Chinese designer label known for its futuristic, gender-fluid menswear and conceptual, tech-influenced tailoring.
ORIGIN
China
PRICE TIER
luxury
Xander Zhou, founded in 2007 by the Beijing-based designer, is a pioneering force in menswear, recognized for its futuristic and conceptual approach. Zhou, who studied industrial design in China and fashion in the Netherlands, was the first Chinese menswear designer to show at London Fashion Week. The brand is defined by its exploration of sci-fi themes, technology, and speculative futures, often blurring the lines between reality and a virtual world inhabited by aliens, androids, and supernatural beings. This narrative-driven approach is encapsulated in Zhou's self-coined term "techno-orientalism," which merges Asian mysticism with a forward-looking, technological aesthetic.