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Asian-American Designers On The Rise
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Today’s Asian-Americans have come a long way from the stereotypes that have been bestowed upon them by past generations of asian immigrants. Those of us born and raised from a-typical asian families who value a future in the Golden Career Triad of business, medicine and law, can take it a bit easier knowing some of our peers are making a living outside of that.
According to the Wall Street Journal’s “A Design Generation Rising“, fashion design is seeing a rise of Asian newcomers, a few whom had to go through the routine of hiding their true desire until proven successful and/or bear the shame and disappointment elicited from traditional families from their career choices.
In Montreal, one of the very first blog posts I’ve made was the interesting presence of Asian designers in the city, in which designers like Andy-The Anh, Simon Chang, Siphay Southidara, and Dinh Ba have made significant splashes in the local and national fashion scene in the past decade.
The profiles of internationally known Asian photographers and stylists are still low on the radar - Tommy Ton is gaining some momentum as Photographer Du Jour…and that’s about it. As for editors, only a couple of made a splash so far: Janice Min, formerly of US Weekly, and Sojin Lee, formerly of Net-a-porter and now of Fashionair.com.
Pass The Milk, I’m Making a Dress
Well. The world of fashion technology has really flung itself into the Twilight Zone because this is the first time I’ve ever heard of “gauze-like fabric” being made of 100% milk proteins.
The Norwegians have cracked the genetic code that allows them to create these fabrics and are part of a movement going on in the Scandinavian north for sustainable fashion. And coming from a source like The Wall Street Journal…this is really not a joke.
Milk voile fabric doesn’t seem to come cheap either, this is eco-luxury at its best. FIN, an eco-lux Norwegian brand, has its milk voile dresses priced at €569, roughly over $890CAD.
