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Market Trench @ Pawnstar

Market Trench is a project by Luke Cardew, all-round creative, maker, designer and founder of Shanghai-based boutique firm LCDC. Luke models one above. These are made from one of the most recognizable materials – or really patterns – in China today. These are the famous red, white, and blue bags that contain all of the possessions migrant workers might need for their years of life building the fast-growing cities of China or working in a factory. In Chinese, they are referred to as either “woven bags” (编织袋) or “snakeskin bags” (蛇皮袋) though the material is plastic.

The red, white, and blue bags of migrant laborers symbolize the process of China’s rapid urban development as the corrugated blue sheets that used to keep passersby out of construction sites. My old friend gallerist Tally Beck used to have a piece of artwork inspired by the blue sheets in his Beijing apartment and my new friend Luke Cardew has created the Market Trench, inspired by the bags of the migrant laborers.

Pawnstar will welcome December with a Market Trench activation at our store (Xiangyang North Road 34), this Saturday, Dec. 1, at 9:00pm. Wines are sponsored by Jacob’s Creek.

Click below and scroll past all of the fashion photos to read Luke’s own statement about the Market Trench.

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Ian Slade in Los Angeles

Ian Slade is now in Los Angeles after an illustrious career in Shanghai that included modeling and live-streaming for Pawnstar, among other memorable pursuits.

Above, he is wearing Stubbs and Wootton leopard print loafers acquired at Pawnstar.

 

You can see a city and a man celebrating the ’80s, perhaps on repeat in these photos.  Of course it’s easy to see why people might miss the ’80s. It was an exuberant if superficial time. Also, a lot of people who have spending power now were growing up then.

I suppose one’s ability to partake in various nostalgias has a good deal to do with age, although there’s also a sense in which people may relate to the aesthetic values of a certain period. A lot of people get stuck in a certain period too.

Nostalgia for the ’90s has already started. I find the ’80s more compelling than the ’90s and it seems so does Ian Slade.

Playboy branded polo shirts.

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Thierry Chow: Fashion and Fengshui

Thierry Chow, Fengshui and Fashion master from Hong Kong, was at Pawnstar yesterday. The author of a book called “love and Fate 愛情玄學指南”, she has been covered in quite a few media including South China Morning Post and The Hula,

From this SCMP article, here is some valuable advice:

“For those who are born in the Year of the Dog, Sheep, Ox, Dragon, Monkey or Rooster, it is good to buy a yellow or pink wallet for good fortune. As they will have an unstable year in general, these colours will help to minimise the bad energy.

For those who are [born in the] Year of the Rabbit, Horse or Tiger, they can buy a brown and/or pink wallet. They will have quite a good year overall.”

 

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Traffique Shanghai Event w/ Pawnstar

The Traffique Shanghai launch celebrates the re-emergence of China’s most cosmopolitan megalopolis as a major style influence on global fashion, often by way of its street style. There could be no better location for such a launch than the designer resale and vintage platform Pawnstar, with its seven story shop in the middle of the French Concession on Fuxing and Fenyang Roads.

Based in Spain, Traffique is a street style and ecommerce website, that allows customers to purchase that they see worn by the most edgy, stylish people of cities like London, Paris, Tokyo and now Shanghai. Photographer Jose Maria will be at the shop to catalogue the looks and do mini-interviews of his subjects.

Stylites was of course there at the start of street fashion photography in China – maybe it was the start in terms of blogs in this area – and is very pleased to see that the subject remains a very interesting one.