The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2022 - Issue 31

bitecatwalk C+PLUS SERIES NEW YORK SS/22 FASHION WEEK T aiwan-born designer C.T.LIU switched his career from film to fashion design, graduating in Fashion Design at the Shin Chien University in Taipei. Shortly after, he founded his namesake label and won the overseas media reward as the Ten Most Successful Brand in Asia in 2013. The following year, he collected the Most Potential Asian Designer award at the Mercedes-Benz FashionWeek SS15 in Asia. C.T.LIU started his new journey as designer director of CHABER C+ in 2016 and was awarded the Best Innovation Design of Shanghai FashionWeek award the year after. CHABER C+ was a collaboration between C.T.LIU and CHABER that combined CHABER’s natural atmosphere style with LIU’s modern urban aesthetics. C+ explored the concept of simplicity without over-complicating, thus elaborating on the quality of each item. By subtracting the number of pieces, it added charm, which explained the ‘+’ in the brand name. After four seasons of work, LIU officially left CHABER, launching the brand-new season AW18 as the brand C+plus series. Besides carrying on with the pragmatism concept, C+ is upgraded with more lines and categories in detail.The brand goes with a contemporary woman’s fashion attitude, including unconventional beauty, graceful self-appreciation, and a minor violation of eternity, through the unorthodox way of cutting and using materials, deconstruction, and fabric development. http://cplus-series.com