著名時裝設計真人騷《天橋驕子》(ProjectRunway)中的主持有一句名言“In fashion, one day you are in, the other day you are out”。道出了時裝設計的變幻無常。美國如是，香港亦如是。CULTaMAP先帶大家到香港理工大學，與紡織及製衣學系畢業生Kay Kwok談談男性化及女性化的平衡、簡約和誇張的取捨，以及商業與創意的掙扎，再到哈佛一窺常春藤聯盟的學院風打扮，然後看人稱「牛仔褲攝影師」的Ryan McGinley如何把流行的時裝文化拍進一幀幀照片之中。

衣服，穿在自己身上，看在別人眼裏，從來不只是一塊布料這麼簡單。

CULTaMAP 不只把地圖上每個城市有關視覺文化的新知新聞帶給大家，並希望讀者親身體驗我城的視覺文化。所以由今期起，CULTaMAP將增設CULTa18，介紹18區值得一看的文化點，每期一區，頭炮是次文化搖籃——旺角區。

There is a well-known quote in Project Runway, one of the world smashing fashion

designers reality shows, “In fashion, one day you are in, the other day you are out”.

It conveys the vagaries of fashion and trend that sweep both US and Hong Kong. In

the following articles, Kay Kwok from Hong Kong Polytechnic University is

interviewed for how he strikes a balance between all paradoxes in fashion designing;

how the new Ivy League dressing style arises in Harvard University; nevertheless

the creative journey of “denim photographer” Ryan McGinley.

Clothing, worn on your own body, spotted in the others’ eyes, is more than a thing.

CULTaMAP extends your visual culture into reality. From this issue and onwards, we

would offer a recommended list of cultural spots in one of the 18 districts in Hong

Kong. In this issue, Mong Kok, being the cradle of different subcultures, is embedded

with multifarious cultural spots that we can not wait unveiling!