6 Asian-American designers at New York Fashion Week SS 2024 whose collections were a hit, from Kim Shui’s extravagance to Kozaburo’s sleek silhouettes
- New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2024 was a big one for Asian-American designers. We pick out six to keep an eye on
- Among them are Dauphinette, who presented a collection heavy on upcycled fabric, and Allina Liu, whose hyperfeminine looks are soft and seductive
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From a tentacle spectacle to wearable whimsy, New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2024 (SS24) was a big one for Asian-American designers. These are the top six names to keep an eye out for, and how they are carving their own path in one of the world’s fashion capitals.
1. Bad Binch TongTong
Known for his avant-garde silhouettes, Terrence Zhou of Bad Binch TongTong’s latest offering took show-goers into space with tentacle motifs and nods to extraterrestrial dressing.
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Zhou showed oversized coats and dresses with structured circular hems using organic, free-flowing choreography. The performance, featuring his signature tongue-in-cheek humour, emphasised the importance of evoking emotions when engaging with fashion.
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“For other shows [like musicals or ballets], I always feel so emotionally touched, but for fashion shows, I rarely feel that way. I conceptualised with this contrarian question in mind: are there any fashion shows that make me feel emotionally touched?
“Because at the end of the day, clothes may disintegrate, but feelings are something that we always have,” Zhou says.
2. Allina Liu
Just outside New York’s SoHo neighbourhood, Allina Liu held an intimate presentation of her SS24 collection, which was inspired by the Greek myth of the abduction of Persephone and by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon – one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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