It’s sort of like how Americans often sport Chinese symbols in tattoos or clothing without really knowing what it could mean. Same goes for Asia. These fine people go about their day blissfully unaware they are wearing something with an extremely crude and/or inappropriate message printed across their chest. See the vast collection below:
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Good China, Dresses by artist Li Xiaofeng
Something delicate and beautifully shattered is repurposed into sculptural fashion. Artist Li Xiaofeng transforms fragments of ancient ceramics from the Song dynasty, Yuan dynasty, Ming dynasty, and Qing dynasty into striking wearable art. Each shard is carefully arranged and linked together, forming glistening, intricately patterned dresses that blur the line between artifact and avant garde couture. It is fragile, historic, and boldly reimagined.
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Sigrid Agren by photographer Emma Summerton
Sigrid Agren stars in a playful and luxurious editorial for Vogue China Collections’ April 2015 issue. Photographed by Emma Summerton, the series fuses 1980’s flair with Marie Antoinette-inspired opulence, creating a visually rich, high-fashion narrative. Pastels, jewel tones, and lavish styling combine to create a dreamy, regal atmosphere with a contemporary twist.
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CHIHARU OKUNUGI by DAVID DUANAN
A pale ghostly editorial for Vogue China’s December issue featuring model Chiharu Okunugi photographed by David Duanan. Se Chiharu pose in the woods with delicate butterfly applications. Model: Chiharu Okunugi Photographer : David Dunan Fashion Editor/Stylist: Rebecca Corbin-Murray Hair Stylist: Nicolas Jurnjack Makeup Artist: Alice Ghendrih Lucia Cheptene – Manicurist Casting Director: Ben Grimes
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Vogue China December 2014 by Tim Walker
Tim Walker brings his signature sense of fantasy and drama to Vogue China December 2014. The editorial unfolds like a lavish dream, filled with theatrical poses, rich styling, and an undercurrent of luxurious mystery that keeps the viewer hooked from the first image.
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China has Banned Instagram
China known for being strict has reportedly banned popular phone application Instagram because of its overwhelming politically charged coverage of pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong. Social media outlets have been flooded with the protests. These demonstrations in Hong Kong have created a messy spectical with citizens being tear gassed and maced. Images of these events are all over the internet. China is doing its best to filter the events that are taking place. These protests were the result of the governments choice to only allow their pre-approved candidates to run for political authority.
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Vogmask and Face Slap SS 2015 Villain?
The Vogmask and Face Slap Spring Summer 2015 collaboration arrives with a sense of playful confrontation, blending fashion, function, and costume like exaggeration. The collection feels pulled from a pop culture universe where heroes and villains are defined by color, mask, and attitude. There are clear visual echoes of Saturday morning television references, from superhero teams to animated fighters, yet the result feels intentional rather than nostalgic cosplay.
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Illustrations by Mojo Wang, Sex, Pain and Secrets
Mojo Wang’s illustrations do not arrive quietly. They confront the viewer with intimacy, vulnerability, and psychological tension, all rendered through surreal compositions that feel deeply personal yet deliberately unresolved. Working from China, Wang creates images that sit at the intersection of beauty and discomfort, where desire and suffering are not opposites, but intertwined states of being.
