Fashion Artist Xie Feng Lands On The Stage Of Paris Fashion Week To Create Chinese Elements.

In September 28th, at Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel, Xie Feng joined hands with FAW Volkswagen Audi to climb again.

On the stage of fashion week, "JEFEN BY FRANKIE China Night" Paris fashion week 2013 spring and summer "listening to Horch" fashion conference, put the ancient Chinese handicraft culture Miao embroidery onto the international stage of Paris fashion week.

Fashion artist Xie Feng wants to turn Chinese culture into world language.

"Is this embroidered by your mother, or is it embroidered by you? The color is very good..."

This is a dialogue between Xie Feng and his documentary in the Miao village. It is also part of the touching story that touches Xie Feng's inspiration from Miao people's style and designs the 2013 spring summer series.

In the ancient remote Miao village, most of the children's clothes were embroidered by their mothers, especially girls. From the time of birth, their mothers began to embroider, including a whole set of wedding dresses, to the children's children's children's dresses, and mothers to be embroidered, so they passed on from generation to generation.

It can be said that the embroidered clothes of various auspicious patterns are full of the love and warmth of their mothers, even as a kind of writing, recording the various entrustment of their parents to their children.

In fact, this is not the first time Xie Feng has gone to the Miao village. The first few times he went to collect folk songs and did not have a particularly clear idea until this time he met the "old man" in the Miao village.

Holding an old embroidered dress, she told Xie Feng the story, talked about the history and Humanities of Miao people, and let Xie Feng feel deeply. So, we have this press conference with Miao embroidery as the source of inspiration and "listening" as the theme.

In 2006, Xie Feng took the first place in the mainland as the designer of the international fashion week, and walked out of the country with a sense of national responsibility.

If the mission at that time was given to him in a particular historical environment, this time he once again mounted a sense of mission on Paris.

The stage to show the world

Miao embroidery, a traditional handicraft that is on the verge of being lost, is a spontaneous action of a responsible Chinese designer from the bottom of his heart.

Turning Chinese culture into world language

There are many kinds of embroidery in China. Miao embroidery is the only one that has not been commercialized. Although it is a handicraft, but because it can not earn money, the young people nowadays prefer to go out to work and do not want to learn Miao embroidery without commercial value, which directly leads to the verge of extinction of Miao embroidery.

When Xie Feng heard this from the "Ke" old man, he thought in his heart to save this lost handicraft and help the local people to live on this kind of embroidery.

As a fashion designer, the most direct way is to create a modern culture through its own creativity.

The language is presented so that people all over the world know the existence of such an excellent culture.

And this is exactly what he is best at.

"My design feature has always been the combination of Chinese traditional culture and fashion.

I hope to turn Chinese culture into a language acceptable to the whole world. This process has been the direction of my efforts over the past decade, including my previous publication in Paris, and in this spirit is how to turn Chinese culture into a world language. This is the same with Miao embroidery.

Xie Feng said.

It is reported that the clothing on this conference has used a large number of Miao embroidery elements, such as some auspicious patterns with Miao customs. This culture and elements have also become a main thread throughout the press conference.

Xie Feng shows the greatness of Chinese handicrafts through fashion. This is one of the purposes of this Paris conference.

The style of all costumes is the nostalgic route, mainly based on the elegance of the 20s of last century, and the color is very elegant.

This style originates from the movie "the great Gatsby". Xie Feng said that the film has been making eighth replays, showing the special elegance of life in the 20s.

Of course, more importantly, this slow pace of graceful life has much in common with the life of Miao village.

"Why do we miss the elegance of the past? It is because the pace of life is too fast and too commercial now. We have forgotten the slow and slow pace of life."

Xie Feng said that such a show also expressed his admiration for the 20s of last century.

Miao embroidery is a very original culture. In order to make this culture more vivid, Xie Feng has tried many ways to make the conference full of cultural flavor more plentiful besides doing the best on clothes.

For example, the music of the show took the original music of Zhu Zheqin, the representative of Chinese new music, which is also a world's first music single.

In addition, he is also preparing to invite some Miao Niang to embroider the technique in Paris, so that people can see the technique of Miao embroidery at a distance.

Display Oriental Art in Paris

Xie Feng had been in Paris for a long time before she made the JEFEN BY FRANKIE brand. So there was a Paris complex in her heart, and this is the world fashion center. So, several of his shows went to Paris fashion week.

But it is also a great pressure to make a press conference on such a master's stage.

Publishing in China can also draw on some popular elements of Paris fashion week or Milan fashion week. As long as it is beautifully done, it will be reported and published by the media, and it will not resonate if you display your works in the fashion center of the world, if there is no culture accumulation and can lead the future.

When pressure comes to pressure, Xie Feng has his own way.

Following his mental journey of fashion distribution in Paris, we can easily find that whether it is opening the "gate" series of Paris's top fashion doors, presenting them.

The "road" series of styles brings the world Chinese movement and elegant "Xiang" series, the series of "harmony" that shows Chinese artists and written arts to the world, and the "the Peach Garden" series that let the world know the Chinese "ideal state". It is also a series of "listening" to carry forward the Chinese embroidery culture. He always finds inspiration from a very macro and even some very profound cultural factors, and interprets a new concept.

Only such works with Chinese cultural roots and modern common fashion language will be more easily recognized and welcomed by the international world.

It has been a few years since the first time I went up to Paris fashion, but now I recall that the tension is just like yesterday.

"After a press conference to show off Chinese culture, after being crowned" the first Chinese clothing brand in Paris Fashion Week ", I represent not only myself, but also a country.

Xie Feng said.

Gobach, former chairman of the High Fashion Association, said at the time that it had the same meaning as American designer landing in Paris fashion week in 1973.

The Agence France-Presse commented: "China's tiger in the world's textile industry, because its first designer participated in the fashion week in Paris, has opened an incision in the fashion industry, attracting worldwide attention."

It is inevitable that such an important incident will cause nervousness.

It is worth celebrating that he has succeeded.

Paris fashion week achieved Xie Feng, and the world also learned about Chinese clothing and culture through Xie Feng's creation.

After that, the 4 press conference held in Paris fashion week, including the JEFEN BY FRANKIE 2013 spring and summer fashion conference with "listening" as the theme, without heavy hats, Xie Feng would be much more relaxed.

Although he also shoulders the mission of displaying China's excellent traditional culture, he understands that this mission is the responsibility that designers must go abroad.

This is why he overcame a variety of difficulties, insisted on making a conference in Paris and taking Paris as a window to display Chinese culture.