Sophie Hong Spring/ Summer 2024.
We spend so much time immersed in the worlds of art and fashion that we take for granted the skill required of those who exist in both. Sophie Hong is one of those rare few who excels as not only a designer, but as an artist. Her works are as loved on the body as they are draped on the walls of her global exhibitions. Just as the prolific Chinese painter Chang Dai-Chien was extolled for his grasp of “from heart to hand,” so too does Sophie Hong render her own passion and sophistication in cloth.
The flow, the shapes, the grasp of color… No one else works with textile quite the way Sophie Hong does. While we are particularly attracted to Sophie Hong’s shirting (and have sought it out for over two decades), we also find a particular ease within her dresses, pants and scarves. Her use of material is a feast for the senses: Raw, shibori-dyed silk, gauzy mousseline, guangdong mud silks and seed pearls stitched at the collar… You need little to dress up a Sophie Hong piece – it’s already perfect on its own.
