Hong Kong has transformed itself from a textile manufacturing hub to a design incubation platform in the global design stage. The fashion industry, in particular, permeates all aspects of other design disciplines. It is not only about creating beautiful garments but also exploring new materials, techniques, concepts, and directions, including sustainable development. The compact and multi-layered nature of Hong Kong provided a unique environment for the city to be a testing ground that nurtured and afforded opportunities for designers of all disciplines to experiment, innovate, and create. This exhibition reflects the city’s cultural and socio-economic changes through the lens of the fashion industry and invites the audience to observe the changing design landscape of fashion trends and impacts.

Fashion is a powerful form of self-expression, and it has always been designed to reflect individuals’ inner identities, beliefs, and representations and connections to their world. Needless to say, clothes are also meant to be worn, felt, and seen, and many consider them as their second skin and how much pleasure people derive from their materiality: the sensual pleasure and the physical experience of wearing them. However, many kinds of fashion pleasure exist beyond garment-making, and now, more than ever, its definition is expanding, and designers are changing the way we think about fashion. This exhibition, titled: The Full Gamut, examines the inter-connectedness across various design disciplines from different perspectives, unveiling an array of relationships between designers from different backgrounds throughout the creation of this expanded definition of fashion.

Venue address: East Wing, 2/F, 822 Lai Chi Kok Road