The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2022 - Issue 31

bitecatwalk J amie Wei Huang is a contemporary lux- ury womenswear label. Her SS22 collec- tion, ‘I Have Broken A Piece Of Me’, ex- plores the depths of the spirit and body and the silver lining between our strength and fragility. The collection began with a story of a physical accident with countless ultrasounds, MRIs, and images from inside the body pro- jected on a screen. It featured a range of t-shirts with MRI, body scan, bone and thermometer images in colours ranging from classic white and black to green and royal blue. Overlap skirts, loose shirt dress- es, body-hugging knit dresses, and hand-em- broidered cardigans came down the catwalk. “From flesh to spirits, we are trapped in a form subjectively designed by ourselves to match the expectations of this world. We appear in a shape that was planned, calculated, and controlled. We then break off the parts that do not match,” the designer revealed. www.jamieweihuang.com JAMIE WEI HUANG EFTYCHIA L ondon-based Eftychia Karamolegkou's ‘Hap- piness Gone Wrong’ collection focused on the unprecedented of living and designing in a pandemic. Her previous collection for working women was inspired by an air- port departure gate packed with female business travellers, with hybrid patterns of remote work- ing and a disbanded uniformed city-appropriate dress code. "The pandemic was horrible, yes, but in a way, it freed me to get out of my boxes and stop thinking about business wear," the designer said at a preview in her studio. "I'm always de- signing from what I'm wearing myself and observing how oth- ers dress. I noticed on the days women started coming back into the office; they were wearing whatever they felt like.” Eftychia‘s subtle transition up- graded her habitual working-at- home uniform of band t-shirts and pareos. She used mens- wear tailoring fabrics from Brit- ish mills to cut skirts and dress- es with a deep u-shaped slash to reveal one leg and turned signature ‘grandpa' trousers into Bermuda shorts. At the same time, the band t-shirts trans- formed into long-sleeve cotton tees fronted with embroideries. The casual pantsuits and fringed leather trousers had simple lines and decorative fraying in the seams. Whilst the designer is dressing for the same audi- ence, women’s priorities and longings have changed as they look forward to the summer, per- haps with a long-awaited hol- iday. "During the lockdowns, I was dreaming of Ibiza," Eftychia admitted. We think we were all dreaming of something erotic during that time. http://eftychia.co FASHION WEEK LONDON Spring/Summer 2022 FASHION WEEK LONDON Spring/Summer 2022