Space Eucharist

Bad Binch TongTong ss/25

There are a countless number of amazing fashion shows. Within those shows, there are those that will shock you, those that will comfort you. Those that will make you laugh, and those that will make you cry. There will be those that are graceful, and those that are chaotic. But there are very few shows that will change your life.

I ended up watching this show during my break on one of my longer school days, in the library. On any normal day, I would be working on the same things my peers in the cubicles around me were; putting together the elements of adverse possession, analyzing duty of care. I felt sort of insecure about taking up a desk in a law library just to watch a fashion show. But however I had felt when I entered that library was fundamentally different from how I left. It reached inside and touched me, somehow. It pulled out a sort of desire or self-actualization that hadn’t yet occurred to me. Set in the iconic St. Bartholomew’s church, I felt like I truly was in a church—a church of wonder bestowing me with blessings of beauty.

Surrounded by holy stone and stained glass, Terrence Zhou tells us a tale of arrival. The arrival of a new age, one we do not know yet somehow understand. Sheer, flowing fabrics orbit their wearers on a windy altar, transforming and manipulating their shapes as they move. Models dance around one another, sometimes never touching and yet moving with an intimacy like they do. The prospect of a new age, one so rapidly different from our own, may be terrifying. But we find comfort in the fact that soft rain still brings flowers to bloom.