Centrestage is orgénised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council ( HKTDC) with Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region( HKSAR), the Lead sponsor. At the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, 250 brands present their SS25 collections from September 4th to 7th.
Among these brands, 12 have caught our attention. We’ve the pleasure to share this selection with you: Roksanda, Like Poems, Angus Tsui, Ashworth, 112 Mountainyam, Blvck Paris, LH (La Haine Inside us), UCF, Harrison Wong, Genau Studio, DEMO, and Sparkle by Karen Chan.
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ROKSANDA
Designer: Roksanda Ilinčić
Country/Region: United Kingdom
Since founded in 2005, Roksanda has been a mainstay on the London Fashion Week schedule. Designer Roksanda Ilinčić has received multiple awards and nominations for her work including the award for Red Carpet Designer of the Year at the Fashion Awards, Designer of The Year at The Elle Style Awards and Businesswoman of the Year at Harper’s Bazaar UK’s Women of the Year Awards. Her designs have been featured as part of exhibitions at the V&A and the Design Museum London.
LIKE POEMS
Designer: Debaditya Das Barman
Country/Region: India
Like Poems is established by Debaditya Das Barman who is a designer focusing on sustainable fashion after his graduation. Following the concept of sustainability fashion, Like Poems considers and focus on maintainable fashion to be where all creators of a garment (including mother earth) get justice at every level. Debaditya wants to be a sustainable designer simply because he couldn’t possibly imagine creating things in any other way. He strongly believes that no greater good can be attained by harming anything, anyone or the planet. As a result, it can lead to lower and reduce the number of material wastes while designing the outfit..
ANGUS TSUI
Designer: Angus Tsui
Country/Region: Hong Kong
With environmental sustainability at the core, ANGUS TSUI designs are known for their futuristic, avant-garde and otherworldly silhouettes. Founded in 2014, the label received a Bronze Award at the 2017 DFA Design for Asia Awards. Through collaborations with leading international brands and Angus Tsui’s educational charity project ANCares, which coordinates workshops, seminars and exhibitions on the topic of sustainability, the label has secured its standing as a pioneer for sustainable fashion.
ASHWORTH
Country/Region: Hong Kong
Established in California of U.S.A. in 1987, Ashworth created what became known as "the new look of golf", developed a full line of men’s and women’s golf apparel and leisure merchandises with function and quality, which not only changed how golfers dressed, it changed how they thought about what they wore.
The strength of its quality and style, and the determination of a deeply talented design have Ashworth poised to differentiate itself from the pack while adding contemporary relevance and clarity to the golf lifestyle category
112 MOUNTAINYAM
Designer: Mountain Yam
Country/Region: Hong Kong
Ready-to-wear label 112 mountainyam is grounded in a bold philosophy: discover who you are; express who you are. Founded by designer Mountain Yam, the label takes its name from Pantone 112—a hue that simultaneously evokes a sense of futurism, freedom and organic vitality. The brand’s signature pieces use contrasts between elements from the natural world and international cultures to create distinctive, energising and vibrant designs for multifaceted modern women.
112 mountainyam has introduced its collections at Fashion Weeks in Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, London, Paris, Rotterdam, Shanghai and Taiwan. The brand has been featured in WWD, BBC, Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Legend, Tatler, Milk and City Magazine, among others.
BLVCK PARIS
Country/Region : France
Blvck Paris is a lifestyle apparel & accessories brand, supported by millions of highly engaged social media followers and customers worldwide.
The brand was founded in 2017 by French designer, Julian O’hayon and is known for its 'All Black' clothing, accessories and leather goods for men and women.
From visual content to merchandise, we strive to pioneer a new type of lifestyle focused on quality and design. The 'All Black Lifestyle' is a culture shift to live life on your own terms free from vanity. The generic styles of traditional fashion have become obsolete, it's time to Blvckout your life.
LH (LA HAINE INSIDE US)
Country/Region: Italy
The creative talents of LH (La Haine Inside us) are just over thirty. Avant Garde means not having established rules just as the creators of the LH (La Haine Inside us) brand do not have. For all of them creativity has a meaning that goes beyond the expression of their work. LH (La Haine Inside us), 100% made in Italy, was born in 2017 in the heart of Bologna and it is the result or starting point, as the designers prefer to call it, of a contamination of genres, passion for their own vision of fashion and years of experience in tailoring laboratories. The proposal of the Haine inside Us is its own fusion of streetwear and avant garde. Experimentation is one of the crucial values that supports the brand and is the main pillar of its DNA.
UCF
Country/Region: Japan
UCF was started by Ueda College of Fashion in 2014 to propose an innovative brand combining ambitious young creators and Japanese traditional textile weavers. Inspired by extraordinary materials full of craftsmanship, the talented youth create an original and pure “Black & White Universe”. Ueda Fashion College is one of the most famous fashion design colleges in Japan.
HARRISON WONG
Designer: Harrison Wong
Country/Region: Hong Kong
Harrison Wong is one of the Hong Kong’s iconic menswear designers. His fashions are known for their simple, structured, lines, yet dramatic look. Harrison Wong is a brand that focusing on original contemporary apparel and accessories for fit, urban males. Equally present is an understated and very wearable elegance enhanced by his immaculate tailoring. The fashions have an edgy, aggressive design but also emit an understated elegance. Clients will typically be fashion aware with a good eye for design and who tend to incorporate art and taste into daily life. The apparel and accessories will be of the highest quality yet affordable at the same time demonstrating that fine design and taste are not determined by the price tag.
GENAU STUDIO
Designer: Kin Yan Lam
Country/Region: Hong Kong
Genau Studio, a natural-dye-focused, was established by Kin Yan Lam in December 2021. Reflecting on the current fashion ecology, it aims to provide both men's and women's garments ethically. With sustainability and craftsmanship as its focus, it endeavors to create long lasting garments with high quality.
DEMO
Designer: Derek Chan
Country/Region: Hong Kong
Founded by Hong Kong designer Derek Chan in 2014, DEMO is a fashion label that redefines masculinity and femininity, dismantles gender boundaries, and brings together philosophy and poetry in designs created to defy expectations. The aesthetics and attitude exuded in Chan's work are beyond imagination. The brand's signature style of soft masculinity is brought to life with handmade embellishments and embroidery, rich textiles such as tweed, and classical elements that are contrasted with contemporary styling to subvert stereotypes.
SPARKLE BY KAREN CHAN
Designer: Karen Chan
Country/Region: Hong Kong
Karen Chan, JP is the Founder, Creative Director & Chief Fashion Designer of modern Chinese chic designer brands The Sparkle Collection and Sparkle by Karen Chan. Karen apprenticed under the legendary Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritor Master Fung Yau Choi in the art of traditional cheongsam-making, and with an innate sense of style, Karen designs funky modern east-meets-west cheongsams and Tang jackets which retain the intricate Chinese traditional craftsmanship but infused with Western design concepts with regards to patterns, fabrics and wearability, injecting new life and unorthodox game-changing ideas into this priceless national heritage.
CENTRESTAGE
SEP. 4-7, 2024 |
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
www.hktdc.com/event/centrestage
Photo Cover: Birger Christensen Collective, patron of CPHFW NewTalent. The brand offers financial backing to participating brands through dedicated bursaries for their showcases at the SS25 edition of Copenhagen fashion week.