Li-Ning Spring/Summer 2021 - The Art of Movement

As China’s foremost athletics innovator, Li-Ning has, for three decades, enabled and empowered the human body in movement. The brand’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection examines the powerful link between design and kinetic energy—and how clothing, through construction and fabric manipulation, can both protect and propel the body in motion. Li-Ning presents apparel that frees the form and pushes it to its ultimate potential—creating loose silhouettes through techniques of knitting, gathering, puckering, pleating, and knotting. Implementing many pro-gressive textiles, these feats of tailoring accommodate the body in achieving its fullest range of motion.

This concept strips athletics to their universal essence: energetic movements that fuel the human machine. The idea is reflected and simul-taneously abstracted in the season’s collection film, “The Art of Movement,” which was filmed in Shanghai on August 25th, 2020 and will debut online on September 29th as part of Paris Fashion Week. Creative directed by renowned Chinese new media artist Lu Yang, the film is presented in four chapters, each representing one of the classical, elemental energies: earth, fire, water, and air.