i would go for this as my favorite at
the moment right now
because i also just gave on to my mom as
well she was like i really wanted
something and i was like i'll give you
this
this is where the magic happens because
if you look at the history
of clothing like culturally the japanese
are very well preserved in the kimonos
and the geisha world and then you have
indians you have the saris
and all of that clothing is still very
rich and embraced in their culture
but the chinese like tan zhang and
shipow is something that's
not so integrated but if we were
cheaper now they people be like
what happened today is it chinese new
year we put it into this category where
it's
festivals and celebratory wear and
it's not really everyday wear so if you
do wear it every day
you will get a certain look of like oh
my god i'm lord holger but it's like how
do we break away from that mindset
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hello i'm jason i'm one half of yapit
hi i'm onyang i'm another part of japan
from the start of the brand it was
always about
bringing traditional chinese way
into nowadays where it's relevant and
people understand it
we really looked at our own way we
dressed
what clothing we owned and then from
that we was like oh there's something
missing here
we want to wear it but it's not
available yet
the wardrobe is dominated by t-shirts
and jeans and it's a very daily
necessity that everybody wears
but the chinese like tanjong and cheapao
is something that's not so
integrated
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the root of the idea was to use all the
chinese elements
i mean the history of all the different
dynasties and there's literally so much
you can
learn from that's like what 5 000 years
of history
even for us to understand it more and
how those pieces of clothing can
fit into your daily wardrobe
when we living in some showpower you
can't avoid seeing
all these inspiration and those
starting to infuse into our research and
then
slowly we realized the picture is very
clear that we should
be doing some showpo
hong kong chinese culture
inspire i feel like the first collection
was
definitely shapes based because we were
really looking at you know the qing
dynasty like the shapes of all the
traditional women's clothing and it was
very opposite to how
the western corset was it was very
figure-hugging it showed the feminine
body and the busts and
but in the chinese world it was very
just fabric you know you were just
covered up and
maybe you'd have these tiny feet but
then you had these big light
on top it was a huge oversized shape
and we're comparing this shape with the
western
hip-hop style aggie yeah
but we didn't intentionally want to make
it cool we want to make it relevant but
with our own kind of like weirdness and
our own touch
i feel like that's how sometimes our
research happens
is that it it's just the feeling of like
why am i so obsessed with this nude
button or this hem
of the trouser or this new shoe or this
research that we found and we get really
obsessed and
we kind of fall into that kind of mode
of like breaking it all apart and then
regurgitating it in a way that is our
own
we're a little bit like scavengers we
like to collect stuff and we have loads
of like bits of it could be like a vest
top then it could be like some
things that we've printed out that we've
seen and then we just collect it all
together and then eventually when we're
at that point where we're actually
designing pieces
those research items come out and then
it helps us
along with that process these are
photos taken by our dear's friend van
hang
this is actually the second slot of
photos by him
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i think 2020 we're embracing a lot more
than we used to in terms of chinese
clothing
and obviously i think for the past few
years that you can see like the wave of
people going back and searching into
their culture
and their roots and embracing it even if
you look at the matrix and the costumes
that they're doing it's very heavily
influenced by chinese wear
people who get it are already there
first wearing stuff like that like
there's definitely something in that
quality that
people navigate towards because it
represents a certain
zen-ness and beauty and you know when
you're dressed in that chinese where
in an outfit it's always nice when
you're personalizing it
with your own styling and maybe you
don't want to wear the kung fu shoes
maybe you want to wear it with a
different
like sneaker or a leather lace up dr
martin's shoe or
just i think those details that you
insert in your look
will make it not so like oh my god
that's really okay i get it now you're
wearing like head to toe chinese where i
get it
right whereas you what you want to do is
not be so obvious so that maybe it's
like a yin
there's got to be a good marbling of
things you know
that for us our intuition is to tell us
don't overuse it
let's reinterpret it in our way
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