WWD spotlights Susan Fang, Sinéad O’Dwyer, Harri, and Abigail Ajobi ahead of the four-day fashion showcase.
and smartphone maker Oppo. She has also appeared in Piaget’s global campaign alongside Wendy Yu, and put on dreamy fashion shows during Shanghai Fashion Week that had influencer Susie Bubbe praising her from the other side of Eurasia.
Models will be walking on pontoons, surrounded by giant inflated flower-bomb installations covered with water marble patterns Fang and her mother developed together in Shanghai, where she was stuck for more than two-and-a-half years. Thanks to her Canadian passport, she managed to come back this summer after the two-month-long Shanghai lockdown to prepare for the show.
This new source of revenue safeguarded her business and provided her with firsthand insight into her community. She’s dedicating her physical show to her mother, who is a cellist. “I am hugely inspired by classical musicians this season,” said O’Dwyer, adding that she even “drew inspiration from an image of myself as a young teenager. I played the cello too and have been reflecting on that time period by looking closely at the silhouette I was wearing in the photographs in juxtaposition with orchestral garments.
She found a mill in Italy to source all of her organic cotton, cotton-silk blend and linen fabrics. The brand uses natural fibers for all their tailoring and shirting; Econyl for swimwear. For the first time she’s introducing knit garments made from mohair, elastic and cotton, also sourced from Italy.
He was forced to leave the U.K. and return to India upon graduation. He worked in retail for a year to sustain himself during the pandemic, while applying for the exceptional talent visa for fashion, now rebranded as part of the U.K global talent visa. Last September, he finally moved back to London and began to work on a new collection from his one-bed apartment in Woolwich, London.
Harri revealed that the initial idea for his collection was how he imagined his pug Kai, named after his favorite bodybuilder Kai Greene, seeing the world around him. And then he expanded that thought to how will people perceive each other. “I want to offer a more accessible reinterpretation, not just from a financial point of view. I don’t think a lot of people would be brave enough, including myself, to wear my trousers. But they still appreciate the craft and imagery,” he said.London-based designer Abigail Ajobi started her luxury streetwear label in the height of lockdown after graduating from London College of Fashion and having previously studied at Central Saint Martins.
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