Lee's new limited-edition collection with London designer Feng Chen Wang arrives in North America, its deconstructed denim speaking a language familiar to lingerie historians. The collaboration, featuring asymmetric seams, laser-etching, and reinvented proportions, treats denim as a malleable canvas - a concept central to intimate apparel. Just as corsetry was deconstructed and reimagined by designers like Jean Paul Gaultier in the 1990s, Lee's classic Rider jacket and barrel jeans are dismantled and reassembled, celebrating structure through its deliberate disruption.
The collection draws on bamboo motifs, a nod to resilience and flexibility. This parallels the technical innovation of brands like Maidenform, which in the mid-20th century revolutionized foundations by introducing new fabrics and constructions for greater freedom. Feng Chen Wang's 'balance of tradition and transformation' mirrors the very evolution of lingerie, where form and function are perpetually negotiated.
Available now, the line re-engineers Lee's heritage silhouettes. For festival-goers seeking distinctive denim, the offering provides wearable art that questions a garment's inherent form - a dialogue between body and cloth that the Lingerie Museum has long documented, from the boning of a corset to the laser-cut edges of a modern bralette.
Originally reported by WWD