Huishan Zhang Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear

While London Fashion Week rumbled on despite the city’s somber mood, Huishan Zhang found himself in the peculiar situation of watching it all unfold from afar. Marooned in his studio in Qingdao because of strict Chinese quarantine rules, the designer reverted back to the dismal reality of two years ago. Still, he is looking forward. “I wanted to know how the clothes of my homeland would look in the future,” Zhang explained over Zoom. “And I didn’t want to wait to find out.” The always positive designer took the traditional Chinese cheongsam as his starting point and then catapulted it into 2046. Inspired by Wong Kar-wai’s sci-fi romance titled after the same year, as well as the AI thriller