Good morning everyone,

Once again, a pretty niche Fem Fri for you, because this week I found out about the 1930s Shanghai girl's magazine Linglong. It sounds very cool - the whole article is worth a click - and a fashion designer is doing a collection based on the fashions in it. Note the pocket square in the vintage photograph <3

While Janny looked through the digitised archives of Linglong, she noticed many themes in the submissions could have been published now, instead of 90 years ago; particularly when it came to the images women readers submitted of themselves wearing garments more typically worn by men. These photos were thought of as subversive for the time, and were the starting point for Janny’s work on her new collection Cardinal – a range of 11 outfits designed for S/S 2023, based on her research into Linglong’s archives and other fashion references of that era.

https://gal-dem.com/seventyfive-janny-ye-linglong-chinese-fashion/

You can see more about the magazine, with more cool images, in Columbia's collection:

https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/linglong/collection

Love,

Alex.