Academy of Art University's School of Fashion | Fall 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center | Fashion Show Coverage - Xiang Zhang

Academy of Art University's School of Fashion | Fall 2012 Collections | Xiang Zhang

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center

Xiang Zhang is from Shanghai, China, where he received a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from the Shanghai University of Engineering Science. He worked as a knitwear designer at Nova Apparel Taiwan and at Shaghai Datura Fashion Co. before earning his M.F.A. in Knitwear Design from the Academy of Art University. For the Spring 2011 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week show, he collaborated on a collection with fellow alumnus Louie Llewellyn. For his current collection, Xiang was inspired by Plato's philosophy that the highest form of beauty can be explained by principles of mathematics. He used Plato's theory of the golden rectangle, in which the ratio of the long edge to the short edge equals the golden ratio, to determine the proportions of designs, as well as the number of stitches and their orientation within the pattern.