Designer Anna Yang lands in Milan with out-of-this-world collection

Aliens landed in Milan’s fashion week on Wednesday with Annakiki by Chinese designer Anna Yang, who debuted in the Italian city with an out-of-this-world collection.

Chinese designers are making serious headway in Milan, which is hosting for the fall-winter 2017 season newcomers including Xuzhi Chen, who will show in Giorgio Armani’s theatre later in the week, and the baby-faced Angel Chen.

Yang, born into a tailor’s family, was gripped by the fashion virus aged eight and studied in South Korea and France before establishing her own label in 2012 and exhibiting at the London and Paris fashion weeks in 2014 and 2015.

Her latest creations, Yang said, were “an ode to aliens” and inspired by a documentary on the discovery of extraterrestrials in Mexico in 1947, in which pieces of aluminium foil were found.

“Maybe those aluminium pieces were aliens’ cloth or part of their skin?” she wondered in the notes for the show.

And so she recreated the martians: models sashayed down the runway wearing metallic-coated outfits, with black patent leather boots, blood-red shiny skirts or grey metallic leggings.