Thursday June 20 2013

Content about Fashion design

March 27, 2013
Feted abroad, ignored at home

While designers like Wang Peiyi gain plaudits in the world’s fashion capitals, Gan Tian and Tiffany Tan discover that the domestic market is a harder nut to crack.

While Wang Peiyi’s designs are attracting plenty of attention in Europe, back home in China not many people have even heard of him.

In February Wang presented his creations at Milan Fashion Week, becoming the first mainland designer to hold a runway show at the biannual event. The collection, inspired by the northern lights, was a critical success.

March 25, 2013
Vintage afterlife

Making an old dress new again has become an art for independent designers, but the trend doesn't stop at the small shops, as Gan Tian finds out.

Making an old dress new again has become an art for independent designers, but the trend doesn't stop at the small shops, as Gan Tian finds out.

Old is in, new is out.

Fashionistas are always seeking the "new" garment, accessories of "this season", or "the latest collection" from the designers. However, style-conscious shoppers have recently been embracing fashion that has been recreated from discarded clothes.

January 9, 2013
Chilly feelings toward thermals are thawing

Thermal underwear is a fashion don't in China - or, at least it has been.

Thermal underwear is a fashion don't in China - or, at least it has been.

Fashionistas' frosty feelings toward the winter wear are thawing. And this shift has heated up as the country is frozen by the coldest winter in nearly three decades.

The hippest used to regard people who wear thermals, called qiuku in Chinese, as lame and corny. That's partly because the styles and colors are, well, boring.

January 7, 2013
Time is money

Vintage clothing is becoming fashionable and stores are sprouting like mushrooms.

With its exaggerated cutting, ornate colors and classic designs, vintage clothing has at long last become fashionable in China. People under 30 are primarily responsible for the trend, says Lolo Luo, the owner of Lolo Love Vintage, a store in Shanghai that opened three years ago.

The trend follows in the footsteps of many Western countries where the nostalgic and cutting-edge fashionistas routinely dig out perfectly fine clothes, accessories, jewelry and all kinds of mysterious items from the past.

October 9, 2012
Chinese couture

Fashion houses have been introducing haute couture lines to China, one after another. Italian design duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana tell Gan Tian if Chinese people are ready for such fashion.

Fashion watchers may think that Italian design duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are a step too late in launching their haute couture line Alta Moda in July. After all, a few other design houses have already introduced their haute couture lines a few months ahead of them. 

But the two chief designers from the label insist they are not trying to catch up. Haute couture fashion has always been on top of their minds. 

September 1, 2012
From garbage to garments

Clothes you no longer want, you might give to charity. But what happens to those that even charity groups can't use? Some end up with designers like Zhang Na.

Clothes you no longer want, you might give to charity. But what happens to those that even charity groups can't use? Some end up with designers like Zhang Na. 

Zhang, 32, uses discarded clothing to make a third of the garments for her label, Fake Natoo. More secondhand materials come from friends, even strangers, who've heard of her work upcycling - that is, creating greater value from objects destined for the dump. 

August 3, 2012
Designer de luxe

After striking it big in the West, Singapore-born haute couturier Andrew Gn is now seeking to sweep the emerging high society in China.

Frugality is not a trait associated with Andrew Gn’s mega-rich clients. Even in the depths of the recent recession, demand remained constant for his $80,000 gowns, gorgeously embroidered confections that ensure their wealthy wearers make a dazzling impression at glittering parties and extravagant balls.

The Singapore-born haute couture designer has carved out a niche, making fabulous clothes for film stars and socialites in the US, princesses in the Middle East and, in recent times, nouveau riche women in China.

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