Soft Crash is a quiet collision—a meeting point between beauty and resistance, between the polished surface of fashion and the raw truths of queer and transgender identity. Set within the drop-off and carpark area of Eaton HK, a hotel that champions diversity and social activism, this exhibition turns a space of transition into a space of transformation.

Traditionally, both fashion and photography have been shaped by binary frameworks—filtered through the dominant lens of a heteronormative, male gaze. Bodies are often captured to please, to sell, or to conform. Fashion photography, in particular, has been dismissed as commercial ephemera, rarely acknowledged as serious art. Soft Crash resists these limitations. Through the eyes of queer, trans, and non-binary photographers and subjects, fashion becomes a tool of disruption—a site where identities are assembled, unstitched, and reimagined.

The carpark setting is more than aesthetic; it is metaphor. A place of pause, of waiting, of movement and margins. It reflects the lived experience of many queer individuals—forever navigating thresholds, existing between arrival and departure, visibility and erasure. Soft Crash honors that liminality. It asks: what does it mean to be seen, but not recognized? To be styled, but not understood? This exhibition embraces contradiction. It is elegant but defiant, composed but emotionally charged. Every frame is a negotiation of selfhood—bold, fragile, fluid. Fashion here is not decoration, but declaration.

Opening: 5-7pm

Venue address: G/F Car Park, Eaton HK