Vogue China April 2025 : Liu Wen by Sean+Seng

Never understood why Sean and Seng didn’t take off, I’ve always enjoyed their work a lot and it is very polished in a good way.
Agreed! Love their work in Pop in the early 2010’s especially!
 
These look like polished campaign shots than the usual boring editorial photos from the recent issues of Vogue.
 
Vogue China has the best covers lately! Jiahui Zhang last month, He Cong in February, now Liu Wen. Liu is such an awesome model, she can never do wrong. I love, love, love her. That portrait of her in the grey cape is simply stunning.
 
Never understood why Sean and Seng didn’t take off, I’ve always enjoyed their work a lot and it is very polished in a good way.

The very obvious fake sets are charming. But they’re unable to take it just that extra step creatively, and transcend the mere good imagery to high fashion vision to be worthy of remembrance. Even more so that it takes two people to conjure all this, and they still can’t make it there; but never been fond of fashion duos even the best of duos can’t compare to the lone Great. And maybe that’s why they never took off. That, and politics.

They’re technically competent and even creatively solid; they know how to create and produce a mood, and set a narrative tone; Although they’re more or less a more commercial but lesser version of Mert & Marcus/I&V/Bruce Weber. Which unfortunately puts them in a nether region of being too creative with their fashion references for the children raised on socials, and too lacking in originality to hang with the iconic names for us b!tches with too high standards. But they’re superior in every way to the overhyped lessers Tyler/Nadine/Zoe etc.
 

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