Ming Ma

Ming Ma is filled with a feeling of awakening. After three sad years of lockdown, Shanghai has reopened, and the designer was able to return to the runway. Even over Zoom one could sense his energy, so it’s fitting that he titled his…

Ming Ma’s pretty spring collection was kickstarted by a documentary on the highly influential Ballets Russses, the troupe with which Vaslav Nijinsky danced and from which Paul Poiret developed a dramatic palette that broke with the…

Ming Ma’s mood board, which he shared over Zoom, ping-ponged among varied references—New Romantics! Baroque! Tartans! Poufs!—that aren’t all that evident in his spring collection. For the most part the designer used his tear sheets as a…

Ming Ma often refers to an “elegant tension” in his work. Couture volumes and romantic florals are his signatures, but the results never look as precious as that: They’re cut with asymmetrical hems, splashed with neons, or styled with heavy…