London Design Silver

2026

Twilight Reverie

Entrant

Yaqi Zhan

Category

Fashion Design - Prêt-à-porter / Ready-made

Client's Name

Vame Studio

Country / Region

United States

Twilight Reverie begins at the threshold: the brief interval between day and night when light loses its certainty and form begins to negotiate with shadow. The collection studies this passage as a structural problem rather than an atmosphere: how a garment can hold its shape while admitting transparency, how tailoring can soften without losing precision, how a wardrobe can move between the public and the private without changing.



The collection is built on a series of deliberate tensions. A drapery trench in cream is rendered half in wool blend, half in chiffon — the architecture of a coat dissolving as it falls. Strapless silk maxi dresses carry painterly poppy florals that bleed across the bias, color behaving like fading light on fabric. Satin paneling cuts geometry into softness; pinstripe tailoring is reworked into a bralette and a boxy short, formality undone by proportion. A draped jersey top falls from a single point at the throat and opens at the back — covered and exposed in the same gesture.



A palette of cream, deep brown, charcoal, and obsidian black moves through the collection the way a room moves through evening. Wool, silk, satin, and chiffon are layered for weight and shadow rather than warmth. The result is a wardrobe for a woman in transition, between roles, between hours, between who she has been and whom she is becoming. Twilight Reverie is not about an ending. It is about the moment of suspension just before something new defines itself, when form is still negotiable, and the next version of a life has not yet announced its name.

https://yaqizhan.format.com/vame-lookbook
https://www.vamestudio.com/collections/twilight-reverie-d001
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