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\n\tZane Li\u2019s sophomore men\u2019s collection, as the Daily Mail would like to put it, is all about putting on a very leggy display. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe New York-based, FIT-trained Chinese designer said the styling choice is aimed at evoking the status of half-ready.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cMaybe they woke up too late and everything is in the laundry or too wrinkly, so you throw on a nice coat over gym shorts and flip-flops, and you\u2019re at least ready to get a coffee. There is something chic about that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe legs might be bare, but Li balanced the looks with eye-catching outerwear, with standouts including sheer trenches in breathable nylon, squared ponchos, and mac coats in aqua, pink and blue.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cFor menswear, outerwear is the most important expression of style. You can wear literally anything \u2014 a T-shirt, sweat shorts, maybe nothing \u2014 and it\u2019s enough if you have a nice trenchcoat or bomber. That\u2019s the ease of menswear that can be quite liberating when you try less to make more out of it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\n\tInspiration wise, Li said spring 2026 was about muting the aggression that\u2019s associated with uniforms of all sorts, and giving these different archetypes of menswear a gentle, softer spin.<\/p>\n
\n\tBy changing the texture and proportion, Li was able to reimagine garments as power projections as modern, playful fashion statements.<\/p>\n
\n\tA Mao suit came with a flare in the front. A cropped Harrington jacket was paired with a sweatshirt with a wide, dropped waistband. Other fun offerings included a leotard-cum-T-shirt, and a two-in-one tank top\/T-shirt hybrid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zane Li\u2019s sophomore men\u2019s collection, as the Daily Mail would like to put it, is all about putting on a very leggy display. The New York-based, FIT-trained Chinese designer said the styling choice is aimed at evoking the status of half-ready. \u201cMaybe they woke up too late and everything is in the laundry or too wrinkly, so you throw on a nice coat over gym shorts and flip-flops, and you\u2019re at least ready to get a coffee. There is something chic about that,\u201d he said. The legs might be bare, but Li balanced the looks with eye-catching outerwear, with standouts including sheer trenches in breathable nylon, squared ponchos, and mac coats in aqua, pink and blue. \u201cFor menswear, outerwear is the most important expression of style. You can wear literally anything \u2014 a T-shirt, sweat shorts, maybe nothing \u2014 and it\u2019s enough if you have a nice trenchcoat or bomber. That\u2019s the ease of menswear that can be quite liberating when you try less to make more out of it,\u201d he added. Inspiration wise, Li said spring 2026 was about muting the aggression that\u2019s associated with uniforms of all sorts, and giving these different archetypes of menswear a gentle, softer spin. By changing the texture and proportion, Li was able to reimagine garments as power projections as modern, playful fashion statements. A Mao suit came with a flare in the front. A cropped Harrington jacket was paired with a sweatshirt with a wide, dropped waistband. Other fun offerings included a leotard-cum-T-shirt, and a two-in-one tank top\/T-shirt hybrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}