Why Chinese designer Xander Zhou was destined for a career in fashion
The Beijing-based creative insists he’d still be in fashion even if mankind dispensed with clothes
Tell us about your latest autumn/winter collection for your eponymous men’s label. “The collection is essentially a sequel to the last season. Uniforms and workwear reappear in similar silhouettes but remade with fabrics and details of traditional kung fu suits.”
If you couldn’t be a fashion designer, what job would you do? “I am afraid I wouldn’t be good at anything else [...] Even if in a distant future the human race no longer requires clothing, I would still rather reinvent myself as a fashion designer of some sort than anything else.”
Who are your favourite artists? “Cai Guoqiang, Cao Fei, Simon Denny and Carlos Motta, to name a few. It is difficult to express why exactly I like an artist. I think what they have in common is that they all have a unique way of expressing something that is distinctly individualistic, something that is unmistakably theirs. Seeing works of art by such artists helps me to see the world more clearly, and inspires me greatly.”
