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Chinese Fashion Designer Wu Haiyan, A Little Girl In Hangzhou, West Lake, "Thirteen"

2011/4/30 11:14:00 54

Fashion Designer Wu Haiyan West Lake Hangzhou

Wu Haiyan: how to express Chinese traditional things

On the two floor of the China Silk Museum, you can see Wu Haiyan's works, some of which are familiar things.

But it is not so pure retro, the belly pocket has two bands, and the cheongsam has become a big skirt. Wu Haiyan has a secret word. "Popular revival is to rub the traditional classics into modern times, instead of doing the same work in the ancient tombs."

Wu Haiyan is one of the main planner of the "seven arts festival" important cultural and art exhibition - "fashion centenary - twentieth Century Chinese clothing art retrospective exhibition".

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As outsiders know, Wu Haiyan has a special liking for traditional things.

In 1983, she went to the Dunhuang grottoes and stayed there for more than ten days. What she did every day was kneeling on the murals in the grottoes.

Returning from Dunhuang, she was in a trance for ten years. She was very upset. She felt that Chinese traditional things were beautiful, but she did not know how to behave.

"The Chinese cheongsam is the most beautiful in 40s, and the people who made cheongsam did not jump over the threshold." many fashion designers think so, and Wu Haiyan nodded in agreement.

"There are not many people making clothes by hand now. People who used to make clothes were called" craftsmen ". They stitched out the most elaborate ones. Now there is no" craftsman ", and good design can not do that well.

But Wu Haiyan also said with great confidence: "with the progress of science and technology, the machine can also catch up with the handicraft. Now I know how to express Chinese traditional things, that is to pass on the old craft."