Fashion Fiesta
Facebook Pinterest A New Art-Fashion Label Is Exploring Asian-American Identity Photo: Courtesy of CFGNY 47 Canal is a shoebox-sized gallery on the corner of Grand and Eldridge. Owned by artist Margaret Lee, it has become a gathering point for the Asian artistic community on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It was there that Tin Nguyen and Daniel Chew chose to stage an intimate show for their label CFGNY (Concept Foreign Garments New York) late last month, an eclectic presentation that felt both like a coming-of-age moment for the rising brand and a physical manifestation of their mission statement—to explore the Asian-American experience through the lens of performative art and fashion. In other words, to render a visual and emotional meditation on Asian-American identity, while building a like-minded fashion-arts collective to support it. A recycled cardboard sculpture of an enormous koi fish, its scales made from old tatami house slippers, cut-up ...