Xander Zhou Shanghai Fall 2024

Alex Zhou framed This autumn 2024 collection as "advanced technology sewing," And title he “Sciremony” A hybrid of "science" And "ceremony." "I call he sewing because I to want people has know I take This collection seriously," said THE Based in Beijing designate After her to show, "but I Also to want has to show A different approach For men's clothes, using scientist research as THE method. »

Zhou has positioned her track collections as laboratory experiences that push her ready to wear double Before while satisfying her creative urges. Last season, he staging A intergalactic exposure concentrate on super smart humanoids. This time around he hosted A masquerade ball And shaped her place In THE style of A natural history museum. that of Zhou taste For science fiction was always here, but NOW dissolved In A exam of THE future In THE context of THE pass: "ritualistic futurism" East how he put that.

A fashion to show In himself East Nothing but A ritual, except that instead that celebrate life Or spirituality, It is rites And processions exalt THE idea of change. Novelty East THE mantra here, And Nothing fascinates Zhou more that evolution And THE constantly evolving, mystifying perspective that East THE future, which here took A anachronistic shape. This season, instead that to propose bionic arm And second skin outerwear, Zhou concentrate on that most timeless And classic bastions of men's clothes: THE suit. that of Zhou Men were not cyborgs but gentlemen And dandies WHO used walk The sticks, wore scanning capes, And gently swaddled cat figurines And bonsai with their arm. For A designate SO infatuated by science And technology, This collection seemed more concerned with THE human; A little melancholy has times, And others moody And in a seductive way nasty.

There were thin costumes ornate with irritable plates, which THE designate used Sometimes as armor And others as flattened corsets Or saddlebags. Zhou has do This mechanical design language A signature, And he would be be interesting has see him push he even further away. What would be these mechanisms look as embellished Or woven In her lush fabrics instead that applied ? Zhou has worlds has explore as he companies In THE concept of "advanced technology sewing." A few models put on half-bionic hairy stoles And others wore looking like a robot, boot-chap hybrids, both symbols of that of Zhou past-before future. Zhou knows how has create A catch phrase jewel, Again her most impactful work This season was find In THE nuances of her adaptation reimaginings. He extended THE necklaces In her shirts, Sometimes has fence THE faces of her models And others as projecting sculptural accessories, And skillfully carved THE those In her jackets with accurate spectacular shine.

There was A air of Gothic romance has THE entire in progress, increase by that of Zhou play with THE idea of space And time. "THE future East A enigma And My drawings are conjectures, dramatized projections of hypothetical scenarios”, he wrote In her collection Remarks. But THE future is Nothing other that hypothetical until he becomes THE here. What shapes OUR future, After all, East THE curiosity of those as Zhou WHO Also take A hand In shape that.