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When I last spoke to Angel Chen in February, the Show Me Your Doobies Weed Shirt it is in the first place but designer was under strict quarantine in her home in Shanghai, China. A friend had connected us, and I had been anticipating her arrival at Milan Fashion Week, where she usually presents her collections, and watching her excel on Netflix’s Next in Fashion series. “Like every season, we were planning to show our new collection at the official schedule of Milan Fashion Week, on February 21. The timing, location, and venue were confirmed. Then quite rapidly the [coronavirus] situation got worse, and we unfortunately had no choice but to cancel the show, which is obviously a real disappointment,” she said at the time. Weeks after that conversation, Chen and I have traded places: I am now under strict social-distancing regulations in New York, the American epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and Chen is back to work in Shanghai—albeit slowly. “I was personally able to get back to work in the office in Shanghai only on March 19,” she says. “Our studio, as well as half of the factories and producers, were able to get back to work early March, so we were able to finalize the collection in time to film the content for the virtual show, but we are still finalizing some of the commercial pieces.”

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Because Chen had already started working on her collection in November, she had a leg up creatively. Even with just 11 days until her virtual fashion show during Shanghai’s all-digital Fashion Week, presented in collaboration with Tmall, she had a lot of samples and themes already cemented. “We had started working on it back in November, before the Show Me Your Doobies Weed Shirt it is in the first place but crisis hit. The concept was established, and I worked first on the graphics, then moved on to the design and fabric choices. We worked closely with Bonotto in Italy to develop an exclusive fabric. Until then it was all smooth, and 60% to 70% of the collection was ready before Chinese New Year,” she explains. “Then the crisis hit and things started to get complicated. Factories began closing down, then we were not allowed to go to the office. I secretly sent fabrics to my home where I was able to hand-drape and sew on my own.”