WE Chronicle: adidas by Stella McCartney FW14 campaign

The new nature-themed adidas by Stella McCartney FW14 campaign suggests a fusion between motion and natural landscape.

Wear WE Are: Nguyen Cong Tri

Ho Chi Minh City-based designer Nguyen Cong Tri is the kind of daredevil who is relentless to define Asian fashion. 

WE Feature: Veronique Leroy on fashion design aspirers

At the Young Fashion Designers’ Contest in Hong Kong this year, Michael Cheung met fashion designer and VIP Judge, Veronique Leroy.

WE Chronicle: This is Tarang Bharti

For London-based designer Tarang Bharti, fashion is not a very different process to other art forms. Working around the body in layers, Tarang tries to find the balance through proportions between colliding ideas of structure and movement, strength and fragility.

Wear WE Are: Hira Shah’s Plastic Zeitgeist to Asian Dhoti

Call this an ode to traditional dhoti worn by villagers in Pakistan. It’s a regular piece of unstitched cloth wrapped around the waist, like a long skirt. Just that Hira Shah, London-based Pakistani designer, experimented with an unconventional kind of material – plastic. 

WE Chronicle: The SWANK goes surreal

The multi-brand luxury fashion house THE SWANK is to fill this season with surrealism in a poetic and dreamy way. A new exciting and inspiring fashion shoot has been specially created in Paris, leading you to the lyrical muse as in Jean Cocteau’s works and imaginative world of Alice in Wonderland.

WE Ethical: VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, the climate heroine

Humanity is a great part of all creations. Dame VIVIENNE WESTWOOD never stops to put herself into fashion. She who crafts intellectuality and breathes revolts into couture is a climate heroine. 

WE Address: Reverie A Girl Can Dream – Real vintage place in town

In an industry over-glorified by many, the endless stream of new collections contribute to nothing more than fads. Rather than fawning over hot looks that retire too fast to remember, real tastemakers are those who see fashion as a mellow brew of aesthetics. Interactions with aged pieces are poetic encounters with real art. And this is what makes Reverie – A Girl Can Dream, a new and very sophisticated vintage boutique in Hong Kong, a pilgrimage destination for fashion lovers.

WE Chronicle: Shanghai Tang SS14 Collection

Shanghai Tang never fails to refresh one’s mind with its tasteful interpretation of Chinese chic. And the Spring/Summer 2014 Collection was recently revealed. Inspired by the natural world, the brand new collection is with a fresh new colour series of three-dimensional design. What we see and love is volume design with bright, vivid hues that are happily wearable. 

Wear WE Are: Remember Isabella Blow

 

This is a time of fashion blogalism, yet it is also a perfect time to remember the golden role model of all fashion journalists across the world. In whose blood fashion lived. With whom eccentric aesthetics conquered all creative fields. One who never didn’t see glamour, vanity and materialism in fashion; she simply embraced herself with fun, extremity and passion. Isabella Blow, the late British patron of fashion and art.