Future of Fashion at the Asia Fashion Collection 2017 / NYFW
Each year the Asia Fashion Collection gives a group of up and coming young Asian designers the opportunity to show their collection at New York Fashion Week. Chosen via a region wide competition hosted by the Vantan Design Institute and PARCO, these designers represent the future of Asian fashion. This year saw a diverse group on the runway with representatives from Japan, Corea, Taiwan, and for the first time an alumni of Parsons School of Design in New York.
Each designer brings a unique socio-cultural perspective to the runway, with influences running from commercial aspiration to the everyday. New York City provided the inspiration for Mei Takeuchi’s street fashion collection for her brand Behind. Assembled from a series of original textiles in black and yellow with white accents, Takeuchi incorporated symbols from around the city to create a strong upscale urban collection that brings lux to the street. Dairiku Okamoto also drew on American themes for a men’s wear collection with a retro feel. Inspired by a teenage boy going to city, the collection was emblazoned with iconic signs referencing the classic American road trip. Cecilia Chang for Ceci, Jaesung Chung for J Chung, and Kevin Ho for Kevin Ho, all showed more mainstream collections aimed at the contemporary urban woman. R.Y/S.H designers Ryunosuke Yamada and Stella Huang bought a militaristic vibe to their women’s wear collection, giving us a series of coats with strong silhouettes, some of the morning’s strongest pieces. The show closed with a collection of bespoke one of a kind suits for men and women by Gahee Lim. Each was crafted with brightly layered tulle visibly hand stitched in colored thread. Though decorative, each thread was essential to the garments construction, and each piece a testament to Lim’s vision as an innovator.
Asia Fashion Collection was attended by Japanese fashion bloggers Tomoco Nozaki and Alisa Ueno. Ueno is also the Creative Director for the Japan based ladies brand Fig and Viper.
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Thomas Wener is our Editor at Large since August 16th 2016. He is the author of the book "The Fashion Image" for Bloomsbury Press, London (2017), and an Assistant Professor and past Photography Program Director at Parsons School of Design in New York. The former owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea Art District, he currently lectures internationally on topics of photography, fashion, education, and contemporary professional practices, and recently lead a team developing a media and literacy web site and resource center in five languages, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic and English for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations/UNESCO. Thomas has worked with the Department of State as a cultural representative in Russia, and been a photography consultant for COACH and Rodale Publishing, among others. He is a recurrent instructor at the United Nations Education First Summer School, and is presenting workshops on effective message development and communication on an international basis.
Over the last nine years his personal work has been Russia and Ukraine centric, spending an average or 70 days a year there partnering with 33 cultural, educational, and governmental organizations to develop projects in 34 cities. The focus of this work has been the introduction of the principles of civil society, the advancement of media literacy and contemporary education methodologies, and the development of creative cultures within the country. He has curated exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and his personal art work and private collection of Russian photographs and artifacts have been exhibited internationally.
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