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Artist Jaffa Lam and architect Dong-Ping Wong respond to the changing urban landscape of Hong Kong, uniting two distinct creative visions in an installation shaped by a shared spatial practice.
Designers Victoria Tang-Owen and Yimeng Yu revive the ancient Chinese crafts of filigree inlay and dian-cui to connect their seemingly faraway worlds—the physical and the digital.
Ready-to-wear designer Bianca Saunders and couture designer Rahul Mishra exchange their international perspectives and techniques to reach new customers with genre-defying garments.
Culinary artist Janice Wong and innovative chef Rosio Sanchez blend Mexican and Singaporean cooking to address food security challenges in a cross-cultural dining experience.
Orchestrator Macy Schmidt and multidisciplinary artist Maitha Hamdan fuse contemporary orchestral arrangements with Middle Eastern art in an immersive, interactive performance.
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Artist Jaffa Lam and architect Dong-Ping Wong respond to the changing urban landscape of Hong Kong, uniting two distinct creative visions in an installation shaped by a shared spatial practice
How can orchestral music connect with a new generation and inspire global collaboration? Orchestrator Macy Schmidt and artist Maitha Hamdan cross disciplines to reimagine Dana Al Fardan’s piece “Crystalline” with Middle Eastern-inspired digital visuals and a contemporary arrangement through the pop stylings of The Sinfonietta.
Macy Schmidt
Orchestrator United States of America
Broadway’s first woman of colour orchestrator, first-gen Egyptian-American Macy Schmidt knows her legacy, and has her own all-women orchestra to follow her barrier-breaking lead.
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The Egyptian-American maestra has a direct hand in bringing more women and talent of colour to the orchestra pit through The Broadway Sinfonietta, the all-women and majority women of colour orchestra she founded in 2020. Conducting the internationally renowned 25-piece ensemble and a pipeline of women artists, Schmidt is on a double mission to subvert expectations of orchestral music through reinterpreted arrangements of pop songs and spotlight the musical excellence of women.
Orchestrator & Founder of The Broadway Sinfonietta United States of America
Forbes 30 Under 30 Orchestrator and Executive Producer Macy Schmidt is the first woman of colour orchestrator in Broadway history.
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Through textiles, film, performance and digital installations, artist Maitha Hamdan explores themes of social boundaries, womanhood and faith, embarking on a journey of self-discovery to challenge perceptions of Emirati women.
Multidisciplinary Artist United Arab Emirates
Maitha Hamdan
The performance artist uses multiple mediums to understand life, love, history and faith—and examine her own encounters within the human experience. A visual interpreter, Hamdan’s artistic vision has the power to reimagine music into real-time video. Reflecting the evolving roles of modern Emirati women, Hamdan’s voice powerfully brings personal challenges to light, breaking with tradition to inspire bold self-expression.
Through textiles and filmmaking, self-taught artist Maitha Hamdan is unlearning as much as she is exploring in her multidisciplinary practice, challenging perceptions along the way.
Go behind the scenes of The Sound Exchange as Macy and Maitha blend their cultures into a powerful orchestral piece designed to captivate new audiences.
Building bridges through sound and art
As an Emirati digital performance artist, Maitha’s experimentation with textiles, paintings, sculptures and drawings mixes traditional Emirati elements with global styles.
Influences from Emirati culture—and the world
The musicians of The Sinfonietta are silhouetted against a backdrop of lights and shadows; Maitha Hamdan’s sensory design.
A show for the senses
Designing performance art
Maitha and Macy drew inspiration from their respective worlds—geometry and vibrant colours from Abu Dhabi, sounds from New York—to connect with audiences and reflect both artists’ identities and cultural influences.
Maitha and Macy’s creative process
For the show, Maitha drew from the cultural inspirations of her Emirati heritage to highlight elements like arabesque windows found in Emirati homes and Islamic architecture.
Islamic architectural references
Maitha paired traditional Middle Eastern references with The Sinfonietta’s contemporary musical interpretation of Arabic strings, resulting in a historically rich, interactive show for a modern audience.
Combining Eastern inspiration and technology
The collaborators came together in the studio for the first time after Macy chose and crafted her arrangement of “Crystalline” in New York and Maitha designed the digital art in Abu Dhabi.
An artistic exchange
Maitha chose geometric patterns and kaleidoscopic motifs to align with Macy’s score visually expressing their shared Middle Eastern connection.
Kaleidoscopes of light and sound
At each flourish of Macy Schmidt’s baton, Maitha Hamdan’s digital art responded on screen, creating a visual symphony and conversation between the art and the conductor in real time.
Conducting immersive art
Maitha’s digital art was exhibited on an LED stage for the interactive performance by The Sinfonietta featuring percussion by Mickey Bertelsen and drum kit by Elena Bonomo.
Setting the stage
Center stage with The Sinfonietta
Drawing inspiration from her Emirati collaborator and her own Egyptian ancestry, Macy chose a piece by Dana Al Fardan to challenge Western stereotypes and highlight the achievements of Middle Eastern women.
Celebrating Middle Eastern artists
Musicians of The Sinfonietta take the stage before performing. From left to right, Carolina Diaz Chan (soloist), Kiley Rowe, Nicole Wright on viola and Giana DiNatale on the double bass.
Reimagining pop music
Macy founded The Sinfonietta during the pandemic to raise the bar for representation of more women of colour in the theatre industry, with an emphasis on greater support for the individual artist, from compensation to childcare.
A mission to support women artists
Performed by Elizabeth Steiner, the harp carries the melody on The Sinfonietta’s adaptation of “Crystalline.” Often underutilised, the harp has become a symbol of the all-women orchestra’s work.
Harp as hero
Watch the full performance by Maitha Hamdan, Macy Schmidt and The Sinfonietta.
A cross-cultural exchange between New York and the UAE
Macy in New York and Maitha in the UAE overcame the challenge of distance through creativity, collaborating to reimagine orchestral music. By blending digital art and Arabic-inspired musical elements with a contemporary, cross-disciplinary approach, they discovered an immediate synergy. When their work came together in New York for the interactive performance, their Middle Eastern connection deepened. During the performance, Macy reflected on their collaboration: “Her art was adapting to our music. And on some level, our music was adapting to her art.”
Behind the Scenes
Maitha Hamdan meets Macy Schmidt at her former home base, the Cultural Foundation Center in Abu Dhabi, where she was previously a resident artist.
Macy’s experience while traveling for orchestrating opportunities from Broadway to Bollywood built the global network of artists and musicians who make up The Sinfonietta.
Orchestrator and arranger Macy Schmidt conducts The Sinfonietta against digital artist Maitha Hamdan’s interactive kaleidoscopic motif onstage.
The Sinfonietta’s violin, viola and harp sections rehearse. Violins: Francesca Dardani, Molly Fletcher, Lady Jess, Mario Gotoh, Tiffany Weiss, Insia Malik. Violas: Carolina Diaz Chan (soloist), Kiley Rowe, Nicole Wright. Harp: Elizabeth Steiner.
As orchestrator of The Sinfonietta, Macy takes existing compositions and arranges each part to enhance the emotion of the piece.
Originally composed with the piano carrying the melody, “Crystalline” was adapted for the harp to lead in The Sinfonietta’s arrangement for The Sound Exchange.
Macy’s vision for The Sinfonietta is a model to the industry; to approach the members of an orchestra as singular artists within a unit, to celebrate the brilliance and artistry of each individual talent and, above all, to create jobs for women in entertainment.
The rehearsal hall before The Sinfonietta’s live interactive performance in New York.
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Fusing local ingredients with both their ancestral cuisines, Janice and Rosio unlock new flavour profiles, textures, and shared techniques to create inventive dishes that maximize available produce and inspire palates.
Rosio serves her Mole Manchamanteles featuring bold fusion flavours and local chiles. In Singapore, the Mexican-American chef found similarities to the street food and spices of Mexican cuisine and culture.
In Singapore—where food security is a challenge—the chefs innovated to locally source chocolate, a non-native crop. Janice, who embarked on a mission in 2021 to plant a thousand cacao trees across the country, used Singaporean-grown cocoa for her chocolate-water recipe, while Rosio used upcycled chocolate in her mole sauce.
As Janice’s local Singaporean friends enjoy their meal, they also learn from the chefs about sourcing local ingredients, thinking differently about where produce can come from and the power of blending cultures.
Served on a rooftop as a nod to the city’s urban farming, the Mexican-Singaporean fusion menu included a mole dish with local spices and chilies, a chocolate H2O dessert featuring Singaporean chocolate, and a colourful, floral-adorned sorbet inspired by the cultures of both countries.
The chefs surprise guests during the filming of the urban farm-to-table experience, revealing that the menu’s seamless pairing of global flavours feature ingredients that can be sourced from Singapore, expanding the culinary experiences possible in the city within a garden.
Janice and Rosio draw inspiration from the flavours of Singapore’s hawker stalls - and the culture of Mexican street food - before fusing fresh, local ingredients to craft three recipes that honor heritage and innovation.
Chefs Janice Wong and Rosio Sanchez source ingredients from an urban farm for the intimate dinner menu they designed to tell the stories of their combined culinary heritages and the ingredients Singapore has to offer.
How did chefs from Singaporean and Mexican-American backgrounds create a fusion of flavors from across continents? With only 1 percent of land to grow agriculture in Singapore, Janice and Rosio relied on local ingredients sourced from the urban farm Edible Garden City and added traditional Mexican elements inspired by Rosio’s heritage to craft three unique dishes blending both cuisines. While being mindful of food security challenges with innovative dishes, Janice and Rosio also elevated their restaurants’ reputations by satisfying diners’ insatiable appetites for unexpected dining experiences.
A cross-cultural exchange in Singapore
Rosio Sanchez
Janice Wong
She follows an organic and local approach across her restaurant group to bring Mexican food, drinks and culture to Copenhagen. Tortillas made onsite using imported indigenous Mexican corn, tacos and fresh-fruit paletas are signatures. Situated in Copenhagen’s Vesterbro district, one of her contemporary concept spaces offers a five-course tasting menu that enhances Mexican ingredients cooked with ancestral practices.
Mexican-American chef Rosio Sanchez is renowned worldwide for incorporating her family heritage and experience in dining excellence to create Mexican-inspired dishes.
Innovative Chef Denmark
After working under world-respected chefs, Wong refined her skills and went on to open dessert bars in Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo; a pastry shop in Macau; and several retail confectionaries. She’s known for her signature edible art installations and playful wares like colourful, hand-painted bonbons, chocolate crayons and chocolate paint.
Janice Wong is a native of Singapore who discovered a niche in desserts, chocolate and pastry-making that would expand into imaginative dessert ventures on multiple continents.
Culinary Artist Singapore
Two chefs take on Singapore’s land scarcity issue, sourcing ingredients from local urban farms
The Culinary Exchange
Could combining cultures offer solutions to urban food security? Culinary artist Janice Wong and innovative chef Rosio Sanchez overcome the obstacles of urban agriculture in Singapore, using native produce to create international flavours.
Discover the enticing sensory world of The Culinary Exchange, where two chefs blend Mexican and Singaporean flavours to spark curiosity and create new opportunities.
Fusing cultures through culinary artistry
Fruit Aguachile
Mole Manchamanteles
Chocolate H20
Grapeseed oil
Red dragon fruit
Soursop
Mandarin
Starfruit
Asian pear
Whole cinnamon
Cloves
White sugar
Lime juice
Rambutan
Star anise
Muscovado sugar
Pineapple
Mix of garden flowers and herbs
Brown sugar
Explore the ingredients sourced from Singapore
Passionfruit
Guests gather for the innovative farm to table meal. A city within a garden, Singapore has limited space for agriculture, opening opportunities for culinary artists like Janice and Rosio to innovate.
Rahul finds inspiration in a flower garden in London. The designer likes to work by exploring the outdoors and then bringing references that inspire him back to his team in the studio.
Rahul and Bianca photograph the womenswear look. To showcase the exoskeleton of the two-piece column gown as an extension of the body, Bianca directs the model to make her face visible from behind the dress’ sculptural extension.
Rahul reviews the bespoke designs. The team was challenged to create a heavily embellished jacket that would not lose its elasticity for comfort. To preserve stretch, the embroidery was meticulously layered—first stitched on separate fabric, then transferred onto jersey—ensuring movement remained effortless without compromising design detail.
Rahul marks jersey fabric in the early production process of designing the bespoke menswear jacket. Bianca’s vision for the men’s look, her speciality, was to integrate elements of Rahul’s womenswear for a fluid showcase of both designers’ signatures.
Behind the scenes of Bianca’s studio in London. The designers brought their international influences to the custom looks for The Movement Exchange for a blend of cultures.
The photographer shoots the menswear look for The Movement Exchange. To show movement both on and off the body, the designers and creative team played with unexpected elements like aura and essence as well as long silhouettes and angular, architectural lines juxtaposed with nature.
Bianca and Rahul take a first look at the photos on set. During the shoot, Rahul described the excitement over the two looks as “infectious,” echoing the community spirit that Bianca credits with keeping her brand alive during the pandemic.
Bianca Saunders, based in London, and Rahul Mishra, travelling from Delhi, came together in Bianca’s studio to merge ready-to-wear with haute couture. In London, the designers fused Bianca’s modern menswear tailoring with Rahul’s intricate couture craftsmanship, blending industrial and natural influences. The collaboration in Bianca’s headquarters pushed the boundaries of their individual styles and allowed their cultural roots to shape the garments, thus expanding their networks.
A cross-cultural exchange in London
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Rahul Mishra
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Bianca Saunders
Based in Delhi, Mishra was the first Indian designer to showcase at the revered Haute Couture Week in Paris. His award-winning collections are regularly met with global acclaim and worn worldwide. As a master of couture textiles and techniques, Mishra incorporates elements of nature, art and architecture into vibrant fabrics and intricate embellishments, from beadwork and textural play to feathers and foliage.
Couturier Rahul Mishra is known for his intricate detail and numerous accolades as a groundbreaking Indian designer.
Fashion Designer India
The resulting blend defines her clothes as bold, gender-defying and an exploration of modern cultures and touchpoints. Founded in 2017, the award-winning label is today sold in 37 global retailers. Regularly collaborating with luxury brands and streetwear labels, Bianca Saunders’ eponymous line is also known for its A-list clientele, with actors, musicians, stylists and editors coveting each collection.
Ready-to-wear designer Bianca Saunders keeps her cult following intrigued by mixing menswear with womenswear and blending British and Caribbean influences.
Fashion Designer United Kingdom
The art piece “Rhizome” explores 3D optical illusions and movement inspired by the Himalayan mountains. It harmonises the geometric forms within Bianca Saunders’ aesthetic with the organic, nature-inspired elements of Rahul Mishra’s couture work.
The Movement Exchange
How can moving between cultures expand fashion’s network? For UK-based designer Bianca Saunders and Indian couturier Rahul Mishra merging perspectives and sharing craftsmanship opens new opportunities for modernised couture.
Weaving cultures with couture
Behind The Movement Exchange, get up close with designers Bianca and Rahul in the studio as they thread their diverse world influences into two looks that speak to new audiences.
Creating new collaborative possibilities
In Bianca’s studio, the pair meet for the first time to create two custom looks that combine Rahul’s couture expertise with Bianca’s ready-to-wear talents.
Bianca works on the first look, a menswear jacket featuring the tailoring representative of Bianca Saunders line. With Rahul’s help, Bianca collaborates on her first couture piece and shares insights about reaching younger audiences with Rahul.
Menswear tailoring
Finding shared inspiration in travel and global landscapes, the designers merge the symmetry of industrial cities with the organic flow of nature. Bianca’s structured textile motif echoed London’s city streets, while Rahul’s intricate craftsmanship reflected India’s reserve forests, creating a dialogue between their cultures.
Mapping a creative vision
For look two, the womenswear look, Rahul goes to work stitching the intricate traditional beadwork of his Indian culture. A two-part bodice was embroidered in multiple processes with black, white and silver sequins that enhanced the tactile and 3D feel.
Beaded by hand
With the goal of modernising couture, the designers explored the opportunity to create a modern garment with both traditional construction and ease of movement, married with pattern—Bianca’s use of stripes and checks and Rahul’s animal motif.
Play with pattern
Using one of Rahul’s jungle-inspired couture pieces as a reference, considering the interplay between natural and manmade patterns, Rahul and Bianca sketched the fabric artwork before embroidering and transferring it onto jersey fabric.
Naturalistic versus industrial
Bianca maps appliquéd wildlife across a beaded city grid, merging Rahul’s embroidery craft with her structured aesthetic for a timeless womenswear detail in a modern menswear look. The result: a design that moves with—and across—the body, balancing precision and fluidity.
Ready-to-move
Swapping tailoring and embroidery know-how in the studio, the exchange of ready-to-wear and couture techniques during the designers’ collaboration led to new skills and business opportunities for both artists.
Trading techniques
Inspired by the streets of city life, London-based Bianca and Delhi-based Rahul weaved a geometric motif through fabric, texture and beadwork, creating a design language built on movement, contrast and cultural exchange.
On the grid
The designers’ vision board from the studio to the shoot. The creative process started with the designers spending time in nature, collecting foliage and exploring the streets of London’s concrete jungle. Then, the team expanded, creating a striking set to complement the pieces.
From moodboard to first look
To illustrate the merging of the designers’ cultures to a global audience, Bianca aimed to translate the movement of landscapes—in the UK and Jamaica for Bianca, in India for Rahul—through the movement of the garments on and around the body.
Movement as wearable art
Hand-appliquéd ravens bridge past and present, honoring London’s industrial spirit beside the Himalayas' untamed beauty. Channelling his cultural roots, Rahul hand-sewed zebras, foliage and flora using embroidery techniques to transform fabric into a painted canvas, merging craftsmanship and storytelling in motion.
Heritage symbols
Shooting the looks
The pieces come alive, captured against a striking red backdrop. Seeing the room’s response to the designs on set, the designers felt first-hand the appeal of their blended crafts and the opportunities unlocked by merging ready-to-wear with couture.
At Bianca’s direction, elements of structure and surrealism became the stars of the final looks paired together. The aura figure, dotted with ravens, and the city-inspired map of warping lines created visually exciting symbolism, guiding fluid movement across the garments.
Movement and form
In contrast, the women’s gown experimented with structure and aura, with an external skeleton extending from a column dress like a shadow, away from the body. An ethereal beaded silhouette formed the attached aura-like structure around a fitted bodice, creating a striking balance between strength and beauty.
The womenswear look
The men’s ensemble was designed with movement in mind—sporty, sleek, and unrestricted. Beadwork on a jacket that still allowed freedom of motion was key to the look’s effortless sophistication for a youthful, modern take on couture menswear.
The menswear look
Translating Dian Cui to the runway
Dian Cui
Revival
Redesign
Harmony
Designing for a mixed media universe This physical-digital fashion show marks a bold new direction for Yimeng’s work as a virtual fashion designer. Expanding from her signature digital outfits to take her fantastical creations to the runway, she sees greater impact when virtual and real elements converge—offering a glimpse into the future of fashion in a mixed reality.
Wearables in a mixed reality Real models walk in a virtual world on the runway for The Design Exchange, illustrating the designers’ vision for the wearable experience. With Yimeng’s expertise, the final look is a prototype of virtual fashion in the future: a mixed reality of digital information and real life.
Heritage artisan materials Victoria, who brought traditional craftwork to the cross-disciplinary collaboration, selected a nylon shell with silk lining and binding to complement the fine craftsmanship of Dian Cui, accented with a faux feather texture for subtle elegance.
The dialogue around a dress More than just clothing, this dress tells a story of heritage and transformation. Details from texture to colour bridge past and future, “stepping into the unknown while staying grounded in tradition,” says Victoria.
Reinventing a traditional silhouette Victoria reimagines the Cheongsam—a traditional Chinese dress known for its high collar and sleek fit—by preserving only its structured top, replacing soft shoulders with bold, square lines, and pairing it with a skirt that drapes effortlessly. The result is a two-piece ensemble that is both powerful and graceful, embodying tradition with a modern twist.
A new way to preserve heritage Tradition meets technology behind the scenes. Designers Victoria Tang-Owen and Yimeng Yu imagine a future where digital fashion gives consumers unprecedented access to perceive, experience, and even wear designs inspired by age-old craftsmanship.
Victoria and Yimeng Yu came together with a shared goal: merge traditional Chinese handcraft with virtual fashion. Victoria’s incorporation of artisan techniques introduced Yimeng to “the warmth and humanistic value” of ancient craftsmanship, while Yimeng reinterpreted timeless traditions through a virtual-fashion lens. Their collaboration shapes a vision where physical and virtual design coexist in harmony. Meeting in Hong Kong, where Victoria is based, was poignant as the place’s centuries-old craftsmanship meets the future of design.
A cross-cultural exchange in Hong Kong
Honoring craft and inspiring future fashion
Take a first look behind The Design Exchange as Victoria and Yimeng blend past techniques with future-forward innovation, redefining fashion's boundaries.
Yimeng Yu
Victoria Tang-Owen
Known for her strikingly lavish virtual-fashion imagery as a designer, Yu integrates new-wave technologies like digital twins and VR into fashion and design production to build otherworldly fashion avatars and digital outfits. As Fashion Design Director and Lecturer at Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, in Beijing, Yu focuses on researching the future of fashion in the era of artificial intelligence.
In the fantastical, futuristic signature style that has landed her work in Vogue Singapore, Yimeng Yu creates digital dresses that look straight out of a virtual-reality, couture-fashion fantasy world.
Digital Designer Beijing
Throughout her varied career, Tang-Owen gained extensive experience with numerous luxury and fashion brands before she launched her own ventures. She founded her multidisciplinary agency and a collaborative platform celebrating Chinese craftsmanship. Her studio often partners with European couture houses, incorporating the specialized handicraft of Chinese seed embroidery under Tang-Owen’s direction.
As a creative director, Victoria Tang-Owen has built brands for a new generation of fashion and culture enthusiasts while maintaining her own creative studios in Hong Kong.
Fashion Designer Hong Kong
Can bridging tradition with innovation preserve a lost ancient craft? Victoria Tang-Owen and Yimeng Yu combine disciplines and create two looks that serve as a portal between the physical and digital worlds.
The Design Exchange
Chinese craftsmanship has a rich heritage and deep cultural meaning. To preserve its legacy while reimagining its future, we brought together Victoria Tang-Owen and Yimeng Yu. By blending tradition with innovation, they aim to revive ancient Chinese crafts and ensure their artistry inspires future generations.
Preserving ancient Chinese craft
Dian Cui, the ancient Chinese jewellery-making craft of inlaying kingfisher feathers onto gilded metal, dates back to the Han Dynasty. It was used in elaborate jewellery and headdresses worn by royalty. Its intricate beauty tells a story of tradition and artistry.
Reimagining Dian Cui for today
Reviving a lost craft, this project honors Dian Cui's legacy, preserving its place in a digital world. Reinterpreting Dian Cui through a contemporary design lens, Victoria's craftsmanship and Yimeng's digital expertise merge tradition with innovation, using contemporary materials and technologies.
Inspiring new generations
For the Design Exchange, Victoria and Yimeng aimed to use digital technology to tell the story of Dian Cui and pass down an important piece of traditional Chinese culture to a younger generation as fewer artisans practice handicrafts.
Contrasting craft in harmony
Yimeng and Victoria worked with an interplay of feathers and filigree, structured nylon and delicate silk: combinations that echoed Dian Cui's contrasting elements of softness and strength, nature and craftsmanship.
Designing for a virtual fashion experience
Two designers blend Chinese art and history with modern design to reimagine the ancient craft of Dian Cui and captivate new generations through virtual fashion.
Futuristic
Artisrty
Digital
In the details
The design team was inspired by Dian Cui's artistry, which is marked by ornate patterns, vibrant hues, and timeless, nature-inspired motifs. Dian Cui's delicate layering techniques create an iridescent effect for a striking detail.
Art in the artificial aesthetic
Yimeng's design for the exchange centered on transforming organic forms from nature into artificial expressions, creating an aesthetic that reimagined the artisan heritage crafts of Chinese history with the digital techniques of today's design world.
When the physical and digital interact
In the Design Exchange, handcrafted design and digital rendering came together in an integrated physical and virtual world, bringing the fashion looks to life in Yimeng's signature futuristic style.
To scale the delicate craft of Dian Cui for the runway, Yimeng explored digital effects like animated blossoms to highlight such ornate handiwork on a digital screen. Ultimately, two models—one real, one virtual—converged in the physical space.
The designers incorporated Dian Cui near the collar on Victoria's garment. Blending her artisanal expertise with Yimeng’s digital craftsmanship, the duo transformed the use of the craft to produce a bold style statement.
Innovating tradition on the runway
Silhouette played a vital role in the design of Victoria’s garment. The strong, square shoulders contrast with a long, flowing skirt to create a statement look that combines strength with fluidity, a future-forward fusion for the modern runway.
Contemporary lines, traditional elegance
Victoria’s design vision for the womenswear look emphasized the balance of a soft silhouette with structured materials. The result on the runway was a striking juxtaposition, showcasing both virtual and real elements in harmony for a dynamic runway look.
Commanding femenine strength
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