{"id":6102,"date":"2010-02-22T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modacycle.com\/?p=6102"},"modified":"2010-02-22T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:18:01","slug":"jsong-fall-2010-collection-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/2010\/02\/22\/jsong-fall-2010-collection-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Jsong – Fall 2010 Collection – New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

story by Michael Fragoso
\nphotos by Freda Henry
\nphoto editing by Katie Piper<\/p>\n

Demure in a floor length black brocade gown, designer Way Zen pours Ti Kuan Yin tea for herself in preparation for her show. \u201cI don\u2019t care about any of the trends of today, I just worry about what I like,\u201d she says. Way\u2019s homeland of China is what she calls her \u201croots,\u201d but her main inspiration for the line is a merging of Ancient Chinese and Old New York. \u201cHowever, I prefer to use a blend of New York and Chinese heritage, since I\u2019ve lived here for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

These ideas and influences can clearly be seen in her designs, featuring throwback patterns to ’40s Manhattan Art Deco and Chinese motifs of good luck koi fish and dragonflies. The clothes themselves are intensely wearable and all feature hand-treated fabrics. Way describes her technique: \u201cthis season, we treated all of the tulle, brocade and lace with hand dyeing and texture techniques.\u201d \u201cWe wanted to create an organic look, lots of animal motifs, simple colors, leaves and foliage.\u201d That\u2019s not to say that JSong is a simple safari theme exercise. Its sophisticated looks and beautiful tailoring call back to a much more glamorous era.<\/p>\n

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Hand sewn embroidery, appliqu\u00e9s, and beads were featured on many of the dresses, which were long and conservative without looking matronly. Models wore minimal makeup and an elegant chignon, a stark different to past shows where makeup and hair took the center stage. Some of the more breathtaking looks included a metallic dress with a Chinese-inspired motif, and an elegant 40s-inspired black and white gown, complete with a great checkered pattern.<\/p>\n

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Zen has a devil may care attitude when it comes to trends and seasons. She creates exactly what she thinks is beautiful and easy to wear, and that\u2019s exactly what it came across as: simple and elegant.<\/p>\n

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Overheard at the show, a woman loudly whispered to her friend \u201cI must get that, that, and that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Way\u2019s influence can clearly be seen in her designs, featuring throwback patterns to ’40s Art Deco in Manhattan and Chinese motifs of good luck koi fish and even a dragonfly. The clothes themselves were intensely wearable and all featured hand-treated fabrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[470,514,100],"class_list":["post-6102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fall-2010","tag-jsong","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}