#Mercedes Benz China Fashion Week

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Repost: Fashion Week - Beijing Style!

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diversity on the catwalk

fashion creatives are embracing inclusivity and body positivity, exploring themes such as size, gender, age, race, and disability.

Precious Lee, Ashley Graham, Paloma Elsesser

The fashion industry is constantly improving and evolving, we are starting to see more culture and diversity through ought each season.

In July 2020, Gucci launched its new genderless shopping category on its website called ‘Gucci MX’ using only gender neutral models to showcase the pieces.

Brands such as Simone Rocha, Rachel Comey and Vivienna Westwood are starting to include many more older models to showcase their work this is making the fashion world more diverse and as the seasons go on their seems to be more inclusivity each time.

AlexandraKutas

Hailing from Ukraine, Alexandra Kutas claimed the title of the world’s first runway model in a wheelchair as well as Ukraine’s first fashion model with a disability. Alexandra modelled on the runway during Ukraine Fashion Week in 2015 and a couple of months later unveiled a photography exhibition called “Break Your Chains” alongside photographer Andrei Sarymsakov in an effort to break down society’s stereotypes and negative perceptions of people with disabilities.

Kelly Knox for Grazia 2018

Greater diversity within the fashion community opened up a space to celebrate all beauty and gave a platform for people with disabilities to be more visible. As a result we are seeing more people with disabilities making appearances on runways, on the cover of magazines, in fashion ads and beauty campaigns.

Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture spring/summer 1998

among the roster of major designers Jean Paul Gaultier is notable for his concerted adoption and celebration of queer aesthetics from placing men in skirts in 1985 to repeatedly drawing on the homoerotic motif of the Genet-esque muscly. Over the years he has had many collaborations and with friend and muse Tanel Bedrossiantz to various striking ends. In his spring summer 1998 Age of Enlightenment influenced couture show, Bedrossiantz apps rated in a tightly corseted ruffled gown over a white shirt and tie an image so iconic it was included in the catalogue for vogues 2019 camp.

Somali-American model, Halima Aden 2017

Halim Aden was the first Muslim woman to wear a hijab on the international high fashion catwalk at the Max Mara show held in Milan on 23rd February 2017.

Madeline Stuart is a 20-year-old model with Down syndrome from Brisbane, Australia. Madeline has walked in Art Hearts Fashion Week, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week China, Style Fashion Week, Melange Fashion Week, Runway Dubai, Sunshine Coast Fashion Festival, and Birmingham Fashion Week. She has appeared in Vogue, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Day, Women’s Weekly, Elle, New York Times, People, Marie Claire, Huffington Post, and many more. She was also named Model of the Year in 2016.

Nina Marker famous model with autism

Nina Marker was scouted at a McDonald’s in 2014 and was quickly snatched up by Elite Model Management. She has walked the runway for Chanel, Dior, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Valentino, Givenchy, Fendi, and Versace, among many others. Nina is an advocate for the Autistic community, as she herself has Asperger’s. She has talked openly about being treated differently when she was young and the depression she experienced following that; she is passionate about creating awareness for Autism and wants to show people that Autistic people can do anything they want to do.

Harvard Referencing:

Shutterstock (2020). Unforgettable Photographic Moments: 2020’s ‘Big Four’ Fashion Weeks. [online] The Shutterstock Blog. Available at: https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/big-four-fashion-weeks [Accessed 28 May 2023].

Mcloughlin, L. (2017). Ashley Graham shows off curvy figure in clinging latex mini dress. [online] Mail Online. Available at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4871728/Ashley-Graham-shows-curvy-figure-latex-mini-dress.html [Accessed 28 May 2023].

Brain, E. (2020). Gucci Mx Line Explores Gender Fluidity Within Fashion. [online] HYPEBEAST. Available at: https://hypebeast.com/2020/7/gucci-mx-non-binary-gender-fluid-collection-fall-winter-2020-jackie-1961-bag-lookbook.

Tsui, D. (2019). Finally, Some Age Diversity on the Runway. [online] The Cut. Available at: https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/older-models-of-all-ages-were-on-the-runway-at-fashion-week.html.

Managment, M. (2018). | MiLK Model Management. [online] www.milkmanagement.co.uk. Available at: https://www.milkmanagement.co.uk/women/women/1152-kelly-knox/ [Accessed 28 May 2023].

The Photo Studio. (2018). 20 Disabled Models And How They Got Their Starts. [online] Available at: https://thephotostudio.com.au/all/modelling/20-disabled-models-and-how-they-got-their-starts/. [Accessed 7th June 2023]

Stuart , M. (2015). Madeline Stuart NYFW 1st catwalk appearance with my Jellyfish men. [online] www.youtube.com. Available at: https://youtu.be/n9PMB9y9xAc [Accessed 7 Jun. 2023].

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NE·TIGER S/S’18 Collection by Zhang Zhifeng at the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week on October 29, 2017, in Beijing, China.

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Zhang Zhifeng, 2015 NE-TIGER Haute Couture, Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week S-S 2015

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☔ for the fashion ask if it's not a bother

mercedes benz china fashion week, 2013

guo pei haute couture fall 2019

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Are there any famous NFT arists on MetaOpus?

There are more than 700 excellent digital artists worldwide on MetaOpus, including many students and graduates in Central Academy of Fine Art, Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University and China Academy of Art.

There are many famous NFT arists on MetaOpus.

Dabeiyuzhou (LIN Kunhao), born in 1990 in Fujian, digital artist, crypto artist, BCA Network’s represented artist. He is a hot digital artist in China, who is popular among the young generation because of his fashion and cyberpunk style of artworks. Know as oriental cyborg, he has strong fan base in China. His excellent artworks inlcude “Text Gene Project” and Virtual Butterfly series. Some of his artworks will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in October.

Text Gene Project by Dabeiyuzhou

Kefan404 (b.1996), digital artist born in Zhejiang, China and currently based in Germany. Focusing on digital art, interaction and visual design, his works have been featured by Dezeen, Mercedes-Benz , and Porsche’s “Type7”. In the summer of 2019, he began a longterm project called “Blurred Borders”, focusing on the exploration of surreal and sub-real themes, searching for the balance and constraints between reality and perception.

In March 2021, Kim Kardashian posted his work “A Colorful World” without credit nor consent. He went through a complicated process and finally got the symbolic compensation of 1 USD. However, PayPal has took 40% as the international transaction fee.

Later this year, he has collaborate with Hyundai Motor and Boston Dynamics, but was notified by the team 24 hours after the project final release that they decided to remove it. He said that, “I am truly grateful for these interesting and absurd experiences, they made me realize that life is the most artistic play of tragedy and comedy”.

Impermanence by kefan404

TTS, graduate of the pilot class, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, education chief at the Blockchain Industry Research Center of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). She is the first Chinese artist to hold a solo exhibition at NASA Research Center, and has participated in the cover design of Nature. In 2019, her artwork was launched into space carried by a Chinese commercial stage-to-orbit rocket (the first stage exploded after separation), and “Node”, an installation produced by TTS was exhibited at Shanghai International Blockchain Week, conveying the idea of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). The science fiction “Painting by Child: the Beam Never Goes out” won her the first prize in the 2019 Scifiathon of Social Cosmos held by China Academy of Art (CAA), and was later published by the CAA Press. Solo exhibition held: “Particle Fantasy” from May 25 to June 15, 2019 at NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA Exhibition advisor: Frank Wilczek,the oretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

The Re-cyborg Zoo by TTS

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..and you try to walk through Mitte during the fashion week.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Fashion and Eurocentric standards of beauty

Armine Harutyunyan is a 23 years-old armenian artist and fashion model, who has been included in the list of the 100 sexiest women in the world. This list proves once again that beauty has no standards.

Her appearance made discuss because she doesn't have european features

In the spring of 2019, Armine received an offer to take a photo on one of the streets of Berlin, after which she was invited as a model by the Gucci fashion house and took part in the casting of the Milan White Fashion Week Spring/Summer collection on September 22 2019. Armine walked down the runway with a dress inspired by straitjacket.

In my country, Italy, the Gucci's fashion show in which models dressed in outfits ‘inspired’ by mental illness, inspired a discussion about the commodification of a serious social issue, no one in that occasion talked about Armine Harutyunyan and her appearance.

The firestorm happened after her nomination in the list of the 100 sexiest women in the world.

She became the first Armenian model to appear at a fashion show of a famous brand. In November she opened one of the exhibitions at the 2019 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Tbilisi.

She modeled Dalood, a Georgian brand “for girls not interested in showy street style kitsch.”

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi is Georgia’s premier fashion event offering an international platform for designers from the region to seamlessly connect with media and buyers.

The Mercedes-Benz fashion is committed to building a bridge between designers, artists, photographers, fashion and art experts, journalists, fashion and art personalities from around the world.

In this occasion Armine Harutyunyan was criticised for not being conventionally attractive enough to participate in the fashion industry, much less a Gucci runway show, by Georgians.

But the criticism was not only limited to the young woman’s appearance, it was also deeply charged with anti-Armenian animus, a deeply rooted issue in Georgian society.

HERE FIND THE ARTICLE:

Born into an artistic family in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, her grandfather Khachatur Azizyan is one of Armenia’s most celebrated living artists. Instead of painting however, Armine is an illustrator and graphic designer. It’s also pretty cool to note, that while her mother is a doctor, she also participates in exhibitions too. In fact, she is so supportive, that when Armine was deciding between medicine and art herself, she told her daughter to pursue her creative side.

While she was in Berlin to see her favorite band perform, a fashion scout spotted her and asked to exchange contacts. The fashion scout followed up with her a month later, informing her that she has been casted to be part of Gucci’s show. Seeing an Armenian model walk Gucci’s runway was an exciting moment for Armenian community. It is rare for us to see models that doesn't fit Eurocentric beauty standards. Armine’s beauty is incredibly refreshing, and she certainly stood out during the show.

For so long and still to this day, women have been constantly criticized for their physical appearance based on misogynistic ideas of femininity and the racist idealization of Eurocentric features.

This affected black and asian women too: mainstream beauty standards are represented through White models, as well as the majority of Black women portrayed in the media who most often possess Eurocentric features (e.g., fair skin, long straight hair, thin lips, small nose).

In China and other parts of Asia, women use skin-whitening cream and walk around with umbrellas on sunny days to keep themselves as close to white as possible. Also, in many East Asian countries, a surgery to give women “double eyelids” has become a popular practice, taking away from their own natural, cultural beauty to make them meet the standards of white beauty. In Lebanon, 1 in 3 women will endeavor in some kind of plastic surgery. In India, light-skinned women are considered more attractive than dark-skinned women. Japan even invented a tool to thin one’s nose without the hassle of surgery.

(On the other hand we continue to see the colonial exotication, sexualization and objectification of “exotic” non-white women by white men.)

Yes, Armine Harutyunyan is not “beauty” for the Eurocentric standards you are used to, but showing that her kind of beauty, even if is seen as “exotic”, is rapresented in media and — more important — is accepted by western fashion industry is important not only for Armenian girls but for all the girls who have features similar to hers.

It is truly ignorant for people to not realize exactly how large this problem is within our society. Native American, Asian, Latin, African, Middle Eastern: All these cultures are so beautiful in their own unique way, and to just ignore them in favor of “typical” beauty is racism. Our society needs to realize that supporting Eurocentric beauty standards is just another insidious form of racism that has continued to dominate our mindset.

(Another issue is about how a lot of men online have said that “they won't fuck her” or similars, showing how women on the media are still seen as sexual objects: this is the other face of cybersexual harrasment, in which the same guys feel perfectly comfortable on telling women what they will do with their bodies.)

https://equalityarmenia.org/f/armine-harutyunyan-becomes-first-armenian-to-model-for-gucci

Some examples of Italian sexism, misogyny and they obviously don't see the whole point: making acceptable also not Eurocentric kind of beauty X

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Mercedes Benz China Fashion Week 2018 

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MADELINE STUART

Madeline Stuart is an Australian model with Down syndrome. She was born on the 13th November 1996 and is 25 years old. She has appeared on the New York Fashion Week Catwalk and has also walked Paris Fashion Week, Runway Dubai, London Fashion Week, Mercedes Benz fashion China and many many more! Stuart is a powerful advocate for inclusiveness and diversity in modelling. She has over 850,000 social media fans and is extremely successful.

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disability:

the push to have models with disabilities is an extremely positive aspect of fashion and the catwalks, it shows that no matter the physical or mental disability you may have it shouldn’t discourage you from showing your beauty in fashion

Madeline Stuart:

Madeline Stuart is a 20-year-old model with Down syndrome from Brisbane, Australia. Madeline made history at New York Fashion Week in 2015 in the Hendrik Vermeulen show as one of the first models with Down syndrome to walk the runway. Since then, Madeline has walked in Art Hearts Fashion Week, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week China, Style Fashion Week, Melange Fashion Week, Runway Dubai, Sunshine Coast Fashion Festival, and Birmingham Fashion Week. She has appeared in Vogue and teen Vogue.

Lauren Wasser:

Lauren Wasser has been modelling since she was a teen. She has been featured in Time Magazine and People Magazine and has walked in countless runway shows, including the Kenneth Cole F/W 16 show, the Chromat F/W 16 show, and the Chromat S/S 17 show in New York Fashion Week. In 2012, when Lauren was 23, she lost her right leg due to a nearly fatal bout of Toxic Shock Syndrome and began wearing a golden prosthetic leg. In January 2018, she had her left leg amputated due to ongoing complications from the TSS (toxic shock syndrome).

Lauren is now an advocate for TSS awareness and prevention as well as the acceptance of disabled models in the fashion and modelling industries, she was also named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

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NE·TIGER S/S’18 Collection by Zhang Zhifeng at the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week on October 29, 2017, in Beijing, China.

www.ne-tiger.com

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#MBCFW

NE·TIGER S/S’18 Collection by Zhang Zhifeng at the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week on October 29, 2017, in Beijing, China.

www.ne-tiger.com