Yahoo Lifestyle Sean Suen’s Asian Cowboys Ride Into Fall 2025
How far would you go for a cup of tea?
Quite the distance, if the ancient trade routes that inspired Sean Suen’s fall collection is anything to go by. At times a trail barely two feet wide, the tea-horse road was used for two millennia to bring goods across China and neighboring countries.
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The Beijing-based designer looked to long-distance horse riders, lifting cues from their garb and mounts to telegraph the idea of an “Asian cowboy,” as he said in a backstage preview.
Outerwear and tailoring were the strongest, drawing from equally utilitarian workwear shapes and traditional Western tailoring lightly infused with traditional motifs. The palette favored neutrals, spanning black, brewed tea of varying strengths and saffron yellow.
Standouts included a classic black suit that opened the show; a roomy duffle coat with long triangular hems; an XXL parka with equally oversize pockets figuring those on a saddle, and another suit cut from aged leather.
Elsewhere, gestures such as throwing saddle bags around the shoulders, reinterpreted as chunky fuzzy collars thrown over tunics and coats, were cleverly dotted in the lineup. A dab hand at construction, he even figured a backpack in the blousy curving back of a blazer.
While Suen’s inspirations reach far in time and distance, his clever takes for the contemporary man had appeal in the here and now.
Launch Gallery: Sean Suen Men's Fall 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection
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