Shanghai Tang has released its new Fall/Winter 2021 Ready-to-Wear Collection.
Celebrating “flowers, birds, fish and insects”, an eternal theme long preferred by China’s scholar-artists, the new collection presents original tailoring designs via forms including printing, jacquard, embroidery, and lace patch. It allows wearers to embrace an aesthetic world that fuses the Chinese heritage and Shanghai Tang’s modern vision through the disruptive redevelopment of classic elements.

For blossoms that last merely a few days, it still requires year-long cultivation. As early as the Han Dynasty, Chinese literati had the custom of arranging and admiring flowers.

Over the years, the rare black tulip variety artificially cultivated carry chic, elegant purple petals, which glow like fireflies at night – the reason why the flower is adored as the "Queen of the Night".

Building on black tulip’s mysterious yet noble air, Shanghai Tang applies the variety’s unique silhouette to its new-season womenswear and accessories, highlighting sophisticated tulip embroidery against the elegance of plain-colored lace cheongsam.

Reinventing the bird-and-flower topic cherished in traditional Chinese paintings, Shanghai Tang adopts classic tailoring forms like printing to incorporate elegant, philosophical presentations of flowers and birds.

Endowed with aspirations and visions, the seemingly-straightforward bird-and-flower theme represents the benevolent qualities pursued by Chinese literati. That’s exactly why we choose to engage such a natural topic to convey a disruptive and meaningful style.

Since ancient times, fish viewing has been a gracefully tranquil enjoyment in China.

Based on koi fish that symbolizes abundance and auspiciousness, Shanghai Tang designs brightly-colored prints of rippling fish ponds that accommodate koi fish roaming in lucid water and soothing breeze.

In the men’s RTW collection, the signature cashmere Tang jacket carries a simple profile that well echoes its bright inner prints, as they jointly forecast a prosperous future.

For the Chinese, a butterfly revealing lively postures symbolizes both the beauty of love and the freedom of soul, and at the same time, denotes those fragile yet beautiful moments of life.

First flourishing in the Tang Dynasty, flower-and-butterfly paintings are famous for their gorgeous colors and graceful gestures.

Inspired by such heritage, Shanghai Tang bases its exclusively-designed flower-and-butterfly prints on silk scarves, adding an eye-pleasing touch of liveliness and perfection to the bleakness of autumn and winter.