Congratulations Tian!

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IMG_0433 Susie Lau, Tian Wang - Womenswear & Overall winner

I've been holding onto this images since the ASOS Ltd 100 judging day and been ITCHING to post about the overall winner of the ASOS Ltd 100 competition.  So, one hundred pieces by London College of Fashion students were selected to go on sale on 3rd July on ASOS with all profits going back to the students, but there's also an overall winner, menswear and womenswear winner who each get design placements at ASOS.  Last night was the unveilling of ASOS Ltd 100 and awards party and I presented the womenswear winner and eventual overall winner with her 'thread spool' wreath…

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The first piece that caught my eye as soon as I started scanning the rails in the judging room was Tian's jacket…. her beautiful digital printing had an almost hypnotic effect that stayed with me throughout the judging session.  It was like escaping into another world when looking at them and upon close inspection, you can see the manipulations of landscape photographs that Tian had done, the sort of visions you'd get if you scrunched up your eyes in the sun.  In addition, she also has an appreciation for shape which is rare when dealing with such a print focused collection… 

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As the judges had some deliberations, we asked Tian to bring a few more of her pieces in and fortunately I got to discover more of her work than just the solitary piece… these aren't going into the ASOS Ltd 100 collection but it does make me excited to find out more about her work especially since I found out she actually has just picked up a London stockists (will find out deets later…). 

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These sky print trousers are going to be going online along with the jacket (all I know is that the jacket is priced at ¬£200…).  I'll be posting more of the ASOS Ltd 100 pieces as there's tons of pieces which I'm excited about and maybe some of you can be prepared to get click happy on 3rd July (last year, all 100 pieces were snapped up in two minutes flat…) but this post is just for Tian for making pieces that make the eyes go all saucer-shaped… 

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39 comments

  2. That jacket is incredible! That’s great that she focused as much on the design as the fabric pattern. Well deserved!

  10. apologies if it’s very obviously stated anywhere, but what is the girl’s full name/website? my love for these pieces know no limits. everybody is doing this type of prints now (alexander mcqueen, christopher kane and many more bright young thing), but these are so well executed it hurts…

  12. the winners get placements at ASOS? doing what? learning how bad their careers would have turned out if they had actually been toss at what they do??? It’s more of an embarrassment on your design CV really…’what’s this? ASOS?’…’Oh…i’m not sure…a typographical error perhaps…’ Can they not just say shove your placement and take the ¬£200…? All this print is exhausting now…I can’t pass judgement on Tian (that would be unfair at this stage), but London designers who have sponsorship and are seeking accounts…i mean, fucking hell! Put in the work first? Take a leaf from jean-pierre’s book…design something fucking good, before sticking print on it…as nobody wants to buy the look of an Aston Martin, with a Citroen engine!!!!

  13. Moi: Once again…violent words there… I would counter your point about the ASOS placement… the fact of the matter is that not every single fashion graduate (and the UK does churn out A LOT of them…) is going to make it on their own, work for a big design house, be a designer or scrap that, even work in fashion. It’s ONE opportunity that whilst may not be to your tastes is better than having zero on your CV… those multitude of tiers and levels are necessary in fashion and frankly not everyone can be a Jean Pierre Braganza or even remotely close…
    As for print saturation…I do feel there is a lot of it about… but if that’s a student’s niche so be it… there are piss poor prints about that have come about through jumping in the bandwagon but it’s my personal opinion that Tian’s aren’t that sort of dross…
    Furthermore, I believe that this kind of competition only serves to enrichen the very small number of comps, internship comps, fund/support opps that are out there… think of how tight it is to get to comps like Hyeres and ITS and how you’re competing with all the schools in Europe/Japan/USA…
    It’s an utter dog fight…even for a so-called lowly ASOS competition….

  17. i agree with fashionista, it reminds a lot of a more structured and colourful josh goot but all in all, very nice pieces.

  19. i love love looooove that print! I’ve been like, obsessed with sky/star/nebulla-ish patterns lately and that jacket is AMAZING =]

  21. These remind me of Christopher Kane’s 2010 resort collection, but she’s certainly got her own thing going on image wise. These are really exciting, thanks for sharing!

  22. omgomgomgomgomgomg
    it’s so beautiful!! i especially love the first jacket; so beautiful!! wow, i just repeated myself LOL
    anyway, this girl is soooooo talented, she’s amazing and obviously very creative!
    but i’d really like to see how to work such an gorgeous piece – it’d be so hard to match with, because it’s so lovely!
    i’m so glad you could post about her, she’s awesome!

  23. not remotely violent words susie, simply painting a very realistic picture…i could be far more critical of this and circumstances in London. The facts are everyone (mainly the media) drums Londons banjo, yet the designers continually struggle? they rely upon government grant schemes & NewGen support, or rather that support is given to continually failing lines or lines that have zero correlation to a commercial market. Where is the financial viability and sustainability in that? I for one would welcome London being reduced to 3 days, as quite frankly, it needn’t be any longer. 2/3 Appointments is sufficient and most show in Paris anyway! Maybe the incompetent powers that be (not naming names) may roll and people with creative strategies can rectify an absolutely massive chasm that exists between design and success. Instead of labeling me violent when I put forward a structured opposition that has evidence to support such an inquest, look further down the line…i mean firstly, we have a graduate winner from LCF going to ASOS? No disrespect to ASOS here, as a retail institution their success is unparalleled, as a design concept though? Don’t patronise myself or your readers with continually positive spin, there’s this notion within the British media to build up and knock down, no matter what the sector. You’re in an influential position with what you do…you really do have a duty to communicate the realities of the market, which at present, are incredibly dismal. Not solely because of the financial climate, but because of a restricted institution that unwittingly handicaps our own markets prodigies…You’ve basically just attacked me for offering up an alternative viewpoint, which was the initial motive behind blogs? stimulating and communicating opinions…

  24. I take back the word violent…perhaps your words in the past comments have verged on that and that’s having read your comments too on DD…
    I retract that…
    I did not attack your point but wanted to counter it, I could just not reply at all which would sort of defeat the point of rapport between blogger and commentors….
    I think talking about reducing LFW is a WHOLE other issue…. there’s a tangent here that is different kettle of fish altogether….
    I’m not positvely ‘spinning’ anything…I wouldn’t have gotten involved if I truly didn’t believe in it….I’m not clever or smart enough to spin anything…I’m just the naive chick that genuinely thinks this scheme is no bad thing… how am I patronising the reader…. I’m probably in fact patronising myself!
    I don’t like to be embued with responsibilities blah blah…I’ve never EVER set out to be an informant with the blog… it is but ONE opinion that counts amongst many…. like you said, you’ve offered one opinion which could easily be influential and with sufficient proof and reason behind it… but I as merely countering your point about ASOS being a blot on someone’s CV when so many are jobless, struggling, working in bars having come out with a fashion degree, disillusioned with visions of becoming a famous designer in their own right or LVMH snapping them up straight away…
    With your last comment, you seem to have strayed from that and gone onto a whole other subject… you point out some excellent points about lack of support etc… which is what I was saying in my counter point, that there ARE so few opportunities so where is the harm in ASOS providing another one, albeit a smaller one in scale and scope… my ultimate point is that it’s not to be sniffed at when LIKE YOU SAID, so many are struggling…
    I actualy genuinely enjoy your comments though… riles me up… and we can agree to disagree though I feel like through these three comments, we’re actually agreeing with a lot of things (?) (do we know each in person by the by…I feel like we might do…?) Might be best to carry this convo not on this comment strand when the point of the post is to highlight Tian’s work, not to discuss the state of London’s fashion industry.
    Now I’m off to find some fresh broad beans…

  28. Wow, first jacket and the sky pants are to die for, so amazing, do keep us updated on stockists, I´m never lucky enough to get in within 2 mins..

  29. A lot of designers are using prints right now in their collection. I really like it! I was wondering if it would be possible to make something like that yourself? Sometimes you can print your photo on a T-shirt, but would it be possible to print your own photo on a piece of fabric (without spending a huge amount of money I mean)?

  36. i saw her collection of clothes at the Joyce boutique in hk the other day.
    caught my attention

  38. i think it’s cute how her prints are similar to her chinese name “heaven”!

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