Yuhan Wang Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear: Women in the Boxing Ring

Yuhan Wang continued her journey of spotlighting trailblazing women in their respective fields.

For spring 2025, she set eyes on female fighters such as Laila Ali, Barbara Butterick, Bridget Riley and Jane Couch, who won a sexual discrimination case against the British Boxing Board of Control, which refused to grant her a professional license as a woman.

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Wang said they are shining examples of female empowerment in the male-dominated boxing ring and she wanted to incorporate a Victorian sensibility to a function-focused category.

She repurposed boxing gloves with silk as a fashion statement, cinched the waistline of American football shirts, adorned linebacker shoulder pads with knitted rosettes, and paired sports socks with lace stockings.

There were also plentiful tactile tops covered with sports numbers, basketball shorts with lace trim, puffy miniskirts, and cropped tops with hand-drawn kittens, all of which can be easily picked up by K-pop girl bands for their TikTok dance clips.

“I want to explore a new way to rethink sportswear. In the past, it was all based on men, quite functional, but no one thought about how women would want to dress them in that space to show their romantic and feminine side,” Wang said post-show at the grand London Scottish House in Westminster.

Launch Gallery: Yuhan Wang Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection

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