Tang jackets and vests reinterpreted for an artful outfit.
Gao Ludi ‘s take on Shanghai Tang glows under the sun in neon hues.

For Spring 2023, Shanghai Tang and Chinese artist Gao Lu di jointly launched the "SHEEN" collaboration series, presenting unique clothing and home products. The word "fresh" in the traditional Chinese context refers to the freshness of food, while the English word "SHEEN", is like the Chinese pronunciation, a visual concept, specifically referring to the luminous color.

The design elements perfectly replicate the sense of construction, art and craftsmanship bringing a fresh new take to Shanghai Tang and yearning to Make Life A Party.

What draws the boundary between Art and Fashion?

We invited Fine Artist Gao Ludi to reinterpret Shanghai Tang with a unisex limited capsule collection.

Bringing the artist’s bold use of colour from his paintings, Gao Ludi created a series of intricately hand-crafted vests and jackets inspired by industrial protective garments accentuated with reflective material within the innovative design. The ropes create hidden light waves within the garment itself and a finishing Oriental touch is expressed through the matching frog buttons and the contrasting colour edging.

The "Fresh SHEEN" collection took inspiration from senses of taste and smell in the use of colours. Gao Ludi incorporates the "freshness" from nature, giving tableware a light color scheme and abstract water and grass imagery to provide a safe place for food.

In addition, the Chinese character of the word "fresh" can be broken down into two Chinese characters, each meaning "fish" and "sheep". The "sheep" character in the center of the plate expresses the idea of "always full", while on rice jars, it signifies happiness, hope and fulfilment.

For the home fragrance diffuser, Gao Ludi created a series of abstract mushroom umbrella tops, which were used as the main visual element on the bottles in different sizes.

The confrontation of the two symbolic concepts of “fresh” and “danger” gives birth to a unique sensory association, making life interesting and continuing the artist's creative lineage of color and form collision.