Sandy Liang’s contemporary ballet dancers FW24

The Chinese-American designer celebrates her tenth anniversary with the idea of ‘growing up a little without sacrificing what you love’. Based on this aspirational mantra, she structures her new chapter inspired by the hyper-femininity and stylistic sophistication of the contemporary woman.

Although bows continue to embellish some of her pieces as a representative element of her archive, Sandy Liang’s autumn-winter 2024 collection turns off her colour palette, to leave some hints of light with touches of pale pink in sharper and less volatile garments than in her previous episodes.

This evolution from childhood to adulthood, but with nostalgia for times gone by, becomes a constant that is reflected on the catwalk through designs that evoke memories of youth, the ballet or schoolgirl spirit. All of this is reinterpreted in new forms, in tracksuits with multi-dimensional rosettes, jackets with dangling bows or in his selection of outerwear with stars that form constellations.

References to ballerinas also materialise in other outstanding designs, such as high boots with bows on the toe. From this more feminine and adolescent spectrum, the range evolves towards a more adult one, inspired by the officecore, by maturity, with office and/or tailored garments made in corduroy, satin, mohair or donegal tweed, such as skirt suits and trouser suits.

“In the uniform there is fantasy and in nostalgia, presence“, say Liang’s notes, referring to this new era in which she enters to present the archetype of the New York woman of high society, who somehow takes refuge in nostalgia, and in this spirit of forever young, of teenage fantasy.