Feng Chen Wang is having a moment. Earlier this month, she debuted her designs for the Chinese Olympic flag bearers at this year’s opening ceremony in Beijing, lending her offbeat eye to a series of puffer jackets decorated with inky blue line drawings of frosty mountainous landscapes, alongside slick white jackets and trousers inspired by traditional Chinese tailoring.
Things may be going swimmingly for Wang right now, but this season she was drawn to notions of imperfection. Her signature chopped-and-screwed shapes—this time arriving in the form of hybridized trench coats with puffer details, asymmetric denim jackets spliced with golden padded sleeves, and some intriguing shirting featuring layers of contrasting blue and white panels—dovetailed nicely with this search for the beauty found in flaws. But for Wang, it ran a little deeper, too.
To take this theme over the finish line, she also looked to a handful of references from the history of her homeland. One was the delicate lines and floral details of bodiless lacquerware, a craft tradition that originates from her native Fujian province. Emerald green lacquer was referenced in gorgeous dark green marbled prints across jackets and shirts that had a suitably mind-bending aura for a collection that was intended to defy expectations.
, or Chinese phoenix, at the center of her vision, this time as a new logo. “The phoenix in Eastern culture is genderless, and sometimes switches between female and male, which felt like a good symbol for us,” said Wang, also noting its parallels with her own name.
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