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Sophia Wang

Auto Men's Style August 31, 2019

Ermenegildo Zegna x Maserati: When Iconic Fabrics Make Automotive History

On August 7th, the Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer Maserati unveiled their latest collection of 100 limited production Quattroporte S Q4 GranLusso sedans and Levante S GranSport SUVs with an exclusive PELLETESSUTA™ interior by Ermenegildo Zegna, an Italian luxury menswear house, at Monterey Car Week. Having partnered previously with Zegna’s innovative design of silk interiors, two Italian-based companies are entering a new phase of exploring modern manifesto of a luxury experience together. For the 100 limited edition Maseratis presented during Monterey…

Fashion August 14, 2019

Digital Clothing: Fashion of Future

The wave of digitization hits the fashion industry this time. As the world’s first piece of digital couture created by The Fabricant was sold for $9,500 in May, the rise in digital fashion has received a lot of attention. This new trend, however, does not come unexpected. Two luxury icons, Prada and Balmain, launched their digital fashion campaigns last year, both of which feature digital models who wear tailored styles. By breaking the wall between physicality and virtuality, digital fashion…

Fashion Jewelry July 4, 2019

Bulgari’s “SerpentiForm” Exhibition Dazzles Chengdu Museum This Summer

Having held the “SerpentiForm” exhibition in Rome in 2016 and Singapore and Tokyo in 2017, Bulgari presents their Chinese patrons with a feast of precious Bulgari Serpenti pieces at Chengdu Museum in China this year. The show runs until August 25th. Jean-Christophe Babin, Chairman and CEO of Bulgari, attended the opening ceremony and gave an introduction of exhibition contents with Brand ambassadors Kris Wu and Jolin Tsai joining the conversation. The Serpenti design has always been a distinctive element of…

Fashion June 9, 2019

Dover Street Market New York: Get Ready for an Unconventional Adventure

Standing at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 30th Street, Dover Street Market New York (DSMNY), a high-end retail branch of Rei Kawakubo’s international fashion empire, counters basically everything I expect from a fashion boutique. Words like timeless and classical would do a just description of the building based on its temple-like facade. However, a wild fashion experiment, or “beautiful chaos” in Karakubo’s words, is actually going on underneath the surface. Together with five other stores around the globe…

Fashion People May 6, 2019

Yun Qu: Fashion Designer, Musician, and Futurist

Yun Qu, the Founder of the NYC based brand Videmus Omnia, which was founded in 2016, let me know that she was listening to Nirvana when she got the inspiration for her A/W 2019 collection, “Enigma”. The collection, which features grunge fashion and Renaissance art debuted at the A/W 2019 New York Fashion Week. “Enigma” marks Yun’s third collection. When I entered Yun Qu’s studio in New York on a Sunday afternoon, the first thing that grabbed my attention was…

Fashion People Travel Women's Style April 24, 2019

Leaf Greener: “Fashion Industry Needs to Slow Down”

Liberty, Enthusiasm, Aesthetics, Fantasy. Unlike traditional print magazines, the LEAF WeChat magazine doesn’t follow rules in terms of format and frequency. Nor does the magazine discuss fashion trends and gossip. “It’s about design theories, [and] about ethics,” Leaf Greener said in our interview. “We believe in slow fashion and publish articles whenever we find right angles and themes.” Leaf Greener, the former Senior Fashion Editor of Elle China and Founder of LEAF WeChat Magazine, is a Chinese fashion influencer and…

Fashion Women's Style April 12, 2019

A Peter Marino Designed Chanel Flagship Boutique Opens in Seoul

Located in Apgujeong-dong, which is well regarded as one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in South Korea, Chanel’s newly-opened Seoul flagship store stands out as an identifiable abstraction of the international brand’s icon in a prime, urban surrounding. The opening of which marks the 10th boutique across the country. Architect, Peter Marino, who has been regularly commissioned by Chanel to design boutiques in New York, Paris, Tokyo and London, solved another challenge of how to represent modern luxury in a structural…

Fashion Women's Style April 5, 2019

The Best Street Style Photos From Shanghai Fashion Week A/W 2019/2020

Located in Xintiandi where the voice of youth thrives, Shanghai Fashion Week A/W 2019/2020 kicked off on March 27th and showcased a vigorous blend of designs from new Chinese talents like Susan Fang and Wanbing Huang. This season, show-goers expressed their distinctive use of culture and art by remixing eastern elements with modern chic. It’s refreshing to see how elegant women’s styles were represented in different looks such as a flowery blazer paired with a lace-trimmed cord skirt. The sweater…

Art & Culture March 13, 2019

When Art is Not About Art, But About You

Fred Sandback, American, 1943-2003. Untitled (One of Four Diagonals), 1970. Black Elastic Cord Installed Across a Room from an Upper Corner to the Lower Corner of the Diagonally Opposite Corner. Standing at the entrance to the Spaces: Works from the Collection 1966-1976, I hesitated, unsure whether to go in. There was almost nothing inside. From where I was standing, all I could see was just a black elastic cord installed across a room. I was trying to examine the elastic…