K11 mall taps Canto-pop composer Mark Lui for fashion art exhibition
Lui, who had his own menswear brand for a time, designs T-shirt collection for show which also features the work of Hong Kong fashion designers Kay Kwok and ‘upcycler’ Toby Crispy
Prolific Canto-pop composer Mark Lui Chung-tak has always been interested in fashion – interested enough to start his own clothing brand, which he did several years ago.
“I had to close it down because doing retail in Hong Kong is very hard,” he says. But he’s still designing clothes, and is among the contributors to Fashion Muse, an exhibition and pop-up store in the K11 shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui.
“I always liked fashion, and I always put craftsmanship in my designs. People can see the effort you put in your designs,” Lui says.
His Fashion Muse T-shirt collection stands out for its vibrant use of colours. “I believe colours are a very important factor,” he says. “They make you happy and put you in a good mood.”
The T-shirts use two basic designs. “There’s a French guy on one T-shirt because Agnès B [who Lui collaborated with] is a French brand and there’s a Chinese guy because we’re in Hong Kong.”