"London Fashion Week just got a Taiwanese plot twist. Chih-Wen Kuo / Wayne KnittedKuo is basically a textile archaeologist. His collection Sedimentation takes the slow build-up of rocks, memories, and moments and traps them in sweaters. Knots become timelines, stitches become fossils. It's like wearing the strata of the earth, except, instead of crumbling limestone, it's soft, sculptural knits that look like future relics."
"Juan-Juan Xu / juanpak.o Xu's Inter-Shadow is interpersonal drama as fashion. Imagine silhouettes shifting like people ghosting each other, patterns morphing like a conversation that's gone weird. The clothes feel intimate but slightly out of reach, sleek but unsettled. It's basically the outfit version of scrolling someone's Instagram at 3 am and feeling both connected and completely alone."
"Ying Chu / Chuoru Chu is the poet of the group. Her Liminal Forms collection drifts through black, grey, and white gradients, evoking Taiwanese imagery of the soul's journey after death. The knits float and dissolve like smoke signals or incense trails, heavy with meaning but light on the body. They're eerie and elegant, clothes that make you feel like you're halfway here, halfway in another dimension.Bottom line: Taiwan's new wave isn't whispering, it's knitting, twisting, and flexing hard on the London runway."
Four Taiwanese designers presented knitwear-driven collections that transformed traditional knits into sculptural, moody, and sensual silhouettes on the London runway. Chih-Wen Kuo's Sedimentation used layered textures and knotwork to evoke geological strata and memory as wearable relics. Juan-Juan Xu's Inter-Shadow manipulated shifting silhouettes and morphing patterns to suggest interpersonal unease and intimate distance. Yi-Zhen Lin's Vivid Swirl offered ribbed, colour-blocked knits that twist and glow, balancing softness and structure. Ying Chu's Liminal Forms drifted through monochrome gradients, suggesting spiritual journeys with knits that feel weighty in meaning yet light on the body.
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