Fashion — Designing Moments 從設計尋根

As featured in Fête Chinoise Design Annual 2023
Curated BY Ashley Galang
EDITED BY DEBORAH LAU-YU

WHEN FASHION MEETS CULTURE
當時裝與文化結合時...

Fête Chinoise invited our publication’s lead fashion stylist Ashley Galang to curate some highlights around the world of designers who are exploring Chinese cultural elements in their work. As an Asian-Canadian herself, Ashley enjoys seeing more diversity in both the industry’s creators and the garments that grace the runways. From high luxury to a passionate new fashion student, she has pulled fascinating styles together for many of our editorial shoots, including feature stories on Simu Liu, Tyler Shaw, Meng’er Zhang, and Linda Chung. From subtle cues to literal combinations of the East and West, the fashion world is tapping into a new era of cultural inspiration and yielding interesting, rich, and unique bodies of work. Fashion represents a changing world, from ideas and creativity to challenges in manufacturing and supply chains, to the online and offline shopping experiences of a myriad of consumers. Here we explore its role in the expression of identity and cultural identity.

Fête Chinoise邀請了團隊的首席時尚造型師Ashley Galang，為我們搜羅世界各地的設計師2023年秋冬系列，作品設計都入中國文化元素。身為亞裔加拿大人的Ashley，很高興看到越來越多時裝界的創作者在服飾設計中加入多元文化色彩。她曾參與多個Fête Chinoise的專題故事拍攝，包括為劉思慕、葉銘恆、張夢兒和鍾嘉欣等設計造型。

從低調隱約到張揚耀目的中西合璧設計，時尚界正利用新時代的多元文化，創作出有趣、豐富、獨特的作品。時裝代表着不斷改變的世界，不論在想法、創意、生產、供應物流、到網上和傳統購物消費體驗都遇上無限的挑戰。我們在探索時裝設計時，或許可以發掘自身份文化定位中所擔當的角色。

SAU LEE

SAU LEE is a luxury fashion house made for today’s cosmopolitan heroine. It began with a desire to form a new genesis of female glamor in Eastern-inspired sartorial sensuality made for the modern generation of polyculturalists; to empower the everyday woman to live her reverie in new ways that she creates, not what was created for her — to be the hero of her own story. Envisioned by women for women, every style is meticulously designed for our heroine to feel effortlessly beautiful, captivating, and deserved. Through wearing the perfect fit, our mission is to bring women up as glamorous Sartorialists who appreciate their body, embrace their sensuality, and express their special powers.

SAU LEE是專為勇敢果斷的現代女性而設的奢侈時裝品牌。品牌的創立旨在重新詮釋東方女性美，為多元文化下成長的新世代而設，讓現代女性享有自主權找尋自己的方向，不用迎合現有規條，成為自己故事中的主角。全女班的設計團隊從女性用家角度仔細考量，讓每一位女士能豪不費力地展現動人、光彩、自信的一面。期望通過穿上完美剪裁的衣服，女性成為能夠欣賞自己身體、擁抱自己的內在美、勇於表達自己獨特天的時尚達人。

gigi wang

Chinese-Canadian designer GiGi Wang's philosophy is to integrate Chinese traditional clothing culture into contemporary fashion trends, and to help sustain and grow traditional Chinese fashion aesthetic in today's hyper changing world. Cubism was Gigi Wang’s inspiration for this season’s collection. Cubism is defined as the beauty of geometric shapes and the aesthetics created by their arrangement and combination. Objects traditionally observed or represented from a single perspective are instead presented from a multitude of viewpoints, conveying the continuity of time and space.

Gigi Wang 的設計理念是將中國傳統服飾文化融入當代時尚潮流，並於急速改變的現代世界中，持續發展及承傳中國傳統時尚美學。Gigi Wang本季系列的靈感來自立體主義。立體主義強調幾何形狀、以及經排列和組合所呈現的美學，將傳統單一、平面的視角擴大至多維度思考，展示時間和空間的連續伸延性。

SARAWONG

SARAWONG unveiled its Fall Winter 2023 Collection paying tribute to Suzhou’s Elegant Gardens and Kunqu Opera, on February 25th, during Milan Fashion Week. The collection titled ‘Dreams in Paradise’ was inspired by the culture of Suzhou, a city known for its poetic elegance and literati past. It balances the delicate elegance of Suzhou’s renowned Garden architecture with the muted beauty of Kunqu opera costumes. It celebrates traditional Chinese culture with colourful fringes, cloud shoulders, and fabric patchwork. The color palette was inspired by Kunqu opera costumes, and it features purple, cherry blossom pink, and soft goose yellow. For the season, Sarawong aims to bring a relaxed and happy mood, and to provide a way for people to heal themselves and find their own peace even in uncertain times.

SARAWONG 於今年2月25日在米蘭時裝周發表了最新2023秋冬系列，向蘇州庭院和昆曲致敬。該系列名為《遊園戲夢》，靈感來自蘇州文化，糅合蘇州園林建築的精緻優雅與昆曲戲服的嫺靜柔美。整個系列以七彩流蘇、雲肩和布料拼貼，展現中國傳統文化，混合深紫、桃紅、鵝黃等色彩，靈感來自昆曲戲服。今季SARAWONG旨在帶來輕鬆愉快的氛圍，期望大家可以在混沌時期找到平靜和療癒的方法。

HUI MILANO

Zhao Huizhou, a Chinese designer with a masters degree from the Politecnico di Milano where she learned about the charm of Italian fashion, does a perfect job of bringing together classical oriental beauty and timeless elegance mixed with the avant-garde of the contemporary. The identity of the brand draws upon the extraordinary Asian attitudes towards trimmings that mix with the precision of clean and minimal design, a style that is born from Zhao’s passion for art and the contamination with fashion that is capable of bringing together multiple languages.

中國設計師趙卉洲，擁有米蘭理工大學時尚管理碩士學位，深明意大利時裝的魅力所在，其設計將東方的經典美學和隽永優雅，與當代設計的前衛破格完美結合。品牌定位強調亞洲對剪裁的一絲不苟，糅合俐落與簡約的設計，風格源於設計師趙卉洲對藝術和時尚的熱愛，作品結合多種語言。

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