CPLUS SERIES SPRING SUMMER 2023 AT NEW YORK FASHION WEEK

about CPLUS SERIES

Born in Taiwan, C.T. Liu studied film before graduating from Shin Chien university in Taipei with a degree in Fashion Design.

His two prior stints at design garnered many accolades and awards (Ten Most Successful Brand in Asia, Most Potential Asian Designer, The Best Innovation Design of Shanghai Fashion Week). In 2018, C.T launched CPLUS SERIES with a debut runway at New York Fashion Week.

CPLUS SERIES perseveres with the aesthetic of pragmatism – exploring concepts of simplicity while dissecting the quality of each and every item, adding the “plus” to Liu’s design approach. The brand celebrates unconventional beauty, graceful self-appreciation, with a little irreverence to tradition by its unorthodox methods: innovative fabric development, experimental cutting and use of materials, imaginative pattern deconstruction.

CPLUS SERIES collections are urban and modernist while poetic and abstract; each piece standing strong with its own singular story.

CPLUS SERIES Spring/Summer 2023 Collection Present Sporadic Scene

There is a universal desire to control time, whether by going back to the past or by prophesying to the future. However, time is bounded by its own laws.

Set in a future where time is uncertain, illusion abounds reflecting past and future in equal measure. Beauty is polymorphic, its standards defined by chance and accident. Are classical and dignified paradigms, once the standard, still the reference? Is symmetry still the defining parameter of beauty? Or is beauty something that now happens by accident, breaking through unpredictably. No longer a dogma, beauty has morphed into the incidental. 

With its CPLUS SERIES Spring/Summer 2023 Collection, C.T. Liu unpredictably blends denim, prints, retro and sci-fi references to expose beauty as a poetic and abstract allegory.

Liu amalgamates vintage and futuristic prints and riffs retro styling quirks with sci-fi exemplars. He stays true to his code – a multi-level control of fabrics, an iconic printing language, a free combination of soft and substantial materials, and an appropriate combination of perennial and innovative techniques – while experimenting with retro prints on silk and chiffon, and hollowed & brushed knit fabrics. His expression of the future is proposedly retro sci-fi with key silver metallic pieces: a tank pleated gown, a hand crochet halter top, a jacquard woven by cotton tape yarn jacket.

In collaboration with Levi’s, Liu creates serendipitous pieces – skirts, pants, dresses – by artfully splicing, dislocating, dyeing and aging dark and light denim, and manipulating weaving, stitching, deconstruction, and reconstruction. The experiment demonstrates the factor of chance in creating beauty.

For its 10th season show, CPLUS SERIES raises interesting ideas: a commentary on the propensity of fashion to emulate references from prior decades, and the perception that the parameters of beauty have evolved exponentially in recent years. 