Feng Chen Wang Served the Tea Cool for Fall 2024

“Would you have tea with me?” joked Feng Chen Wang, maintaining a 3-d-printed purse formed like a teapot.

A scorching beverage used to be precisely what the sub-zero Parisian temperatures known as for on Thursday morning. Alas, it used to be handiest the muse of a fall assortment the place Wang persisted to fuse her heritage with contemporary-minded wares.

In Feng’s Southern China fatherland of Fujian, a practice of the tea-harvesting duration is for nation to move across the 100-or-so generating households to resolve the past’s absolute best.

The brew used to be distilled right through the gathering within the palette of earthy tones, finishings like hand-dying the use of mineral pigments — or prints thereof — and washed textures. A grasp of equipment additionally performed into this, together with an overshoe that gave the impression of clay have been sculpted over Converses. (She has an ongoing shoes collaboration with the Nike-owned emblem.)

The fashion designer stored to the extra mature path initiated endmost season, leaning into tailoring another time. Officialism used to be reined by way of main points comparable to scans of denims and workwear published on fits and trenchcoats.  

Corsetry parts signaled a dressier path on a denim blazer, or by means of fascinating pleating results at the torso.

Alternative types performed on her streetwear savvy, specifically for ladies’s silhouettes. Amongst standouts have been a form-fitting dungaree jumpsuit; washed and tea-stained nylon blousons that felt poetic instead than punky; and denims that had the diversion of joggers.

Chilly climate tools comparable to a gliding jacket with a large fluffy collar and cocoon-like coats additionally felt horny — and now not simply as a result of the hour’s climate.

Maximum may want tea piping scorching, however the only Wang served used to be cool.

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