Power Suit in Town

1. Undies: From Practical to Power Tool

Fixing the hooks, lingerie is no longer about just looking like a saucy minx or just being comfy like a couch. For many of China’s modern women, what hides underneath your clothes now boasts a sense of provocation and an embrace of bodily imperfections.

Close-Up: A Prickly Past, A Bright Future, Women in China’s Tattoo Culture is as Thick as Ink

2. Inserting The Ink

Embedded in Chinese history for millennia, China’s tattoo art was not some import from the West. What is rather new, though, is the widespread acceptance of tattoo culture among China’s New Youth and metropole urbanites, with women at the forefront of this particular cultural movement.

Close-Up: Hear Her — Hot on the Heels of China’s Female Urbanite

3. Hear Her!

March 8, International Women’s Day. China’s urban woman in 2021 challenges society’s traditional narrative. Time to tune in on the boundary-breaking tone she thinks (fashion) brands can set to create a groundswell of support for a new notion of empowerment.

The Lesser-Known Trifecta: China’s Under The Radar Fashion Capitals

4. Wuhan, Chengdu, Shenzhen

From textile production to hi-tech behavior… Temper presents the quick facts on three lesser-known hubs further opening up and reforming China’s style scenery. One can Xi everything through fashion.

China’s History of Foot Binding, One Sensitive Style Issue

5. Beauty Is The Beast

China’s history of foot binding, a sensitive style issue that has strongly influenced China’s style-intensive history. Moreover, the practice offers a powerful historic reflection on the cost of attaining beauty standards that cannot be reversed. Temper hacks a path through the thick jungle of fables and truth.

China’s New Youth: From Runway To Shamate and Feeling Emo

6. Feeling A Little Emo?

China’s New Youth is doused in a social media onslaught of what one apparently is supposed to be buying or doing, at times leaving many of them to “feel a little emo” or to sense a disconnect from social convention or disappointment in their very selves. Temper tells — well, “tries to tell” — a palpable tale of chaos and moodiness. From inner-thoughts to outerwear.

Born to Be Wild: Heavy Metal, Fashion and Individualism in China

7. Heavy Metal Fashion Thunder

Even though fashion and heavy metal music seem like cultural phenomena on conflicting, polar ends, they are inseparable with both cultural movements possessing a strong ideology of individualism and unapologetically being yourself. What could be more metal than that?

China X The NFT Files: Memes in The Mirror

8. The NFT Game

Higher Brothers, Crypto Fashion Week, Jacky Tsai… What do these have in common? Three letters: NFT.  When, where and why is this fire burning so bright? And in a setting of critically-acclaimed explosion versus general public confusion, is this burning bush truly heralding a new era for (China) Art?

The Temper Top Ten: The Avant-Guard of China’s Fashion Revolution

9. Revolution in Motion

A sight for sore| bored fast fashion eyes: a Top Ten of those who paved the way for more sustainability in the China Fashion game. From yak yarn yearnings to the turnings of unwanted clothes into the most burning wardrobe desires.

Beyond The Slopes: Olympic Torch Heats Up Winter Sports Style

10. Whumpf Whumpf Winter Apparel

The Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 are fashioning an adrenaline-induced pulsating winter apparel niche in China. Courtesy of an amplified slash advertised awareness of outdoor sports, the nation’s (budding) winter sports devotees are gearing up to hit the slopes. In style.

 

 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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