Sporting a new look

Who says sportswear is only for exercise? It can also be sensual, rock and roll, and even ... theatrical.

Qiaodan, the leading fashion house in China, recently showed off its latest sportswear collection.

The show was a joyous fashion adventure, full of individuality and freedom. The new collection's highlight was a surprising and incongruous combination of colors and designs that are hybrids of ready-to-wear, lingerie, street fashion and active wear. Deliberately mismatching genres, underwear meets outerwear, seduction blends with street wear, and paradoxes confront each other to create a big range of looks and attitudes. Retro cuts of corsets girdles and push-ups are reinterpreted and updated; flounces, bows and frilly details create a dramatic cabaret look in sensual satin, transparent panels and luxurious lace.