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 is the author of the books The Business of Fine Art Photography, Routledge, New York, and The Fashion Image for Bloomsbury Publishing, London. As a creative consultant, Thomas works one on one with students, creatives, businesses, cultural institutions, and not for profits helping them refine their communications, and achieve their goals in fashion and the fine arts. He is also an Editor at Large for IRK Magazine, a member of the Santa Fe Council for the CENTER for Photographic Art, an instructor at the New York Film Academy and Santa Fe Workshops, founder of Thomas Werner Projects Podcast, and past Photography Program Director at Parsons School of Design in New York. He is the former owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea Art District, and a former National Board member and New York Chapter President for the American Society of Media Photographers. As well as a former Advisory Board Member for Ithaca College’s Executive Education Program and contributor to Adobe’s Lightroom Academy. As an exhibiting artist Thomas was represented by galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and his work reviewed in The New Yorker Magazine.
Werner also led 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. He has worked with the United States Department of State on cultural projects in Russia, and been a photography consultant for COACH and Rodale Publishing, among others. Thomas was a recurrent instructor at the United Nations Education First Summer School, and is now presenting workshops on effective message development, team management, innovation, education, visual communication, contemporary professional practices, on an international basis. With a series of presentations and workshops in 6 cities across China.
From 2005 – 2020 his research was Russia centric spending an average of 30 days a year there partnering with 32 cultural, educational, and governmental organizations to develop projects in 29 cities. The focus has been the introduction of contemporary education methodologies, and the development of creative cultures within the country. Russian partners have included; The State Hermitage Museum, the National Center of Contemporary Art, Perm Regional Government, The Moscow Biennale for Young Art, National Centre of Photography for the Russian Federation, The Central State Archive of Film, Photographic and Phonographic Documents, The Moscow Biennale, The Pro Arte Foundation, and others. He has curated exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including seven co-curated exhibitions at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His private collection of Russian photographs and artifacts have been exhibited internationally. Thomaswernerprojects.com @Thomaswernerprojects IG
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