SHANGHAI, CHINA.- The 2023 Autumn-Winter Shanghai Fashion Week officially kicks off on March 23, 2023. As a trendsetter in Chinese fashion, Shanghai Fashion Week stimulate new ideas and pioneer new models while creating a fashionable event in the city. It explores multi-dimensional experiential venues, sensory experience social check-in spaces, and continue to collaborate with Douyin to launch a nine-hour daily "Showroom Joint Broadcast" to open up a "digital" release path.
Themed "Co-creating a New Nature," the event features dazzling debuts of various shows, including "Xintiandi Collection Release," "LABELHOOD Pioneer Fashion Release," "SIFS Fashion Specialty Release," and "KIDSWEAR Children's Clothing Release." LABELHOOD is a culture experience community that combines avant-garde fashion festivals and independent designer brand boutiques. It aims to connect individuals with the outside world, China with the world, promote individual aesthetic independence and cultural identity, and enjoy the democratized core of fashion. This is why such stunning and pure street art can be seen in such historic century-old buildings.
On the opening day of the exhibition, well-known rapper GALI, musician MARSIX Liu Jialiang, ethnic electronic musician Yideler, House of Milan's only Chinese community member Qingyang Kingyoung, knitwear designer brand Nan Knits designer Nan, famous drag queen Lian Longqing, and celebrity photographer Tong Meng from various creative fields attended the event, adding a dazzling touch to the opening of Shanghai Fashion Week.
CAIN Suirui Zhang, a cross-disciplinary tattoo artist who has held solo exhibitions in the field of Chinese underground culture, creates an aesthetic system full of visual impact and satire using only black, pioneering an avant-garde artistic style. Cain has not only accumulated a large number of customers and high popularity in the tattoo industry but has also made achievements in the fashion world. Many brands often seek his collaboration after becoming familiar with Cain's unique style. Cain has worked with brands, magazines, and photographers such as Adidas, Fred Perry, Vans, Chen Tianzhuo, and Weekend Pictorial.
This time, he collaborates with BLACKHEAD, an accessory brand founded in 2012, with multiple offline spaces in China, rooted in youth culture, and constantly challenging traditional social norms with bold and playful design language. Together, they present a new expression space in the 2023 LABELHOOD Pioneer Fashion & Art Festival's "LOFi Glitch Maps" aesthetic space, deconstructing youth culture in a historic building built in 1904, interpreting truth and self with a rebellious and avant-garde spirit. The most eye-catching exhibit this time is his art installation "APOCALYPSE" for BLACKHEAD, using a white wall as a canvas and rebellious declarations as tentacles to create an avant-garde hardcore handwritten graffiti font space.
Cross-disciplinary tattoo artist CAIN Surui Zhang & his art installation "APOCALYPSE"
