The SANKUANZ 2024 autumn and winter series debuted at Paris Fashion Week. Designer Shangguan Zhe continued the inspiration from when the brand was founded 11 years ago, heading towards Mount Kailash, the sacred center of Eastern culture, and using fashion language to explore classics and modernity, high fashion and street, and the Orient. A deep fusion of imagery and Western presentation methods. The show installation was jointly presented by SANKUANZ and Swiss visual art team ENCOR Studio, using lights to simulate the magnificent landscape of Kailash. The show music is “Seven Diamond Lines” composed by musician Yan Jiaqing. The vocal chanting seems to form a sensory passage leading to the top of the sacred mountain.
Taking its signature style from the oversized silhouettes of oriental clothing, SANKUANZ blends fashion with streetwear. The draped and wrapped design of traditional Tibetan robes has been moved to the silhouettes of coats, sweaters, and jackets. The slanted lapel, a traditional oriental dress element, is presented in a modern design context. Tops are twisted and cut, and dresses are divided into geometric shapes. The neckline, the three-dimensional wrap-around collar like Hada, and the V-shaped spliced waistband of raw jeans, etc., these items will show a random twisting effect when worn, giving the oriental large silhouette a sense of strength that combines classicism and ruggedness. The brand’s iconic Dagger symbol is used as a decorative embellishment on zippers, hat ropes, etc., and a series of accessories have been launched. The fashion details like magical instruments resonate with the theme of Kailash. In terms of color, this season uses a large number of colors with natural elements such as purple, earthy brown, camouflage green, and blue. In addition, SANKUANZ also collaborated with Korean tattoo artist and illustrator Miki Kim to create prints of his orchid and mantis series using street graffiti techniques.
In terms of shoes, the outsole of Dagger shoes continues on the new season’s cowboy boots and mules slippers, and is added with color rubbing and distressing techniques. The Bumpy series brings new footwear and apparel for the first time.
