CONNECTIONSy

Black Sheep

https://www.instagram.com/connectionsy

Location

milan / italy

University

domus academy, milan, italy

Graduation year

2015

Contact

Fashion / Travel / Art
Brand Bio: CONNECTIONSy was founded in Milan in 2016 and means “Recording Journey with Fashion”. Designer Shang Yang integrated his travel footprint into the aesthetic appeal. With his iconic abstract print, the arc-cutting, comfortable silhouette gives it a unique style of “Elegant-Street”. The brand explores the relationship between contemporary people, art, and travel, and vocalizes young women of the Z-Generation.

DesignerBio: CONNECTIONSy creative director SHANG YANG, graduated from the Shanghai “Donghua University”, Fashion design degree program. Shang’s graduate collection was awarded the runner-up honor in the same year he won the “Student Innovation in World Of Wearable Arts Award”. Shang’s experience working with some notable fashion brands helped cultivate his design skill and develop his individual style. In 2015 Shang completed his master's degree at “Domus Academy” in Milan Italy. During the school collaboration with certain Italian fashion labels, such as Avaro Figlio, Trussardi, Frankie Morello.. In January 2016, Shang founded CONNECTIONSy MILANO. His first collection “Chelsea Fantsy S/S 2017” selected by the international emerging designer platform "NOT JUST A LABEL" as "BLACK SHEEP." April 2017 during Shanghai Fashion Week, the brand successfully held its “Fluid Geometry” F/W 2017 fashion show in Xintiandi. Shang works on the success of the publication in VOGUE (Italy), Schon(UK), SOLIS(New York), Marie Claire (China)and PROMO, PUMP, ELEGANT and other fashion magazines. At the end of 2017, CONNECTIONSy was nominated for the Short-List of the French fashion context "OpenMyMed Prize 2018" with his S/S 2018 collection "Aurora Girls". Meanwhile,he was selected as "VOGUE TALENTS 2017" by Vogue Italia.

Latest Collection

Fall Winter 2018 No Entry

CONNECTIONSy F/W 2018 FOOTPRINT

Designer Shang Yang uncovers the hidden beauty of a world lost in ideas. CONNECTIONSy’s fall / winter 2018 collection pays homage to the great city of Berlin. A vast metropolis on the verge of yet another evolution.

Berlin’s colorful history is polarized by liberty and constraint. The perfect juxtaposition of the human condition. Ever reminding us of what comes with too much independence and too much mechanism. No other monument in the world boast a greater symbol of this complex divide than the Berlin wall.

Once the most notorious city in the world, Berlin attracted people from every corner of the globe. Now millions flock to the city for a glimpse at the graffiti littered murals decorating the great divide. The remnants of the wall are a grand reflection of the modern-day conscience in political polarization.

CONNECTIONSy’s, 2018 F/W collection, explores the boundaries of the consciousness in today’s society. Clothing can act like a loud voice in silent protest. Shang looks to exploit this concept with anti-war sentiment. The fall / winter 2018 collection Titled “No Entry” pushes the audience to explore the confines’ of their own psyche.
When a people are restricted the idea of freedom is like a dream.

Whole and euphoric. We envision incredible things beyond the walls of our imagination. Believing what we cannot see must be greater than the reality that lives behind us. Imagination gives us the strength to change the world. It allows us to think beyond possibility.

“No Entry” is about dreaming beyond the impossible. The feeling of total freedom in a mechanic reality. Shang creates this world through color, texture, and imaginative silhouettes. Iconographic print and intricate detail take on a new and subtle language of their own. This collection is about style that speaks to what we believe in.