The most important details in the self-portrait resort collection are also the smallest: tiny transparent sequins scattered over the top of the dangling, and a dress of light pink and white lace that has little light flirting even on the brightest afternoons of the summer. It’s a subtle but dramatically softening that has underwritten many of the brand’s past collections, while the clothes get another shine. “I’ve heard a lot about ‘decline dressings’,” designer Han told the preview of the headquarters. “And, while I admit I don’t necessarily have that in mind when designing, I feel the atmosphere shift from a loud charm to an investment in which people can wear it over and over.”
The hub for timelessness and trends ultimately gives a season’s look a specific downtown–ends in the old-fashioned hand sanitizer restroom, a subtle horseshoe-shaped jeans, a boy-style biker jacket, a low belt, a small bouclé skirt, a small bouclé skirt, and a drop-off Drop-Waist Maxi’s top skirt and non-cooperative silk tops of silk tops of silk tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops tops. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some big statements in the mix – they’re two pieces of J.Lo coded faux jackets and disco-played by two pieces, which is cooler for the whole thing because of the lack of vague terms, it’s cool. “It’s lightweight, easy, and more modern,” Chong added. “The point is to find staples that everyone has or should upgrade in their closet and upgrade them.” The medieval design has several nods, including swing dresses, cocoon sleeve jackets, and even self-portrait riffs on bar jackets. The classic Amo sweater fills the shoulders, a herringbone dress with a cut hip cut on the hips, while the removable cotton bread extends to the lapels, wearing a change of clothes, a cardigan and a soft leather jacket. “I hope that when the collection comes out in the fall, they will reflect the sun.”
It’s the kind of idea you expect from a pragmatic designer like Chong who is more interested in getting to his customers than telling them where they should go. In fact, most of the collections are built around their future social calendar: tailored, back-to-school mini-dresses and side-wrapped cotton skirts; ostrich feathered LBD and rhinestone mini-skirts for party season; and when to get out when Lunar New Year celebrations begin, as well as Mandarin-style covers, Jacquard shirts and shoulder-mounted chair denim jackets. (It’s nice to see that he himself is Chong of Malaysian Chinese descent, here with East Asian design architecture.) “We usually release special editors for the Chinese New Year, but, this time, I want to bring these traditional elements into a wider environment. What you see here is that you see here is outside of the familiar territory, but everything is rising. “People just want to reset a little bit.” ”
