The oriental brilliance of Shiatzy Chen
Shiatzy Chen has done it again. For its next collection, the maison is once again combining traditional Chinese elements with absolute contemporaneity.
Come and see, because the show has begun!
As the first Chinese brand to set up shop on the prestigious Avenue Montaigne in Paris, a place that brings together the most prestigious fashion brands in the world, Shiatzy Chen has been able to reinvent Chinese fashion like no one else, mixing the purest tradition of the eastern country with contemporary western cuts, thus achieving a presence at the Paris Fashion Week since 2009.
Throughout all these years, the fashion house has managed to carve out a niche for itself in the wardrobes of the most demanding lovers of fashion and sophistication.
For this spring-summer 2025, Chen opts for a collection in which it extols the know-how of the traditional oriental brush, with which it seeks to value both Chinese culture and other artistic fields such as writing.
In this way, Shiatzy Chen immerses us in a collection designed in detail, an authentic, beautiful collection, with silhouettes sculpted to perfection.
Designs that take us back to the twenties, with straight cuts, low waists, pieces with Chinese brocade, double-breasted vests, and other traditional embellishments that refer to those beloved and crazy years.
For Chen, everything is light, fluid and, above all, with little or no ostentation.
Within the colour palette used by Chen we can find celadon, so characteristic of Chinese culture, as well as khaki and light yellow, which combines perfectly with the jet black of calligraphy ink.
There are also recurring tones in Chen‘s collections such as ivory and deep red, to which the designer has sought to continue giving the prominence to which we are accustomed.
And in the midst of this maelstrom of tonalities, the textures, which Chen also makes the protagonists of the next season. Its textures will leave no one indifferent with the use of embellishments such as light wool fringes and patent leather.
Topazes, white mother-of-pearl, and black agates are sewn together to give shape to dragonflies and irises, the protagonists of this season, providing brilliant touches and a special nod to the brush that the designer makes the epicentre of a collection in which modernity and tradition, East and West, retro and new are combined.
Chen also bets on the use of accessories for the next season.
Accessories whose shapes stylise the figures, giving them a touch of elegance and poetry.
The shoes, for their part, are presented with metal heels, which emulate the strokes of that oriental brush, a symbol of the free spirit, a symbol of the gentle but forceful spirit of oriental culture.
