Windowsen’s Mission X comes in peace
On a timid autumn Saturday evening, a portal opened up in Shanghai’s Modern Art Museum. Humming with neon, latex, and silicon, the typical gallery goers evaporated, to be replaced by a flight far more furry, metallic, and green. Welcome to the arrival of Mission X: Windowsen’s Hybrid Interface Project powered by Nike.
Transforming the museum into a thumping sci-fi biosphere, Windowsen’s runway took the form of a hijacked alien laboratory to exhibit their newest collection, Hybrid Interface Project. Embracing a retro-futuristic view on the extraterrestrial, alien bodies hung suspended in life size electric blue test tubes all the while models dawned rhinestoned club fits, knee high silicone boots and exact largely campy interpretations of tech-wear (think two literal iPhone maxes strapped to your earmuffs like humanoid blinders).
Vogue dancer Honey Balenciaga completed the collection’s intergalactic theatrics with an in-show cameo, breaking through their glass cage to duck-walk and deathdrop down the runway. With the collection, Sensen Li, Windowsen’s mastermind, challenges us to view “style as a language for humanity to explore the future”.
The young avant-garde fashion house partnered with Nike to bring the collection and its immersive (and probably very expensive $$) show to life. Alongside Hybrid Interface Project, Windowsen released a limited collection Nike Air Max Muses made their ever-so cyber way. Dropping in two striking colour ways, Windowsen made the traditional running show rave ready, decked out in detachable alien charms, neon transparent chunky soles, and extraterrestrial symbols throughout the design.
Words by Gabriella Meshako
Images courtesy of Windowsen
