By recent London College of Fashion grad Xiao Li. Looking at these, it's almost automatic to revert to common grumbles that fashion is never created for the human body.
But then, look at them on the human body!
This is one of those moments I'm proud to be Chinese, even though China is far from being my motherland.
China Vogue manages to take fashion from the big houses and turn it into art on its pages. (Of course, I say that under heavy influence of the Art Edition of Vogue I bought in Beijing, that had a precious middle chunk dedicated to the art village and interviews with contemporary Beijing artists.)
But the sentiment here is the same--
These pieces were created for a Project Runway-type competition in China, in which Xiao Li made it to the final five. This would never be seen on the US Project Runway finals, which churns out safer and safer designers by the season.
And US Vogue. Gone are the days of art photographs as covers, for here is the era of celebrities-as-models.
China Vogue manages to retain that austere aesthetic distinctive to Chinese art. The only times it fails are when it tries to do punk, a look that never originated on austere Chinese women and should be left to the British.
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