Shanghai-based designer Wang Tao creates masculine-inspired women’s suits you can bank on

Shanghai-based designer Wang Tao celebrated two years since her New York Fashion Week launch with a stunning collection of elegant banker chic for the independent, clever woman.

Wang – who studied fashion in Japan, worked in Britain and still keeps a studio in London – chooses to show her collections in New York as the financial capital of the fashion world.

Hers is a sophisticated look that elongates the figure with on-trend vertical stripes, black-and-white blazer-style dresses with sexy frayed hemlines, delicate lace tops and soft pleats.

It was a meditation on classic masculine-inspired office wear, made luxurious with the use of gorgeous fabrics, and feminine with lace detailing: a look after the heart of many a Park Avenue businesswoman.

Next year she plans to open a store in Manhattan, her first outside China for namesake brand Taoray Wang, and she sees the Big Apple as a key emerging market.

“We have a lot of career women working in New York and so maybe that’s why this market is becoming very attractive to us,” she says. “The market is here.”