UMA WANG FALL/WINTER 2025

Clothing is our chosen external shell. The shapes of items we wear enhance, conceal, define, redesign how we look. Throughout history and cultures, the appearances the clothed body takes on constantly change, but poignant synchronicities can be found across moments in time and places in history. Consonances between ways of dressing entirely alien one to the other remind us that clothing expresses ideals which are embedded in humankind, whatever the latitude, the longitude, the altitude. Whatever the era, the moment, the eon.

Details of Uma Wang Fall/Winter 2025, Nipping the waist, inflating the hips or the back, elongating the whole body, enlarging or reducing the shoulders, tying a bow happen now, happened in the past, and will happen in the future. These actions are at the core of this collection. The thought process originated in Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del parto, in the well-wishing symbolism of the proudly protruding pregnant belly, and evolved in a cross-historical study on femininity through sculptural volume, gracious fluidity, abstraction and poise, relying on fabrics that have both weight and lightness, and exploring an expansion of earthy neutrals ending up in black. A silhouette ensues that’s essentially a gracious way to carry oneself.

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