Who started it? Stylist-turned-designer Ashburn Eng created young&restless just over a year ago, after years of dolling out advice to designers on how to amplify their looks with a cut here and a dash of colour there. Eng says he wants his avant-garde, ready-to-wear clothes to deliver a strong feminist statement. Anthems of female solidarity, ranging from Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun to Beyonce's Run The World, inspired Eng's latest collection for the "free-spirited, confident and unpretentious woman, who is sophisticated yet bold enough to daydream".
Why we love it: according to the website, it's "underground luxury with distinctive urban aesthetics", but we love the geometry of it. It's a return to the "Japonaiserie" movement of the 1980s, with inventive shapes and monochrome tones, only with a looser and lighter silhouette, using sheer, silk chiffon and modal jersey in black, white, stone grey and metallic shades.
"I was mainly inspired by the fusion of good and evil spiritual forces," says Eng. "This collection illustrates an extension of my interest in spiritual and austere elements, [as] evident in the monastic looks."
Young&restless was the only Asian label to present a collection at the 30th edition of Modefabriek's Next and Cutting Edge show in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in January.
What we'd pick: for the bold and the dutiful, the suit dress (left; HK$2,280), with its conservative facade but edgy cut, does the trick. The trapezoid top (HK$1,199) and high-waisted jeans with handkerchief drape (both above; HK$1,559) hit all the right angles.
Where can you get it? Young&restless is available at www.young-and-restless.com.
Published in Post mag on Oct 02, 2011
By P.Ramakrishnan
(ramakrishnanp@hotmail.com)
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