VLOV – QING QING WU Spring 2012 METROVELVET TV
The Chinese upcoming designer QingQing Wu made debut into the American market during Mercedes Benz New York fashion week, with his menswear line VLOV, Wu introduced us into a new perspective for spring summer 2012 concentrating his work on making a fusion between east/west and delivering a sophisticated prism that reflected fashion forward aspects on menswear. Practical in sort of ways; using fabrics that work in hand with the fast dynamism of men’s life, aesthetic that also represents; class, style and builds a whole concept that brought to the table materials and fabrics that are effortless and at the same time were dispersed into a full collection.
For Wu was imperative to have a sharp execution that could show his acknowledge in tailoring process, hitting a striking point of sleek & polish statements for men, but to have a clear reference from this collection; a lot of the designs and their construction are reminiscent of Chinese uniforms or related from their cultural dressing rules; priest necks and crossed fronts of blazers as kimonos, convey an inception in were the power and impact of those important pieces was portrayed to make contrast with his severe dignified style, which complements the remarkable construction that plays with a thrilling forward method; from spiral architectural-pattern; (the blazers constructed in spiral form), boxy silhouettes and few to count as fitted or tailored that represented controlled elegance, and off course let’s annex the overall clarity and abstraction from colors like; cerulean blue, black, grey’s and neutral-mate tones of beige that played a diffusive monochromatic scheme throughout the entire collection.
His successful contrivance with lightweight fabrics, (as the non iron high-ended lightweight, which was used to construct almost every single piece) created a preferential chance of not having clothes as layers and have a fresh amplified vision per piece. Wu implied the idea of having models sporting effortless looks that didn’t mix any complexity with “layering”, it seems that he wanted the blazers and jackets to feel as softer and light as button shirts or T-shirts, in were deep V neck lines on blazers showed his approach of men not being afraid to draw alluring attention. In the other hand boldness & minimalism are as well included as main convergence in the collection; none patterns and absorption of details were mainly important for the creation of each piece, yet this opened the doors to Wu for the use of zippers and hide pockets that add a playful daring touch.
Certainly VLOV collection revamps the menswear trends into precious modern-sportswear timeless pieces for any season, Wu is going all for it by giving his own twist to the collections; they’re smart, sharp and perhaps others will be following his aesthetic and theme pretty soon.
ByJhon Jairo Santos
Fashion Director USA
Jsantos@Metrovelvet.com
Photography by Michel Ching
Models: Francisco Lachowski, Aiden Andrews, Sebastian Sauve, Berthold Rothas, Corey Baptiste, Sean O’Pry, Patrick Rukai, Designer Richard Wu