{"id":80482,"date":"2026-08-29T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=80482"},"modified":"2026-08-29T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:56:59","slug":"how-hong-kong-is-vital-in-patrick-mcdowells-ready-to-wear-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=80482","title":{"rendered":"How Hong Kong is vital in Patrick McDowell\u2019s ready-to-wear expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At 30, Patrick McDowell already has the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of designer lore: winner of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, guest speaker at the United Nations on sustainability in fashion, and celebrity clients that include Lady Gaga, Keira Knightley and Sarah Jessica Parker.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Now the London-and-Venice-based British fashion designer has turned his attention to Asia, where he will speak at Hong Kong\u2019s Fashion Summit (HK) conference at the Hong Kong Palace Museum on September 3.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">McDowell first came to the city at 17, having financed the journey by making bags and selling them to friends. Hong Kong struck the teenager from Wirral near Liverpool as \u201can amazing washing machine of the whole world in one place\u201d. It remains a fitting image for a city that excels at ideas, textiles, capital and speed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI respond really well to that,\u201d McDowell says. \u201cI like working very quickly, and I like that kind of immediacy in Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1molpf5 e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A model walks the runway at the Patrick McDowell Ready to Wear Autumn\/Winter 2026-27 fashion show at London Fashion Week in February 2026. Photo: Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/08\/27\/0902e629-d64a-422f-8baf-8cb8bba08b6c_12a69b9d.jpg\" title=\"A model walks the runway at the Patrick McDowell Ready to Wear Autumn\/Winter 2026-27 fashion show at London Fashion Week in February 2026. Photo: Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images\"\/><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">A model walks the runway at the Patrick McDowell Ready to Wear Autumn\/Winter 2026-27 fashion show at London Fashion Week in February 2026. Photo: Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Over a decade on, he returns with a consequential retail foothold at Joyce Boutique, whose racks have long offered a regional test of fashion\u2019s next proposition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/fashion-beauty\/article\/3365392\/how-hong-kong-vital-patrick-mcdowells-ready-wear-expansion?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 30, Patrick McDowell already has the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of designer lore: winner of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, guest speaker at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6310,3569,5231,29116,18027,29117,2990],"class_list":["post-80482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-expansion","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-mcdowells","tag-patrick","tag-readytowear","tag-vital","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}