Feng Chen Wang SS17 Runway

#FengChenWang is a child of fate. Feng explores the idea of meeting, of connection and of connectivity. She uses clothing as a metaphor for the strange ways people’s paths cross in the digital age: through a poke, swipe or double-tap. Feng illustrates this idea with looped cables that run through the openings of garments, manipulating their structure, or otherwise connecting them to one-another in tangled knots. Fabric – which is slit, split and slashed – conceals and reveals the models’ forms, leaving them in a state of simultaneous dress and undress. Colours begin technological – a clinical white, a cold grey and crisp navy – but gradually warm, and finally climax in a fiery orange-red. A glowing shade of amber body paint is also applied to parts of the models’ anatomy that relate to meeting: the ear that listens, the mouth that speaks, the hand that extends, that touches. At the same, the words “YOU” and “WE” are emblazoned across the chest and down the arms in 3D fabric letters throughout the collection, expressing something of aloneness and togetherness. Explore the collection at: fengchenwang.com Follow us for latest news and collection on Instagram: @fengchenwang