STREET FASHION - CHINA

By Eva Fydrych

Photos by Patrick Wack

Sixth series of pictures taken by a Shanghai-based photographer Patrick Wack. The photos were created over the last couple of years and feature street trends not only in main fashion centres like Shanghai or Beijing, but also some smaller Chinese cities. Featured in this series: WINTER COATS.

For more information about the photographer, please visit his official website: Patrick Wack.

STREET FASHION - CHINA

By Eva Fydrych
Photos by Patrick Wack

Fifth series of pictures taken by a Shanghai-based photographer Patrick Wack. Featured in this series: STYLISH COUPLES. For more information about the photographer, please visit his official website: Patrick Wack.

STREET FASHION - CHINA

By Eva Fydrych
Photos by Patrick Wack

Forth series of pictures taken by a Shanghai-based photographer Patrick Wack. Featured in this series: SKIRTS & DRESSES - AUTUMN LOOK.

For more information about the photographer, please visit his official website: Patrick Wack.

All photos by Patrick Wack

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Read an interview with Patrick: THE HUMAN ASPECT

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STREET FASHION - CHINA

By Eva Fydrych

Photos by Patrick Wack

Third series of pictures taken by a Shanghai-based photographer Patrick Wack. The photos were created over the last couple of years and feature street trends not only in main fashion centres like Shanghai or Beijing, but also some smaller Chinese cities. Featured in this series: MEN'S FASHION.

For more information about the photographer, please visit his official website: Patrick Wack.

All photos by Patrick Wack

***NO PART OF THIS SITE, OR ANY OF THE CONTENT CONTAINED HEREIN, MAY BE USED OR REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S).***

Read an interview with Patrick: THE HUMAN ASPECT

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STREET FASHION - CHINA

By Eva Fydrych
Photos by Patrick Wack

Second series of pictures taken by a Shanghai-based freelance photographer Patrick Wack. The photos were created over the last couple of years and feature street trends not only in main fashion centres like Shanghai or Beijing, but also some smaller Chinese cities. Featured trend: TROUSERS & SHORTS.

For more information about the photographer, please visit his official website: Patrick Wack.

Read an exclusive interview with Patrick: THE HUMAN ASPECT

All photos by Patrick Wack

***NO PART OF THIS SITE, OR ANY OF THE CONTENT CONTAINED HEREIN, MAY BE USED OR REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S).***

See more Street Fashion photos from China: Part 1

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CONTRIBUTORS

Meet Fashion Studio Magazine regular contributors:

LISA DOHERTY - Toronto

Lisa Doherty is a Makeup Artist based in Kingston, Ontario. Lisa shares her beauty knowledge with our readers in her regular articles for Fashion Studio. Not only is she a talented Makeup Artist, but she is a great writer too! Her articles are always very interesting and informative, featuring the latest beauty and makeup trends in the industry.

Website: Starstruck Makeup Artistry - Kingston ON





GAIL - Bangkok

Gail is a fashion blogger based in Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a certificate in Fashion Design. Her fashion experience includes working for a Singaporean designer Frederick Lee, a fashion retailer Zalora, New York based designer Flinga Co. and Universal Studios in Florida. Gail has not only a great eye for fashion trends, but also a lot of positive energy, creative mind, and a unique approach to fashion.

Website: The Equinox Fashion

EUGENE DE VILLAMIL - New York

Eugene De Villamil is a New York based photographer with many years of experience in the industry. His fine-art work has been exhibited in several galleries and has been published domestically and internationally. Eugene is a member of Professional Photographers of America, Canon Professional Services, and International Center of Photography.

Eugene covers events & fashion shows in NYC.

Website: Eugene De Villamil

PATRICK WACK - Shanghai

Patrick Wack is a French photographer living in Shanghai. His work has been published in Marie-Claire, Vogue, Asia Magazine and Travel & Leisure. His commercial clients include such agencies as BBH and Wieden+Kennedy for Nike, the Shangri-La group, Novartis, Daimler Benz, GE, and the ELLE group. Patrick is a member of the LAIF photo agency and a co-founder of the China-based UBQT collective.

Patrick covers Street Fashion in China.

Website: Patrick Wack

TIM COMMONS - Melbourne

Tim Commons is a Graphic Designer & Photographer from Australia. Inspired by Albert Watson, Juliet Taylor, and Gary Windogrand, he is especially passionate about street photography and events.

"Experimentation should be embraced enthusiastically... I am very reliable and actively engage in designing a shoot. I create layered, evocative (thought provoking) content that lasts way beyond this seasons fashion. Everyday photography that is not so everyday."

Website: TH!NK Graphic Design

BILL CHEN - Sydney

Bill has been a part of the TVC and Film industry for the past 10 years, and is currently working on George Miller’s 3D follow up to ‘Happy Feet’.

In late 2002, Bill started label Meet Tyrone as a creative vehicle to pursue and further his other interests. Initially envisaged and launched as a street fashion label using T-shirts as the chosen medium to deliver graphic art to a different and larger audience, it later progressed and expanded into more trend conscious street wear. Over the past two years, the Meet Tyrone label has progressed to hold more of a photography focus. The goal is to instead help other designers and artists to showcase their work.

          Websites: Bill Chen & Meet Tyrone

DEJAN / PHANTASEE PHOTO - Sydney

Dejan is an architect by profession. Over the past 20 years, Dejan has worked on projects around the world – Europe, South Africa, Middle East, Australia. Most of his work is architectural photography, from architectural details, interiors, individual homes and buildings, to urban developments and cityscapes.

"Architecture provides framework for life and I try to capture life's moments with my photography. Street fashion certainly provides some of most attractive moments to be captured. As Coco Chanel said: “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”

Website: Phantasee Photo

FRANCES CARLETON - Sydney

Frances Carleton is a Communications Consultant and freelance writer based in Sydney. As part of her work she is required to take photographs of corporate settings, industrial locations and other unglamorous situations. Being part of the Fashion Studio has given her a reason to get the camera out for a little razzle-dazzle.

Frances covers Street Fashion in Sydney.

Website: FCConsulting

AXELLE MANFRINI - Paris

Axelle Manfrini, born in 1987 in Avignon in the south of France, started design studies in high school. After her graduation, she left for Paris where she specialized in fashion design at the Paris School of Art. She then proceeded to study photography at the Université de Paris 8. She now lives and works in Paris.

Her eclectic background gave her the opportunity to take an interest in design, visual art, fashion, cinema... This curiosity of all things artistic gives her a source of diversified skills on which she draws constantly to enhance her photographic skill set. As a photographer, Axelle Manfrini tries to give another meaning to reality. For her, photography is not just a document, it is a space for creation. She captures the light and wanders in a location to invent a new photographic space.

Website: Axelle Manfrini

JADA LOMBARD - Kingston

Jada Lombard is a Professional Freelance Makeup Artist and the owner of The Green Bath & Beauty Company, a business which solely retails natural, Vegan/Vegetarian, eco-friendly, and Organic beauty products. Her retail lines are all lovingly crafted in Canadian cities including Kingston, Toronto, and Morden (Manitoba).

Jada writes for Fashion Studio about beauty and health.

Website: The Green Bath & Beauty Company

LYNDA CASTONGUAY - Toronto

Lynda is a Law & Justice graduate first and a Fashion Design graduate second. With a background like hers, she understands the propriety of speech but also embraces the freedom of creativity. Lynda is enthusiastic about fashion as a whole: designing, styling, photography, writing, and even its psychology. She is a self proclaimed spelling champ and enjoys the intricacy of written composition.

“Society is so fast paced that we don't take the time to fully write out our words. Short-forming is so prevalent and when we're surrounded by such restrictions as the 140 characters of Twitter, that shortening translates into the real world. That's where I come in. One should never compromise accuracy for expeditiousness."

Lynda is responsible for copy-editing and proof reading.

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PATRICK WACK: Exclusive Interview

by Eva Fydrych

Patrick Wack is a French photographer living and working in Shanghai. His images have been published in many international magazines like Marie-Claire France, Vogue China, Asia Magazine or Travel & Leisure, to name just a few.

The main focus of Patrick's photography is the human aspect via portraits, street fashion, editorial and institutional reporting. In an exclusive interview for the Fashion Studio, Patrick talks about his experiences in China, passion for photography and his future plans. Despite his obvious talent and many achievements, he remains humble and down to earth, still searching not only for new ideas and concepts to explore, but also his "perfect place" to live...

Patrick

Occupation: Photographer

City: Shanghai, China

ELLE Fashion Show in Shanghai, Photo by Patrick Wack

FASHION STUDIO: When did you move to Shanghai? How do you like living in China? 

PATRICK: I moved to Shanghai in 2006. I had graduated from business school in Paris two years before that and had been working in a music software company since then in Berlin. 

I do like living in Shanghai. I think… But my tendency to think that there is a better place for me somewhere, keeps me permanently unsatisfied. I have a love-hate relationship with Shanghai and with China in general, a country of profound beauty, dynamism and kindness but also sometimes mind baffling with stupidity, ignorance and violence, whether it comes from random people or institutions. 

I think the more cultural Beijing would suit me more than Shanghai, which is a business city, but my work is here for now.

FASHION STUDIO: How did you get involved in photography?

PATRICK: Sports had been my major focus over my teenage years but at the turn of my 20s it just wasn’t enough anymore. I was also looking for something a bit more creative I guess. I have always been surrounded by photographs, lots of books at home that I enjoyed to go through and my father was a dilettante photographer. I always admired photojournalists, portrait photographers and street photographers. Being able to create beautiful images out of the reality around us fascinated me. I just picked up my father’s camera and started shooting around. It became an obsession and a major source of frustration for me, and still is.

FASHION STUDIO: Do you remember your first big project?

ELLE Fashion Show in Shanghai;
Photo by Patrick Wack

PATRICK: "Big" is a very subjective notion but for me that was my first ad job. A small ad for the Shangri-la group in Shanghai. The magic thing about China five years ago – and still today even though this is changing fast in first-tier cities like Shanghai and Beijing – is that totally inexperienced photographers like me could get to shoot jobs like this. 

I had never shot in a studio before and did not even know how to trigger a strobe but still was trusted to deliver a series of high fashion visuals shooting a pretty famous Chinese top-model. 

FASHION STUDIO: What do you consider your greatest achievement so far?

PATRICK: Living the life that to some extent I want to live and not following a path that was dictated to me by my environment. 

FASHION STUDIO: How to become a good photographer? What is most important?

PATRICK: No idea honestly, still looking for the answer to that one and that still keeps me awake quite a few nights per week. 

FASHION STUDIO: Any photography books you could recommend?

PATRICK: I have recently bought Infidel by Tim Hetherington. Just a few weeks before he was killed documenting the siege of Misrata in Lybia. Check out his work in general, a very innovative and modern visual reporter. 

FASHION STUDIO: Where did you get an idea for the street fashion project from? What was your inspiration?

PATRICK: I just enjoy walking around and looking at people so street fashion came naturally. Plus I enjoy looking at other street fashion blogs and being a very shy person when it comes to talking to people, I thought that could work as a free therapy. 

FASHION STUDIO: Do random people like being photographed?

Shanghai Mode Lingerie - Eurovet;
Photo by Patrick Wack

PATRICK: Pls define "random"…

FASHION STUDIO: What would you say about the way people dress in Shanghai?

PATRICK: Random.

FASHION STUDIO: Best shopping spots in the city...

PATRICK: Tao Bao (Chinese eBay).

FASHION STUDIO: Do you follow fashion yourself?

PATRICK: I don’t follow fashion at all. I really don’t care much about it. But I do like looking at fashion images as they are often beautifully executed images and I also love looking at people on the streets.

I don’t look at what they are wearing but at how they are wearing it in accordance with their body. Elegance to me is a very intriguing concept with a lot of different aspects.

FASHION STUDIO: Which fashion designers are popular in China? 

PATRICK: Anything that’s expensive. 

FASHION STUDIO: What's your definition of success? 

PATRICK: I could give you an idea of what success would be for my month of June but for anything more long term, I’m afraid I still have no idea. 

FASHION STUDIO: Your life philosophy... 

PATRICK: I very much envy people who have certainties in their lives, especially about what they want to achieve. I guess once you manage to find these certainties, you can give your best for it and that frees your mind. I’m still struggling to find my certainties but I guess that’s healthy in some way. 

FASHION STUDIO: What projects are you currently working on? 

PATRICK: I’m shooting the ad campaign for a new Chinese shoe brand from the Metersbonwe group at the end of the month and then shooting all of Suez’s China Annual report. Besides that my major project these days is finding a cool photo project to focus on for the summer. 

FASHION STUDIO: What are your future plans? 

PATRICK: Probably moving to Beijing and shooting more personal/editorial work.

FASHION STUDIO: Thank you and all the best with your projects. I'm sure a lot of readers will envy you living the life that you want and having so many great experiences along the way...

By Eva Fydrych

Visit Patrick's official website: www.patrick-wack.fr

Shanghai Mode Lingerie - Eurovet; Photo by Patrick Wack

Shanghai Mode Lingerie - Eurovet; Photo by Patrick Wack

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See Patrick's STREET FASHION photos from China: PART 1, PART 2

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