These should have been two separate visions. Yet somehow, they appeared in the same dream of creative director Feng Chen Wang.
The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove - scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties who gathered beneath bamboo canopies, drinking, debating, and turning philosophy into a visible, lived freedom. And Botticelli’s Primavera - a garden allegory where gods and nymphs wander through perpetual bloom, telling stories of desire, transformation, and rebirth, rendering spring into a poetic manifestation of beauty and vitality.
In Feng Chen Wang’s dreamscape, these worlds find each other.A convergence of art, culture, and literary spirit. A dialogue between East and West. The silhouettes embody a duality, moving freely between two traditions. Ancient Chinese scholars’ robes appear through generous proportions, cascadiing folds, and liberated volumes. Renaissance drapery introduces a classical fluidity, enveloping the body with the presence of both deity and poet. Raw edges remain unfinished. Threads drift loose. Ties unfurl softly, as though touched by a passing breeze.
This season feels like a bamboo grove worn on the body; or blooming garden on-the-go.Textile emerges naturally from this encounter: hard and soft, opaque and translucent, East and West, each finding its place. Floral motifs bloom across surfaces in meticulous formation while their stems dissolve into expressive ink-like strokes, as if sketched within a dream Sheer fabrics evoke morning mist and the diffused luminosity found in old paintings. Color moves like a painter’s palette—Eastern washes meeting Western oils in quiet harmony.
New tailoring introduces draped constructions that flow effortlessly from the shoulder. Womenswear is assured and independent. Menswear stands poised and upright, carrying the quiet resilience of bamboo.
Dreaming of Spring is an ode to cultural fluidity and creative liberation. Feng creates a world where culture is not preserved behind glass, but reawakened through movement, craft, and imagination. What emerges is a new poetic landscape that connects, transcend, and dreams beyond borders.
*This season, Feng Chen Wang and Under Armour unveil their first chapter together. An evolution of a relationship that began organically, with Feng first incorporating the brand’s performance silhouettes into her FW 26 collection which was shown at Shanghai Fashion Week earlier this year. The collection fuses Eastern and Western influences, signature flashes of Chinese red run throughout, while innovative high-performance materials bring a retro-futuristic edge. A new design language for movement, this collaboration unfolds as a creative dialogue to explore freedom and expression through an open and hyper-creative lens.