"Chu He Tingxiang·Chu Yan" APEC fashion designer Chu Yan pushes new work

A few days ago, at the China International Fashion Week (2018 Spring/Summer Collection), a costume displayed at the press conference called “Chu He Tingxiang·Chu Yan” attracted wide attention from domestic and foreign media.

The reason why it is concerned, on the one hand, is because the designer of this conference is Chu Yan, APEC conference leader costume designer. On the other hand, it is because the work closely echoes the “Belt and Road” and presents the author's discovery and reflection on the Chinese culture that continues on the ancient road.

Looking for the imprint of the integration of Eastern and Western civilizations along the Millennium Silk Road

Starting from Xi'an, passing through Dunhuang, Turpan, Kuche, Kashi, then Uzbekistan, Nepal, India, and finally arriving in Italy, Chu Yan searched for the imprint of the integration of Eastern and Western civilization along the Millennium Silk Road. "The 45 sets of works interpret the romanticism of the journey, the faint and graceful life of graceful life, and the graceful manners, expressing the development process of the collision and integration of the Eastern civilization and the world civilization, and the common development process." Chu Yan introduced.

It is understood that the press conference will start from the fabric design, the design will be integrated with modern brocade, digital printing, laser engraving and embroidery techniques, and the re-interpreted designers will collect the ancient fabrics from the countries along the Silk Road. The pattern also uses the ingenious use of traditional Chinese silk craftsmanship.

Very special, the designer Chu Yan is keenly aware of the most important means of transportation and journey of the millennium Silk Road - Ma, and the winged horse pattern on the Tang Dynasty brocade unearthed along the Silk Road as a design factor throughout. . The winged horses that have been marching for thousands of years, spanning the history of the gods, not only let the oriental Zen aesthetics and foreign cultures blend together, but also bear the endless lifeline of the Chinese civilization.

Demonstrate cultural confidence in fashion design

Chu Yan is familiar because she has hosted a special Chinese-style costume designed for the 2014 Beijing APEC Conference Welcome Dinner. In her works, traditional Chinese techniques such as dyeing, weaving and embroidering can be seen everywhere, conveying Chinese elegance and calmness. She always insists on infiltrating the connotation of Chinese traditional culture and art in fashion design, and conveys Chinese traditional culture and aesthetic interest to the international fashion industry.

For a long time, as an outstanding representative of Chinese youth fashion designers, in Chu Yan, it also carries the mission and responsibility of “Let the new Chinese clothing lead the new fashion” and “Let China design go to the world”.

In Chu Yan's view, China's local design is welcoming its own era. This is the result of the joint efforts of the entire clothing industry and consumer groups. It is also inseparable from the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation.

For Chu Yan, she has always believed in the ancient concept of “drawing clothes and treating the world”. In her view, clothing is an important part of etiquette. “China is known as the “land of clothing” and the state of etiquette. The reputation of today's Chinese fashion designers is very heavy.

“Returning to history, gazing at the moment, fashion designers want Chinese culture to be the foundation of their creation, with a keen eye, a unique perspective, a strong cultural responsibility, a fresh sense of fashion, and a humanistic view of the history of world civilization. Knowing the development of China's clothing for thousands of years and the traditional culture contained in the development of clothing, it has become a communicator of Chinese culture, a discoverer of beauty, a pioneer of fashion and beauty." Chu Yan said.

Editor in charge: Xu Yuehua