Shanghai Spring 2023

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…

Louis Shengtao Chen—a Central Saint Martins graduate now based in Chongqing, China—found himself listening to the Frank Sinatra classic “Fly Me to the Moon” this season. The song was on repeat so often that Chen ended up basing his whole…

Yueqi Qi’s spring 2023 collection began with no less an inspiration than the universe: astronauts, faraway planets, and individual conceptions of paradise. “We have this old Chinese saying that one person’s heaven is another person’s hell,…