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A fashion designer, Zhang Huishan is a devoted Yohji Yamamoto fan. He was lucky enough to get his hands on this coat during a sample sale. This coat was also on the runway in black, naturally.
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Monochromatic Designer
The Shoemaker
This young design student teamed up with Triple-Major to create some very elaborate buxie that take off on tradition.
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Candy Strand Skirt
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A Stylites post was recently featured on a tumblr called Wearing the pants that collects pictures of women wearing menswear-inspired outfits. For women, such styles have long been fashionable, whereas the man-skirt still turns heads and seems a bit provocative. Also at the David Ubl event, fashion designer Xiao Qiao’s colourful number was created by a friend of his.
At David Ubl
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This past Saturday, German designer David Ubl presented his summer collection at Beijing rooftop terrace bar The Beach. Unfortunately due to rainy weather, the show was transferred inside. This did not stop the city’s fashion folk from dressing up as their usual chic selves. Here is Chictopia Designer Qing Yang who already appeared on Stylites during this summer’s festival season.
A Darling Designer
Photographed two years ago on Stylites, Cecaa’s brand, Mon Cheri, has recently grown into something more major. He was at the Initial Fashion opening party. The first shop of this Hong Kong brand in Beijing is on tourist-overrun Nanluoguxiang, a somewhat unexpected location for such a hip shop.
Multi-Tasking Creator
Ding Xiaoyun is a graphic designer/illustrator/art director/artist who recently returned from studying in the UK.
Pale Green Loli
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Roxanne is also at Central St Martins. I particularly like her skirt made from Miao minority embroidery and batik cloth. She found it at Beijing Muxiyuan fabric market.
A Beijing Holiday
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Momo studies fashion and textile design at Central St Martins and is back in Beijing for the summer. Some of her collections are here.
Designer Dots
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Beautiful Fashion Designer Yang Shaojun was showing some of her designs during the Fly Tea fashion show at Seasons Place this Thursday.
Good Design
Wang Yue is a freelance interiors designer.
5:15 pm, Financial Street
Hats with ear covers have been quite fashionable recently, and not just when it’s cold. By the way, both this fashion design student’s wristwatches were set to the same, accurate, time.
Another Mountain Man
Up for the opening of the Kenya Hara show at the Beijing Center for the Arts was Stanley Wong, one of Hong Kong’s leading creatives. A long-time advertising genius, multidisciplinary designer, and TV-commerical producer, Wong is also a visual artist specializing in photography. He is known in the scene as anothermountainman. Wong is a close friend of Muji Creative Director Kenya Hara, whose show, open till early July, is a must-see.
Oddly Uighur
Having studied fashion design in Paris, Xiao Qiao has returned to Beijing for work.
More from Chi Zhang
Here is the final set of photos from the Chi Zhang fashion show.