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In May of this year, U.S.A state Qing Hilllary Clinton To visit World Expo, Shanghai, through the United States Shanghai At the consulate general, she received a gift from me: a beautiful one. cheongsam 。 The cheongsam was as beautiful and beautiful as she was ten years ago. This is the second time Hilary has put on my own hands. Design The cheongsam made.

　　 1 recommendations of the campaign team

In other words, it goes back to 2000, when Hilllary Clinton, the first lady of the United States, ran for New York senator. In those days, she staged a stage in a blue blue cheongsam, and at once killed many Chinese Americans and their votes. This cheongsam is specially tailored for her.

Why did Hilary wear a cheongsam to run for New York senator? It was her advisor's suggestion: if you wear Chinese national dress Qipao, the votes of Chinese Americans will be very favorable. Hilary readily accepted the proposal. So her campaign team immediately began to look for this Chinese designer running for cheongsam.

It is said that after repeated comparison, I was honored to be selected by them. Because the cheongsam designed by me just appeared in the "2000 Shanghai International Costume Culture Festival" that just closed, and they saw it.

On that day, a Chinese American who was originally from Shanghai (a member of the Hilary campaign team) found me. He opened the door and said, "Miss Li, I suggest you design a cheongsam for high-level people, such as the first lady of the United States Hilary..." I was a little confused when I heard this. He told me without any delay: "Hilary wants to run for senator in New York, hoping to make a" campaign dress "-- Chinese cheongsam.

It turned out that I was so excited that it was very important to design cheongsam for the first lady of the United States. If Hilary showed the Chinese cheongsam to the whole world through the TV media in the campaign, this is not only the glory of our Chinese fashion designers, but also the opportunity for our Chinese cheongsam to make an excellent appearance on the world stage. I immediately said that I should do my best.

　　 2 cheongsam " Sponsor Hilary

In order to make clothes, we usually need to "measure the body" before we can "tailor". But Hilary is in a respecting position and far away in the United States. I can only ask Hilary carefully about the height, weight, size and so on. On the spot, I also learned an important message: Hilary likes blue. Of course, I know the importance of color for women. For women, if the color is not right, the style is no good. But blue is divided into dark blue, light blue, lake blue, sky blue, crystal blue and so on. What kind of blue is Hilary's favorite? When asked, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "we don't know this."

I can only think about it slowly. Next, I searched the Internet for background information about Hilary, watching Hilary's TV video, and trying to figure out her temperament and preferences. Finally, I make a judgement based on my intuition: this blue should not be blue or dark blue, but a mature and elegant treasure blue: This is in line with the first lady's taste.

On that day, I went to Xujiahui's "Silk king" to buy Fabrics. When I picked it up and finally picked up a piece of pure blue silk fabric to settle the bill, the salesman said casually to me, "do you like the blue color too? This is Mrs. Clinton's favorite color of Mrs. Hilary. Last time she came to Shanghai, she bought the silk fabric of color. The salesperson did not know who I was buying for the fabric, but her words really delighted me. Perhaps it is the Providence, of course, is fate.

The material is selected, and the next is the most obvious design. In the design, we should combine the elements of "campaign" and Hilary's preferences as well as Chinese customs. In the whole design process, I poured all my heart into it: pushing away all my daily work, keeping myself at home, constantly modifying the design plan, and pushing it back several times, almost to the point where I could forget all about sleep and sleep. When finalized, the whole portrait was hollowed out. All my efforts are crystallized in this work. The biggest highlight of this cheongsam is: making 2000NY (New York) with Chinese knot and expressing the word "V" of victory. And aiming at the characteristics of Western women's tall and open style, they specially change the fully closed neckline into V shape. The creative design made many of my old tailors peer admiringly. Some say, the collar is very high behind, the collar is tall and noble; some say that the design of Chinese knot has Chinese characteristics and campaign elements. Their recognition made me confident.

When the cheongsam was sent to Hilary, I was reluctant to part with it, as if I had to give away the hard nurtured child. It is this cheongsam that lets Hilary have an elegant demeanor in the election campaign and adds affinity to Chinese voters. Chinese voters have voted for Hilary, and she has won the "sponsorship". To this end, Hilary wrote me a thank-you letter: "Dear Ms. Li: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much for your special costume for my 2000 campaign victory. Best wishes! Hilary. This letter has been carefully preserved: it is not only a recognition of my craft, but also a testimony to the friendship between China and the United States.

In May of this year, Secretary of state Hilary visited World Expo, Shanghai in 2010. I sent her a cheongsam carefully designed to be "Mei Kai two degrees".

 

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For Hilary to design cheongsam, "one shot", more and more people have made their own cheongsam, and Qiongyao and Jin Yuxi have become my guests. People thought I was a professional cheongsam designer, but no one would have thought that designing cheongsam was actually a "halfway house".

Looking back, the mood is still heavy. In 1998, over half a year, I suffered from a series of misfortune such as the loss of her daughter and her husband's divorce. At that time, I was the head of the bee flower troupe and the soloist. I was disappointed by the changes in my life. At this time, my friend suggested that I should open a cheongsam specialty store. Maybe he wanted me to change my mood. Considering it over and over again, I agree. Cheongsam is a unique clothing culture in China. It is called "national costume". As a female, I always have a liking for cheongsam. When my daughter was alive, she had predicted that I would become a gold medal costume designer. Because my daughter's clothes from small to large are mostly designed and made by me. I am engaged in the design of cheongsam. I also fulfill my daughter's expectation in heaven, and place my fondly yearning for my daughter.

In the age of "blue ocean", Chinese women's clothes are almost identical, but the beauty of people's hearts will not vanish. Clever women will try their best to beautify themselves by wearing "flower heads". If they do not dare to show their limelight, they will place the pursuit of beauty on their children. I am also such a woman.

In the 70s of last century, I made a dress for my daughter. I have two white sling for this scarlet dress and some small flowers. The contrast between red and white is like the strong colors of the Impressionist school. In those days, such a dress was a bit shocking. When my daughter was four or five years old, I made her a coat. In the front of my coat, I embroidered a bunch of beautiful flowers with cashmere. Every time my daughter goes out wearing a coat, she will bring a lot of envious eyes. I am very proud of it, because people will think: this little girl has a clever mother.

　　 Four Qiong Yao I was very satisfied.

Now that we decide to make cheongsam, we must learn fashion design. I packed my schoolbag and entered the fashion design class of China Textile University (now Donghua University), studying fashion design.

Together with those "children and children" classmates, I started the "big student". I treasure this hard won "charging" opportunity, carrying a picture clip and carrying a lunch box every day to school. I do not have any basis for painting, but years of art accumulation make me quickly realize the "feeling" of costume art. In the whole year of spinning, I learned a lot of professional knowledge. At the end of the year, I obtained the senior designer qualification certificate with excellent results.

After leaving the school, I started all the research and exchange center of Xia Fang Qipao Co., Ltd. and Xia Fang Chinese dress research center. In the next two or three years, I designed hundreds of cheongsam.

In 2000, I won the only two World Awards at the Beijing international aviation clothing and accessories fair. In 1999~2001 years, I won the "famous clothing brand award" for 3 consecutive times at the Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival.

In 2000, the TV series "rain in deep rain" was filmed in Shanghai for two episodes, but Qiong Yao was dissatisfied with the actor's costume. The crew was so worried that they suddenly remembered that they had seen the reports about me and cheongsam in the newspaper, so they called me by a phone call. I told them that I would like to see my costume show in Shanghai tomorrow. If you are satisfied, we will sign the contract again. They watched the performance and immediately wrapped the cheongsam of almost all the actors in the rain. At first, I only ordered 20 cheongsam to me. Later, because Qiong Yao was very satisfied, he added more than 50 sets to me. Gradually, people began to call me "cheongsam Queen".

　　 5 beautiful women walk down the calendar

In order to let more people understand Qipao, especially the style of Cheongsam in Shanghai style, when my "Xia Fang Qipao" has a reputation, I transferred my mind to the cheongsam stage show.

I set up the "cheongsam queen Art Troupe" and recruited a group of "beautiful women" as models. I think that the best way to inherit the intangible cultural heritage such as Shanghai style cheongsam is performance. If we build a stage drama with "Shanghai style cheongsam" and match it with music narrator, we will be more attractive from the angles of vision and hearing.

My "Xia Fang Qipao show" takes Jiangnan gardens, Shikumen as the scenery and national music as the foil to show the elegant style of the five hundred or six hundred cheongsam. The performances are divided into 20 parts: cross streets, fancy years, golden seasons, and mist and flowers. Children, girls and middle-aged women turn around. The design is also ingenious, with traditional patterns such as plum orchid and bamboo chrysanthemum, and modern accessories such as bags and shawls. Besides, it also made bold use of transparent yarn to make cheongsam, with both underwear show and cheongsam show.

In 2004, the French and Chinese culture year was held in Paris, France. I was honored to be invited to attend the opening and closing ceremonies. I displayed the "Xia Fang Qipao show" on the Senna River, and the French audience was fascinated. What moved me most was that when the cheongsam show was halfway up, it suddenly began to rain heavily, but the audience still stood motionless in the rain. They looked at them with a silly face, but they did not care. Their faces were full of surprises and admiration for the eastern cheongsam. "Chinese cheongsam is the same as French fashion, OK!" An old French tailor held my thumbs in the Pidgin Chinese.

In March 2007, the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party held 38 celebration activities at the Democratic Party building to invite our art troupe to perform. When discussing the plan, the women leaders of the Democratic Progressive party suddenly thought that they wanted to wear cheongsam to show a show. What a great idea! I immediately said, "hundreds of Cheongsam in our warehouse will be selected for you."

On the 38 day, when nearly ten women cadres walked into the stage with beautiful troupes and art troupes, they immediately caused a sensation. People say, "I can't imagine how beautiful our female leaders are!"

Our performance often infected the audience with "involuntarily". Once, the female boss of the Century Park watched the performance, excitedly held our hands, repeatedly expressed her appreciation, and invited us to perform in the century park. A knowledgeable publishing woman cadre went to the stage to see me after watching the show, saying, "I can hardly touch my performance, but your performance really gives me heartbeat. I also want to join your team. " Some spectators signed up for our "show" training class after seeing the performance. Gentle and elegant Oriental women and elegant elegant cheongsam is a natural match. The cheongsam is the most beautiful!

At 2010 The World Expo On the other hand, our art troupe displayed the elegance of the cheongsam queen in the public participation hall, showing the grace and beauty of Chinese women to the tourists from all over the world.

"Silk Road rain" ten years, I experienced hardships, but more grateful. What I am most grateful for is that my career has been strongly supported by all sectors of society. The comrades of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of culture and culture and the Xuhui District intangible cultural heritage office have the obligation to make plans for our art troupe and become think-tank. Some famous models at home and abroad also do not pay the price. They voluntarily join the performance of the cheongsam Queen's Art Troupe. Xuhui and Luwan cultural Bureau also make free performances for the art troupe. In 2007, we declared "Shanghai style cheongsam" as the intangible cultural heritage of the city, and I was also selected as an excellent inheritor.

The cheongsam Queen's Art Troupe blended with costumes, dance, folk music, folk songs and operas reflected the unique style of Shanghai's city. Someone once said, "they are beautiful women who walk down from the calendar cards of old Shanghai. This will become a city card of Shanghai."

I have an ambition: if we want to see the "Moulin Rouge" performance in France, then let's see our "Queen's cheongsam show" in Shanghai.