WATERSKY
SHANGHAI TANG launches WATERSKY collaboration with Lifestyle Ambassador Yosh.
For over three decades, the house has been a devoted patron of contemporary art, counting a distinguished lineage of artists among its collaborators on celebrated creative collections.
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Continuing this tradition, the house now unites its Lifestyle Ambassador Yosh with French artist Pierre Marie to present the “WATERSKY” Collection — a collaborative home capsule that draws from the Chinese legend of the carp’s leap through the Dragon Gate.
A symbol of transformation, ambition and auspicious ascent, the motif is reimagined through the vitality of the fish, the majesty of the dragon and Pierre Marie’s contemporary artistic language, bringing traditional imagery into a new world of living.
At the heart of the collection lies the fish — its emotional origin and narrative thread, a quiet echo of the deep bond between Yosh and the community that has long supported him.
For this special project, SHANGHAI TANG invited the artist to reimagine a classic Chinese motif — fish and flora of the sea — long associated with abundance, prosperity, and good fortune. Through his signature visual language, the artist rendered the motif with new rhythm, depth, and contemporary resonance.
Yosh, in turn, contributed his own hand-drawn dragon — a personal mark that lends the collection its spiritual character.
Fish glide through water, ripples turn, algae sway.
This contemporary reimagining of the classic motif is ultimately realised in Song Brocade, one of China's most treasured intangible cultural heritages — a craft celebrated for its fine texture and remarkable depth, preserved across a thousand years, here brought into today's living spaces in a more distilled and contemporary form.
Flourished in the Northern Song dynasty and refined under imperial patronage for over a millennium, Song Brocade has long adorned the robes of scholars and emperors alike. Woven entirely by hand — a single metre demanding more than two hundred hours at the loom — it remains among the rarest and most labour-intensive textiles in the world, with its intricate structure and the quiet weight of pure mulberry silk placing it firmly within the canon of haute couture.
The reinterpretation reflects SHANGHAI TANG's enduring creative conviction: to remain rooted in Chinese culture while continuously exploring its resonance and renewal in the present — a singular invitation into contemporary Eastern beauty.
Yosh's dragon, poised in mid-leap, traces in ink an ascendant and unbound spirit — a fitting embodiment of the SHANGHAI TANG philosophy: to transform within the current, to rise with composure.
The dragon takes form in special pieces such as gilded artistic plates, joining the motif to compose the collection's complete and distinctive visual narrative. Under the name “WATERSKY”, in poetic reference to the Chinese legend of the carp leaping over the Dragon Gate, SHANGHAI TANG transforms an enduring Eastern allegory of aspiration, transformation, and good fortune into a lasting expression of art, craftsmanship, and contemporary living.
