London Mens Week Report | Staffonly: The Beauty of Fear

Staffonly designers Wen Ya and Zhou Shimo estimated that they were afraid of snakes and mosquitoes. However, in the 2019 spring/summer series, they intended to overcome their own fears and regard them as the driving force for their own advancement. Of course, fear is multi-level. In civilized society, mental illness is more dangerous than animals. “Alienation and silence may be the best protection for contemporary life,” wrote the show notes. As everyone knows, these two are also the biggest invisible killers in contemporary society.

Supported by GQ China Presents, a young designer support project of Zhiqi GQ, the studio Staffonly in Shanghai returned to the city where the two designers studied. Staffonly has been full of ingenuity and dramatic elements since the first season. This season, aside from those insect-like decorations and 3D-printed snakes, as well as complicated styling, the clothes themselves may be the most conclusive quarter so far.

This does not mean that the new season's clothes are simple. Whether it is a white T-shirt with a backpack in the back, a pocket that can reach into your fingers, an oversize side-suit that looks like a skirt, or a sweater that draws on the details of the drawstrings. Chen Fuyuan, the fashion director of Zhiqi GQ, said: “Staffonly is good at playing fun with functional costumes. Although it is much less colorful than previous works, it is interesting and novel to decorate with animals such as insects and snakes. With the lighter texture of the clothes, the function and the clothing itself, the understanding of the two people is even better."

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