Chinese Design Must Be More Than Dragon And Phoenix

Guo Pei is not the first Chinese designer to create a great stir in the media with gorgeous design.

The bright yellow "Dragon Robe" dress worn by X actress Fan Bingbing at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival is the work of Lawrence Hu (Laurence Xu, Xu Jianshu). The Hollywood reporter describes the dress with "putting her on top of fashion."

"Beautiful shocking!" wrote the website of the Red Carpet Awards.

In fact, due to the great concern of the robe, actress Hailu Qin publicly criticized Fan Bingbing for declaring himself "a sister of China" (which Fan Bingbing denied). The London Vitoria and Albert museum used the Dragon Robe as a permanent collection.

Now, "Dragon Robe" and Guo Pei's two works are being exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fashion Institute's new exhibition, "China: mirror and water moon".

Compared with the "Dragon Robe" made by Tom Ford (Tom Ford) for Yves Saint Laurent, Lawrence Hu's works highlight the unique way modern Chinese designers interpret Chinese aesthetic history, and reflect the attention and affirmation of a new group of Asian designers with the artistic concept of "the modern balance of the East and the West".

For example, in April last year, Yin Yiqing, a Chinese woman designer living in Paris, won the title of "designer of the year" of the famous French Globes de Cristal and was appointed artistic director of Leonard L, a French fashion company.

In 2008, Qiu Hao won the International Woolmark Prize with his minimalist and wind driven handmade fabrics.

"There are many different brands in China that produce various works and 1 billion 300 million of the huge population. We will see such a development - Chinese designers do not have to adapt to us, they will learn from us, and then add needles and lines to form their own style."

Gemma A. A, author of Fashion China, said Gemma A. Williams.

Zhang Da's design has "boundless vision", giving new elements to traditional cotton padded clothes with luxurious cotton cloth, soft pink and modern geometric patterns.

Liu Qingyang's brand Chictopia is painted by hand rather than by computer.

Digest Design, the designer of Dooling Jiang, has also used traditional techniques in her design. She used ancient cutting techniques to create conceptual works, such as shirts, seven pairs of trousers, a very short jacket and petticoat type slim dress.

As Zhang Huishan, a London designer who was born in Qingdao, said, Chinese elements are far more than Dragon and Phoenix and big red.

"These designers have an interesting feeling - like a blank sheet of paper, they are more willing to take risks in design."

Zhang Yu, editor in chief of Vogue China Edition, wrote in an e-mail.

She said that when Vogue China version was first established in 2005, she spent a lot of efforts to find designers to barely fill in the version, but now there are so many Chinese designers.

For example, China's new designer, 32 year old Xiao Xiao Xue, founded his own brand in Guangzhou after winning the international wool logo award in 2012.

He used ancient embroidery techniques to create flowers and grid patterns in his elegant works with feminine feminine beauty, and was famous for her fabric experiments.

The designer of Beijing used the Philosophical Expression of Yu Ning's brand Evening.

Her last series was inspired by Chinese five birds' play (a traditional way of exercising, by imitating the movements of animals to achieve balance of body and mind), which is full of sculptured wool coat, thick short sweater and pparent long skirt.

Liu also, a 34 year old designer who combines the classic high collar with a pparent shoulder coat, has trained in Viktor & Rolf fashion company, and has also designed a pparent long sleeved sweater incorporating the calligraphy elements.

Leaf Greener, a stylist and a well-known blogger, is a former top fashion editor of Ella China.

Instagram and micro-blog, WeChat and other ways have made Chinese designers have a wider audience.

"I like it.

"The leaf said," on this season's Giambattista Valli show in Paris, I wore a simple turtleneck designed by Chinese designer Ouyang Dan (Chrisou Dan), paired with Calvin Klein skinny jeans, C line jacket, and Louis Vuitton and ankle boots.

This shows that the focus of Chinese fashion is not only the past, but also the present.

Bu Kewen, a former stylist, became a designer in 2010. He attributed his rapid success to micro-blog, and many celebrities like Xu Fan and Fan Bingbing displayed his works on micro-blog. Fan Bingbing wore his gold on Christopher Gala Bu.

And the cloak of geometric patterns.

Similarly, Huang quietly and Josh Hupper are also using social media to promote their brand of Chao Babyghost, which has appeared in New York fashion week for the two consecutive quarter. They spend two hours in Manhattan and half in Shanghai.

"Thanks to the timeliness of the quiet blog and Instagram, we gradually formed the sixth sense of consumer response," Hupper said. "We adjusted the volume of products according to the consumer's response to products on Instagram, so we have established a business model based on fans."

Andrew Bolton, the Museum of fashion show in Changan, thinks that this represents the future of fashion. Drew

"Chinese designers are well versed in the application of new technologies, and the future of fashion is technology.

Chinese designers take advantage of this, open up the market and grasp the key elements of fashion.