Pandemic designer outfits: AW collection by Ding Yun Zhang

How will we dress in five or ten years? In short, what will be the trends of the near future? These are recurring and perhaps even banal questions that have always questioned the world of fashion. Well we reveal a secret … there is no certain answer to these questions, and those who promise you the trendiest style perhaps forget that there is nothing more subjective and constantly evolving.

One thing, however, we put here black on white. Trends in the future must not close their eyes to climate change and its consequences. Fashion arises from the context in which we live. It is the noise of a square, the atmosphere of a place, and the faces that cross each other on the street.

The young designer Ding Yun Zhang makes his debut at London Fashion Week with his autumn 2020 collection, but it was the personalized YEEZY Foam Runners that captured everyone’s attention this season. Are you wondering why? The reason is that they are the mirror of the situation we are experiencing today. They reflect the futuristic idea of creating a garment capable of respecting the environment and adapting to climate change.

The Yeezy Foam Runner is characterized by a unique lacing-free design, vaguely reminiscent of the famous Crocs. The model has in fact numerous open spaces on the upper, which allow perfect foot transpiration. What makes this model at the forefront is not in the design, but in the material: a special foam obtained from algae. The merit of this revolutionary shoe is once again of Kanye West who brought the new fully recyclable Yeezy silhouette onto the stage of the Fast Company Innovation Festival.

Here the commitment to protect the environment also shows on Ding Yun Zhang’s autumn 2020 catwalk. The young talent tells the story of a man who is certainly more aware of the situation he is forced to live, and for which he recognizes himself as responsible. Dark colors and oversized silhouettes reveal a slight unease and a sense of unease: just what we are all experiencing right now.

This collection tells our story. The one where we are all the protagonists and nobody can leave the scene. It is the uncertainty of what waits us outside our homes the mood that makes us reflect in these days. Here, to leave the house, we arm ourselves with masks, gloves and everything necessary to protect ourselves just like the models that parade with large padding, technical fabrics and large hoods that barely reveal a face with serious and hard features.

In these large jackets, we feel safe, but perhaps there is no space to also cover our responsibility towards the environment. Clothes that finally have an ethics that looks to the future. An ethics that wants to awaken us and face us with the awareness that we can all do something to support our ecosystem.

In the collection I see strength, revolution and courage to look straight at reality. A reality that needs our actions more and more to improve, or at least not make worse everything around us.

For all those who look at fashion with a superficial eye thinking that style is only a question of clothing, perhaps they have not yet had the pleasure of discovering the pandemic designer outfits of the young talent Ding Yun Zhang and starting to reflect with him on the future that awaits us.

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