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LOW Prices<br />
2010<br />
LOW Minimums<br />
FAST Turn Around<br />
6 CALIFORNIA APPAREL NEWS JANUARY 29–FEBRUARY 4, 2010<br />
HONG KONG FASHION WEEK<br />
Ika Erik Tam Ika<br />
William Tang<br />
Ali Charisma Dora Chu Diana Xin Marc Cain<br />
Anglomania William Tang Giji Lin Peter Lau<br />
West Meets East on Hong Kong Runway<br />
The runway at Hong Kong Fashion Week was as busy as the city’s international airport<br />
as the Jan. 18–21 event saw 25 fashion shows hit the catwalk, up from 14 last year.<br />
There was a bit of something for everyone. One of the biggest draws was Vivienne Westwood’s<br />
first Hong Kong Fashion Week appearance, where the London house showed its diffusion<br />
label, Anglomania. Westwood was still in Milan for a show there, but her husband,<br />
Andreas Kronthaler, supervised the collection’s Hong Kong debut, which encompassed a<br />
kaleidoscope of fabrics and images that looked like an artist gone wild. Bright orange leggings<br />
with black designs highlighted a dress fashioned from fabric with a burst of bright orange<br />
flowers and white bees on a black background. A plain blue-and-white-striped shirt was<br />
adorned with an image of a Che Guevara look-alike and various sayings splashed across it.<br />
Top regional designers Guo Pei, Dorian Ho, Toshikazu Iwaya and Frankie Xie were spotlighted.<br />
Hong Kong designer William Tang made good use of the harem pant in knit outfits that<br />
looked stylish and comfortable. Indonesian designer Ali Charisma took his penchant for<br />
fancy dresses and played them up to the fullest with almost 90 looks that came waltzing<br />
down the runway.<br />
Ika, another Indonesian designer now living in Hong Kong, cast her Fall/Winter 2010–<br />
2011 collection into a global-sphere theme, presenting nomadic looks with long tunics and<br />
skinny pants, blue- and purple-hued dresses for her Nordic Winter group, and a wide assortment<br />
of colors and prints for her Geo Swirl group. Ika blended as many as seven different<br />
fabrics into each look, culling them from the 150 different fabrics that went into this latest<br />
collection.—Deborah Belgum<br />
COURTESY OF HONG KONG FASHION WEEK