UMA WANG FW24 at Paris Fashion Week

UMA WANG Fall Winter 2024 collection at Paris Fashion Week entitled Memorabilia

The quest for less as a stream of memories.

Reminiscences. Of shapes, lines, volumes. The frame of the body, softly impressed on pillows.

The apparent severity that comes from remembrance of something distant, in space or time. Details are erased: what remains is the outline.

Silhouettes of UMA WANG FW24 fall straight and vertically, with a certain bulk. Forms are constructed around the body, precisely tailored, wrapped and knotted to create structure or encase movement.

Structure as posture. Posture as manner. Manner as structure. Structure as a barrier, too: a way to contain the transitory, to avoid memories from being dispersed, and allow them to occupy space.

Drapes are solidified, in an attempt to turn the ephemeral into the permanent, like noting down thoughts on paper.

Fabric with weight. Dry. With a washed hand. Shaggy.

Strictness that contains and liberates, memorably.

Notes By Angelo Flaccavento

ABOUT UMA WANG

Uma Wang, Chinese name is Wang Zhi. She trained at the Dong Hua University in Shanghai and Central Saint Martins in London. Since the establishment of the personal brand in 2009, she has gained an international reputation for her unique understanding of fabrics, exquisite tailoring, and balancing sophistication with timeless aesthetics.

She is the first Chinese designer that entered the calendar of Milan Fashion Week and joined the schedule of Paris Fashion Week in 2017. Her unique style has attracted the attention of the top buyers in the world. UMA WANG brand has covered more than 30 countries in the world, including China, Japan, Italy, France, and the United States.

Uma Wang entered the 2015 Forbes China Designers list and was chosen by the BoF 500 for six consecutive years (“The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry”). Vogue Italia proclaimed her the “Up and Coming Talent” that deserved more worldwide attention. In 2012, the Council of Fashion Designers of America picked her for its inaugural China Exchange program. The international fashion industry regards Uma as one of the leading figures in contemporary Chinese designers.