Strangers in strange lands

Imagine you are in a far away land, and maybe you already are. The population is completely different from you, and you have a hard time finding clothes you like. If it were me, I’d probably have you all send me clothes (if you would be so kind) but Megan Fischer took a totally different attitude. She started designing her own clothes. After working a few years in the corporate world, she took off on a sabbatical in China that truly changed the course of her life. It’s where she started Matsu Design.

I don’t know about her, but in my own experience of living in another country, it all becomes blaringly obvious that your fashion sense is not universal. Although, I lived in London, I still felt like I stuck out like a provincial sore thumb, dressed in clothes off the Banana Republic sales rack didn’t really fit in with the swanky London fashion scene. But in a county where you are of a more northern European build in a country where everyone is way smaller than you, can prove a whole set of problems besides ‘fitting in’.

I admire Fischer’s innovation and creative solutions, the clothes she made look neither North American nor Asian, but a combination of the sorts. She also got together with fellow ex-pat Todd Anthony Tyler to photograph her collection. They wanted to develop a more editorial look to present the line of clothing. Tyler’s done a wonderful job of doing so.