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fashion designer Wilson Ong whiteclifFe Year Four Fashion
With the America’s Cup being fiercely contested off San Francisco, the city where Ong grew up,
there was a certain logic to his latest collection taking sailing as its inspiration. Or maybe it was
more significant that sailing represents the junction between technology and nature, long a
founding principle of Ong’s work. The uniform of the sailor is, in many ways, an ultimate image
of man in union with nature, the designer claimed, a statement that perfectly nailed the curiously
poetic spirit that nestles at the heart of his occasionally bone dry aesthetic.