Chu Yan, a well-known young Chinese fashion designer, and her brand Chu and Hexiang will present to the world a modern interpretation of contemporary Eastern creative culture. At the same time, Chu Yan has become another Chinese fashion designer on the official release schedule of Paris Fashion Week.
At 19 o'clock on the February 25th, the “2013 Happy Spring Festival Chinese Style Fashion Release†series of activities was supported by the Culture Bureau of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Embassy in France, sponsored by the Chinese Culture Center in Paris, and hosted by the China-Foreign Cultural Exchange Center. In the new exhibition hall of the China Cultural Center in Paris, this is the first time in the fashion exhibition planned and organized by the Ministry of Culture of China. Chu Yan, a well-known young fashion designer from China, will present the brand “Chu and Hexiang†to the world. A Contemporary Interpretation of Ancient Oriental Culture by Contemporary Creative Talents . At the same time, Chu Yan has become another Chinese fashion designer on the official release schedule of Paris Fashion Week.
This event is different from traditional fashion catwalks and highlights the experiential appreciation of Chinese dress culture. The new exhibition hall of the Chinese Culture Center in Paris is the main scene of a simple and elegant but without losing the Chinese style screen. With modern light and multimedia projection methods, the traditional cultural elements such as guqin performances, gongs, incense and incense bring out the dynamic display of design works; In the classic French home environment, the old building is smartly integrated with the static display of the other representative works of the designer, the display of the dyeing process on the grass and wood, and is specialized in setting tea breaks. In addition, the entire center is also image-packed with a unified logo and color, which is full of the festive atmosphere of China's most important traditional festivals, yet elegant and elegant. In order to enable the audience to enter the center from the end of the event, we naturally experience the baptism of a Chinese culture with five features and hearts.
The 20 new performances of this exhibition were selected from its “Chu He Ting Xiang†brand, which was inspired by the ink-and-flowered birds of the Great Master of the Qing Dynasty, the “Badashanrenâ€. All the dresses are made of natural fabrics such as silk, hemp, wool, cotton, etc. They are hand-dyed, embroidered, rolled, pleated, and reconstructed from traditional Chinese craftsmanship. They exhibit a strong three-dimensional effect; The planes and three-dimensional structures of the East and the West are simple and smooth, and the spatial levels are rich and diverse, conveying Chinese elegance, gratitude, and calmness. It is particularly worth mentioning that all the fabrics released this time have adopted traditional Chinese plant dyeing. Plant dyes are the mainstream of ancient Chinese dyeing techniques. They refer to the use of natural flowers, grasses, trees, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds, skins, and roots to extract pigments as dyes, through direct dyeing, mordant dyeing, reducing dyeing, dyeing, and dyeing. Other processes are fabric dyeing. Designer Chu Yan used pomegranate peel, horse blue, African lobular red sandalwood, gardenia, gallnut, hematoxylin, and other wood dyes to create a rich variety of hand-stained fabrics on natural silk, linen, and wool. Effect. The whole set of works not only shows the designer's design ideals of trying to express Chinese aesthetic tastes in the clothing for many years, but also reveals a young Chinese designer’s perception of self in the 21st century: “Listening to the fragrant, listening is not external. Instead of my voice, I discovered the truth of my own heart, bringing forth the world of incense in life, and cultivating the strength and faith that came from my heart."
With the rapid improvement of China's material and cultural standards, people's attention to fashion culture and consumption has entered a new era. In the past decade or more, although the development of China's fashion industry started relatively late and there are fewer works with international influence and standards, there have been many outstanding young and middle-aged designers active at the forefront of international fashion. In particular, there has been a re-learning process. And tapping the essence of traditional culture, innovating the upsurge of contemporary Chinese cultural image, won a good professional reputation and social recognition, but also achieved a certain degree of economic benefits. Therefore, it has become one of the topics that the government has focused on to promote international cultural and cultural exchanges, support the growth of local fashion culture, and realize the full development of the fashion industry. It is reported that the "Chinese Style Fashion Release" series of events will continue to be held in the future.
Chu Yan, a teacher of Beijing Fashion Institute, has not only been active in the stage of domestic fashion events such as “China International Fashion Week†since graduating from graduate school, but has also participated in various international competitions and fashion weeks as a representative of young Chinese designers. He was awarded the Gold Design Award for the “Design 21†International Young Designer Competition organized by UNESCO in 2000 and the “Cultural Olympics†China Concept Fashion Garment Design Contest was awarded the Men’s Wear Silver Award and the Women’s Copper Award for the “Ethnic Olympics†2007; “China "Top Ten Fashion Designers" and 2012 "'Guanghua Dragon Cup' China's Top Ten Outstanding Youth in Design Industry" and other awards. In the past two years, Chu Yan has also founded the personal design studio and the new Chinese-style designer brand “Chuhe Hexiangâ€, providing advanced custom services for many well-known performing arts stars and business politicians. He is a new generation of Chinese designer. The leader.