The poetic narrative of the talented London based duo Sean + Seng immortalizes in this second collaboration for Shanghai Tang which has developed into the story telling. Black and white photographic images overlap with unusual color compositions to tell a dreamlike journey from East to West. The background of Venice, far from the cliché, becomes a place immersed in an evocative and luminous abstraction. La Serenissima, a city of ever-changing charm, metamorphic and timeless, depicts the true door of the East and stands on the stage for the meeting of different and complementary civilizations and suggestions. Imaginary landscapes, scenarios suspended in time and space come together in the Autumn / Winter collection for the historic Hong Kong brand.

The flight of columns and red plasters in the earthenware pesto of San Francesco della Vigna seem to fade in certain corners of the Forbidden City in Beijing. This aspiration to explore and learn is what drove Marco Polo to travel the Silk Road along the chapters of an epochal adventure, thus allowing others the freedom of travel and knowledge.

The Arsenal, with its solemn marble portal and the Istrian stone ashlar, watched over by the lions of Delos, transforms itself through a luminosity of oriental painting, suggests fabulous routes and caravanserais, between caravans that run through the desert and ancient sailing ships of the sails drifting at sea.

The lagoon, in front of the canonical Casino degli Spiriti at Fondamente Nove, translates into a reflection of molten silver and mother-of-pearl, mirrored by a thousand refractions, for an intimate narrative that is hovering over water in a fluid and suspended element. Deflated into a landscape the models become mesmerized in the moment and become locked in a gaze. The models Jia Li & Li Linzhi join us in Venice with male model Takuya Ebihara.