8ON8 SS20 Backstage!
by Laura Durechova
Take a look at 8ON8 Spring/Summer 2020 backstage, photographed by Elliott Morgan during London Fashion Week Men’s, in exclusive for Fucking Young!
Originating in 2012, the GQ CHINA PRESENTS project aims to showcase trendsetting Chinese designers. This year Li Gong’s 8ON8 brand invokes an episode of the British dark sci-fi series, Black Mirror, with a post-death idealistic fantasy. The episode, ‘San Junipero,’ which lends its name to the collection, explores the memory of two dying women who are able to live and love in an alternate virtual universe set through a time warp of the 1980s, in all its youthful exuberance.
A palette of shimmering rose tint and fawn tailored suits open the show, reflecting the sweet nostalgia of our women’s journey. In a show presented by GQ, we see a playful reimagining of menswear tailoring, challenging the relevance of that acronym’s origin. A holographic trench glows like oil in a puddle, while chainmail vests sway across bare chests. Satin du-rags sit atop boxy classics cast in silky drapes. 8ON8 executes suits, coats, macs, shirts, abbreviated shorts, and a bomber with an exaggerated circle pull as exquisite pajamas.
Non-conformity and realizing unfulfilled potential are key takeaways from 8ON8’s SS20 collection. The post-death world is a place to live freely by your truth, and the troop of androgynous models display a collection that flirts with traditional boundaries of gender and authority. Cheekbones are cut with silver as the boys file down the runway, satin bouffant prom dresses slung as capes and glittering chain-link body ornamentation draped over the crotch area, teasing compliance and disposing of bounded masculinity. Living for the party is a crucial feature of Li Gong’s virtual world: thrashed, grafitti’d band tees are strewn over backs and the designer bows out to The Pointer Sisters’ hit ‘I’m So Excited’.
8ON8 SS20 collection embraces the freedom and energy of the television show’s post-mortem simulation. Must we die to relish this fantasy? With his latest collection, Gong approaches the question with positivity and immediacy – we shouldn’t wait to live the life we want.
Review by Laura Durechova and Samuel Jacobson for Fucking Young!.
Edward Crutchley Spring/Summer 2020
Charles Jeffrey Loverboy Spring/Summer 2020
The collaboration between JW Anderson and film director Luca Guadagnino does not produce a garment or a bag. Instead, it creates an object for a desk: a set of bronze peach paperweights.
Burberry has released a new capsule collection to celebrate the 2026 Year of the Horse.
Barcelona’s Moco Museum opened a new Banksy exhibition! Titled New Works by Banksy, the show presents twenty-five original pieces. Some of these works have never been shown in a museum before.
Aún es pronto para ser feliz isn’t looking for answers. It sits in the discomfort, embracing the idea that maybe, right now, not being okay is part of the process.
A second project from Carhartt WIP and Salomon reworks the X-ALP shoe.
The Spring/Summer 2026 collection from Hikari no Yami is called CHAPTER 9: THE INVISIBLE MAN.
Louis Vuitton says it looks forward to a creative and innovative path with Future, celebrating this new partnership and what it may bring.
ROMBAUT and PUMA held a launch event for Season 2 of their collaboration in Shanghai.
The Carhartt WIP preview for Spring/Summer 2026 focuses on the shift from cold to warm weather.
JW ANDERSON has opened a new store on London’s Pimlico Road, an area known for its antique and design shops.
Marnix Eyckmans photographed by Aitana Valencia and styled by Ana San José with SS26 pieces from Dior Men, for the DREAMCORE issue of Fucking Young! magazine.
PUMA and the British fashion brand Represent have unveiled their second collaborative shoe.
Eyewear brand Vooglam has teamed up with streetwear label Tombogo for its first limited-edition collaboration.
OUR LEGACY WORK SHOP and ROA have released a new capsule collection. This marks their fourth and most extensive collaboration to date.
Madrid is preparing to welcome one of the most powerful emerging voices on the indie scene: Sombr, the young New York artist who has turned his raw sensitivity and generational vision into a global phenomenon.
Chino Amobi’s new project, “Eroica II: Christian Nihilism”, marks a striking and deeply personal return from an artist known for expanding the edges of sound, image, and storytelling.
The work is part of the brand’s ongoing research into biomimicry, material science, and textile technology.
Arts of the Earth at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is an ambitious exhibition on humanity’s shifting relationship with our planet, soil, and biodiversity.
We talk to Callum Eaton about tension, humour and the objects that inspire his new exhibition.
Denim Tears has launched its own proprietary line of denim, titled DENIM TEARS DENIM BY DENIM TEARS.
Inspired by the folklore and spirit of flamenco, the collection captures the movement and emotion of the dance through silhouettes, contrasts, and details.
ALAINPAUL has created the costumes for a new ballet, Drift Wood, at the Opéra national de Paris.
MODUS VIVENDI presents its Fall-Winter Black and White edition, a collection that drifts in from a retro art universe and lands right inside the pulse of modern urban life. The vibe is graphic, fluid and inclusive, as… »
We put together this last-minute holiday gift guide built around the things we actually love to give (and receive).
Jack Archer photographed and styled by Julian Freyberg, in exclusive for Fucking Young! Online.
Ten pieces that say: You tried to erase us. Here we are anyway. And we’re making clothes loud enough to wake the whole city.
There’s a quiet light that runs through Óscar Casas’ work, an energy that feels both instinctive and deliberate, like someone who has learned to move between dream and reality with ease.
Heron Preston has officially relaunched his namesake fashion label.
Bosco travels with an analog camera not just to document places, but to understand them.
Casablanca presents its Resort 2026 campaign, shifting its focus to Los Angeles.
