Singapore Fashion Festival 2007
Lu Kun Fall/Winter Haute Couture and Ready-to-wear
25th March 2007, 8.30pm
The Tent @ Ngee Ann City
Orchard Road, Singapore

Singapore Fashion Festival Presents Lu Kun Fall / Winter Haute Coture & Ready To Wear Collection 2007

After winning the “Best Young Designer in China” award by the Shanghai Fashion Federation in 2004 and ranked as one of the top ten overall fashion Design Masters of China in 2005, Shanghainese designer Lu Kun was soon referred to as “the Galliano of China”.

Lu Kun features often in the top fashion stories in China and many other countries world-wide. The buzz about Lu Kun that is loudest; however is that his aesthetic mission is to build a bridge between the heady days of the 1930s Jazz Era of Shanghai and the fashion needs of today. Lu Kun and high fashion are thus interchangeable terms in Shanghai and Asia at large.

Presenting “Victorian Apsaras”, his Fall / Winter Haute Couture & Ready To Wear Collection at the Singapore Fashion Festival 2007, Lu Kun draws his inspiration from Apsaras, the feminine spirits of nature as well as the restrained sexiness of the Victorian era.

Against the nostalgic voices of the Shanghai divas of the 1930s, Lu Kun presented his fall winter collection which sees leotards with sequin trimmings and tops with puff sleeves of black chiffons.
The couture collection showcased mermaid dress in gold satin, Cheongsam in scarlet velvet and corsets in denim. Ballerina bodice with lace trimmings and night dress that exudes the sexiness of the modern women, Lu Kun is no short on expressing his touch of sensuality in his designs.

As the models parades in an array of apparels, Lu Kun has liberated the Asian female who is widely perceived to be constrained and conservative, hidden behind an austere facade. Under the hands of this designer; this female form, is revealing the inner self, literally exposing the undergarments and its undertones. As if to make his point, Lu Kun took to the stage, sashaying down the runway at the end of the show, waving an oriental fan. This is one designer who has successfully created a look that fuses eastern glamour and western sensibilities that is sexually confident, romantic, and yet historically seductive.

Text by David Liew.
Photography by Eugene Tang and Warren Wee.
Videography by Pom Tiong Han and John Tan.
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