Dressing Up: Sandy Liang

Ways of dressing from New York-based designer Sandy Liang--a love letter to girlhood, femininity, and personal style.

More than a decade into her namesake fashion brand, Sandy Liang celebrates the quintessential girlish universe she has built--one that has captivated a devoted audience the world over. Her collections--featuring bows, Peter Pan collars, pleated skirts, ballet-inspired details, florals, and kawaii motifs--combine a downtown New York sensibility with references drawn from memory, nostalgia, and youth culture. While rooted in her upbringing in New York City, Liang's work has cultivated a global following, with audiences in Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and beyond.

This new compendium is for the girls. It gathers iconic ephemera from Liang's world: offering an inspiring peek behind the curtain: a deep dive into the designer's obsessions, childhood nostalgia, and reverence for the past. Newly published images from Liang's archive--including her personal film and iPhone photos--are curated using an intimate lens, offering readers a look at a treasure trove of cherished inspirations, countless runway shots, endless variations of uniform dressing, and more--all of which will inspire readers to expand their own, unique, ways of getting dressed.