Interview Designer Liu Yang

First seen in TIT Creative Industrial Park, Guangzhou

It's in his studio.

However, although the reporter had imagined many kinds of images in his mind before he interviewed him, Liu Yang, who was first seen, was a fashionable and steady person, but he was totally different from Liu Yang, who was a rebel and a character in his mind.

In a two hour interview, Liu Yang, who is calm, has repeatedly stressed the two words of "responsibility".

Having experienced the clamour and glory of teenage fame, giving up and returning at the peak of the career, and now rushing around to persist in the training of talents for fashion designers, frankly speaking, Liu Yang, who is very satisfied, has seen himself after precipitation.

30 years ago, he came to Guangzhou from Henan and was in the country since then.

The design world is a blockbuster.

In the northern city of Luoyang, where the peony is blooming, Liu Yang is always the only Chinese man in the fashion world in Guangzhou, a brilliant southern city of kapok.

The first work on the road is full of Henan flavor.

From 4 years old, from Beijing to Henan, and then to the age of 14, she went down to Guangzhou. Liu Yang spent more than 10 years of happy childhood in Henan.

Although his family moved to Guangzhou now, he seldom returned to Henan, but when Liu Yang recalled the influence of Henan on him, he still couldn't help himself.

In the early 90s of last century, Liu Yang held the first personal fashion conference in Guangzhou. The Taiwan media exclaimed: "the mainland also has such bold design! Liu Yang has become the focus of fashion, and has been called" filled "by the media.

A blank man with stars.

He still remembered his first fashion conference, which was to make Mini miniskirt with a beautiful peony pattern sheet, so that the handsome male model could be dressed in colorful Western Paeonia and the fashionable shorts, which was very avant-garde at that time.

Like some other elements with strong Henan characteristics, Liu Yang used it when he first started.

His first MTV, "sentiment" recorded in 1995, once won a comprehensive award in CCTV's competition, and there were many pictures of peony in it.

In his MTV, there was such a scene: he came from the Longmen Grottoes of Luoyang, then ran on the boundless loess land, a man carrying a lonely bag, and then headed for the ocean step by step.

He also remembered that in his early works, there was a local clog made of straw rope in Henan and put on the foot of the model.

In his works, peony, Longmen Grottoes, frescoes and so on have appeared many times, and become the main melody of his early works. It is these Henan characteristics that let him shine brilliantly in the Chinese fashion world and finally go to the world.

Liu Yang has become the representative of the avant-garde style of Chinese fashion industry with his strong personality design. He has been accused of being overly westernized and has no national style.

Therefore, the understanding of "China concept" has become an important theme of his design thinking in recent years.

"In China, people say I am very foreign, but foreigners say I am very" China ".

Liu Yang said that the ethnicity of fashion is not simply a design of ancient costume and symbolic design, but to reflect the life concept and lifestyle of modern Chinese, designers can only interpret the national character in the fashion of flow and change.

"Only by grasping the popular premise of the world, can we blend the culture of the nation into the world".

Liu Yang said that it was precisely because of the early Central Plains culture that impressed him deeply that his national characteristics of his works were unwittingly emitted, and he was the first to convey a Chinese designer's aesthetic thought to the international community.

Guangzhou people are industrious, hospitable and tolerant.

In 1998, Liu Yang reached the peak of his career. He not only won the highest award of Chinese designers, but also was named "the ten outstanding young people in Guangzhou", and won the title of Guangdong's first exceptional promotion to senior fashion designer.

Liu Yang is now one of China's most influential fashion designers in the world, but Liu Yang still thanks Guangzhou for his growth, fame and maturity.

"Guangzhou is like a seed. Everyone can take root when they come here."

In addition to his impressive childhood and youth in Henan, he likened Guangzhou to his "second home".

"Now if I meet someone who says Guangzhou is not good, I will be anxious with him. I will tell him what Guangzhou is good for."

He believed that it was the hardworking, hospitable and tolerant people of Guangzhou who brought him home to Guangzhou when he was a boy.

Just as honor, flowers, money and career flourished, Liu Yang decided to go to the United States to continue to dream.

"If you want to be an international professional fashion designer, you should go abroad and feel different cultures all over the world," he said.

4 years later, Liu Yang, who returned overseas, completed his return to Beijing in a perfect children's wear show in the capital city.

In many people's eyes, Liu Yang is fashionable and fashionable, but in fact, he is still very Chinese.

So 10 years after he took the American green card, he made another "Treason" act that everyone had been shocked at that time.

"Then I came to the American Consulate and gave them 10 years of green cards."

Speaking of this event, which was regarded as a very important event by friends, Liu Yang was very calm. At that time, the staff of the US consulate were amazed, and the reason for returning the green card was puzzled. Liu Yang said very calmly, "for the sake of two mothers, one is my mother and the other is my motherland, because they need me more."

"If I go to America for money, it doesn't make any sense."

In the astonishment of others, Liu Yang chose to return to Guangzhou.

Young people should not be anxious to be famous.

In the eyes of ordinary people, designers are personalities and dress styles.

Even in the eyes of other designers, whenever Liu Yang appears in any place, it is a conspicuous landscape that is designed everywhere.

But now, the two most common words on Liu Yang's lips are "responsibility".

Therefore, despite the far away from the image of rebellious and personalities of famous fashion designers in the impression of reporters, Liu Yang said frankly: "after a certain experience, clothes can be avant-garde, but the heart should be more introverted."

He said he was really too forward when he first started.

It can be said that when Liu Yang was young, he had to get wind and rain.

However, as the years went on, he became more and more aware of the importance of "two words of responsibility".

He also said that a person's clothes can reflect a state, but now he is thinking more about the meaning of life.

Especially after his father died 3 years ago, he had a great blow to him and made him feel more about life and his family.

Now Liu Yang, not only runs his own high-end brand of Liu Yang, but also prepares China's first TV series featuring fashion design, and acts as a screenwriter, starring, costume designer and art director.

Soon, he also crossed the border to endorse the first domestic brand Baer Ryder ironing machine, and personally participated in the design. "Some people say I am not doing my job. In fact, I think this is the responsibility of a fashion person. I always believe that art will not cross the border and will die."

As a Buddhist, Liu Yang now has a calm mind and a good heart.

"It is also good to dress the society in beauty. I think this is also a responsibility."

What Liu Yang is talking about most is "responsibility", including responsibility for the society, the family and the profession.

To this responsibility, Liu Yang, who earned his fame and went to advanced studies in the United States, finally returned from America with his dream.

"I know more and more about what is" life creation ".

Skills can be learned, but the perception of life, the perception of human nature, the perception of the soul of clothing, but it needs your heart and soul experience. "

Liu Yang's life is very busy now, but he thinks it's worth it.

In recent years, he has been reflecting on precipitation, and personally advised young designers to practice basic skills and not be eager to become famous.

He confessed that he was too young to be famous.

Now the greater the influence, the more aware of the responsibility on the shoulders.

No matter how busy he is, he is making great efforts to train young designers.

Talking about the feeling of Henan, he said: "the earth shaking changes have taken place in Henan. I hope my hometown life will be more and more beautiful. In the future, no matter where I go to the world, I will not change my love for my hometown."