In a time of national prosperity, cultural export is happening in all walks of life. In the fashion world, there are also many designers who are quietly working hard to show the world how beautiful Chinese style can be.
"Chinese style" is something you often hear about, from the songs of Zhou Dong to the style of clothing, Chinese style has become a much sought-after fashion. Today we are going to talk about the "embroidery" into the New York Fashion Week, a northeastern boy, he used the wonderful Chinese style clothing design, surprised the world.
Chinese style represents our country's long history of culture, which is manifested in the clothing, especially the test of the designer's ability. Foreign brands every Spring Festival out of the "Chinese style" limited models, you can see their understanding of our culture deviation. But this 90-year-old designer Zhang Yan, but the use of "embroidery" cleverly show the subtleties of our culture, clothing tradition.
The boy from Shenyang has dreamed of being a fashion designer since he was a child. From the age of 14, he studied art and design on his own, graduated from college at the age of 22 and began to work with embroidery and traditional clothing, and at the age of 24, he was invited to participate in New York Fashion Week, where his work was highly acclaimed. Zhang Yan's design will be a combination of flavor and modern fashion, and then integrated into the traditional embroidery techniques, there is the heritage of the national style without falling into the cliché. Do now in the New York Fashion Week shine, he used a full 10 years.
"Chinese style" in the end where the beauty?
1, unique oriental classical elements
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To say that the most beautiful place of the Chinese style, must be unique oriental elements. Like the most familiar reflection in ink painting, landscape, flowers and birds are all representatives of the elegant mood of Chinese style. In Zhang Yan's designs, these elements are skillfully used in embroidery, which is both classical and elegant. Such oriental flavor is very unique compared to western designs.
2. A stitch in time
Fashion has always been judged in the context of Western aesthetics, and the craftsmanship of foreign brands has always been a highlight of their high fashion. And Zhang Yan's traditional embroidery is the best way to represent our country's handmade skills. China has a variety of embroidery styles have a long history, a needle and thread carefully carved out of the national style elements come to life, which is the unique beauty of the national style + embroidery.
3, simple and elegant cultural heritage
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Country style clothing another part of the eye, is the smooth and unconventional tailoring. Instead of the Western design language of three-dimensional tailoring, precise fit, and necessarily wearing curves, the draped, loose lines not only show off a spontaneous, laid-back attitude, but also a superior level of comfort. This can also be seen in Zhang Yan's design, combined with a bright modern sense of silhouette chic without losing flavor.
Many people feel that fashion on the runway is not everyday, in fact, understanding Zhang Yan's design is the best way to learn how to wear national style clothing more advanced and elegant. If you like national style clothing, you may want to learn from it.
How to wear "Chinese style" exquisite and not pompous?
1, small area + integration of modern elements
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Many of the national style is in fact "pseudo national style", simple pile of classical elements, old and rustic. The use of national style patterns in delicate embroidery, far more beautiful than a large area of exaggerated prints. The picture is a group of Zhang Yan's design, combined with modern elements and reduce the area of embroidery, simply decorated in the waist thin and elegant.
2, color elegant and more advanced
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Color is also wearing a good national style of a major highlight, less wear big red and green bright colors, elegant national style of light color more temperament, show senior. No matter what age, such a color scheme can brighten the complexion, fashion with tailoring and embroidery, prints and other small details decorated on the good. Zhang Yan's design even without large embroidery, simple cut and color is very oriental flavor.
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This color scheme can be more subdued and elegant, such as the dark flowers in the picture is one of them, do not like the elegant light color, it is also worth trying.
3, but not too tight and constrained cut
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While the national style of clothing has a cheongsam such as slim models, but must be accompanied by the lower open fork such a sense of decency, which is the Oriental flavor in a slightly dashing charm. So if you want to wear an authentic Chinese style flavor, it is important to make use of the sense of drape, line and loose sense. The picture of the three groups of modeling are so, not all the body taut over-exertion feeling, just the right show curves, more elegant.
The beauty of Chinese style lies more in the cultural heritage, and Zhang Yan has shown it very precisely with the subtlety of embroidery and tailoring. His designs let the world know how beautiful Chinese style can really be, and they also give us more understanding and pride in our own national style aesthetics. The points above will allow us to avoid the cheapness of pseudo-Chinese style in our outfits, so give it a try.
How beautiful is the Chinese style, the northeast guy with embroidery into New York Fashion Week, surprised the world.