The 5 best shows of Shanghai Fashion Week SS24 This year, China Fashion Week went viral all over social media

Despite being in the age of digital connectedness, for many Europeans China is a distant and indistinct world, especially when it comes to fashion. Nevertheless, the mere fact that some of the world's best fabrics (especially silk, but really everything) come from China itself can give us a measure of how vibrant the national fashion scene is - and how much it is ignored by the entire West, which, however, in doing so, misses out on shows and collections that are simply superlative, and often superior to those seen in Milan or Paris. This year, the edition of Shanghai Fashion Week held last week had a decidedly new resonance, and renewed attention turned toward the Chinese runways.

So here are the top 5 shows of Shanghai Fashion Week SS24.

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Le Fame is a brand born in 2015 on the back of the somewhat baroque romanticism that blossomed in the wake of Alessandro Michele. Over the years, the brand has developed a voice of its own, and for SS24 it presented an incredibly measured collection, bringing to the runway a series of precious baroque mermaids in dresses made entirely of pearls, with the fabric imitating sea foam, satin shells crowning the corsets, and a seafaring bon-ton charm that fully restores that sophistication of the Shanghai lifestyle that the brand wants to communicate.