Interview With Wu Haiyan, China's Top Fashion Designer

A pair of black frame glasses, a beige cotton shirt, no red lips, no sharp heel shoes, Wu Haiyan's body with time after carving and quiet and wise. In fashion design for 30 years, Hai Yan Wu With numerous award-winning works, from the West Lake to the stage center of Chinese fashion design art, it has accepted the examination and applause and flowers of the world. But the personal brilliance of the stage did not satisfy Wu Haiyan, and after the applause, she slowly calmed down.

　 Hai Yan Wu

Top fashion designers in China

Dean and Professor, School of design, The China Academy of Art

Vice president of China Fashion Designers Association

Part of Wu Haiyan's resume

In 1993, the heyday was the only gold award of the first China International Youth costume designer competition.

In 1995, he was selected as the first China top ten fashion designer.

In 1995, it was praised as the first of China's "five best" fashion designers by Japanese Asahi weekly.

In 1997, he was named China's first "golden list" designer second, the first place in the news rankings.

In 1998, at the invitation of the State Council, I designed a dress for my wife, Mrs. Kim Dae-jung.

In 1999, as an outstanding representative of Chinese fashion designers, he took part in the Chinese costume culture exhibition featuring "99 Paris China Culture Week" organized by UNESCO.

In 2000, Wu Haiyan's clothing design Co., Ltd., named after his name was set up in Beijing.

In 2001, the designer won the Golden Summit Award from China Fashion Association and China Fashion Designers Association.

In 2006, we designed 120 sets of creative costumes based on Hangzhou silk as the main theme of the Chr (34) world river Fang Chr (34) large-scale fashion show, and demonstrated the ultimate charm of Chr (34) Oriental Silk Chr (34).

Act as School of design, The China Academy of Art President, she is more and more convinced that China needs a number of top and thoughtful designers to bring more designers at the public level to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Since then, talent training and trend research have become a pivotal task for Wu Haiyan. In this exclusive interview, Mr. Wu Haiyan introduced to us the team of fashion trends in The China Academy of Art Textile Institute and recent research results.

Reporter: what kind of team is your trend research organization?

Wu Haiyan: the fashion trend of the Textile Institute of The China Academy of Art is not just the The China Academy of Art. It also has high tech talents, postdoctoral students and so on in Polytechnic University, University of science and technology, and other regions. It should be said that this is a very large team, our research team has nearly 80 people, I am the host of this team.

Reporter: is this the research team that has become popular in recent years?

Wu Haiyan: No, because we participated in China in 95 years. clothing Fashion trend. We have been walking around the world for 95 years. For example, Paris's PV fabrics and fashion trends have been used for more than 10 years to inspect Frankfurt's international home textiles, Italy's Udine, including some important exhibitions in Japan. It is time to go all over the world to explore the laws of the trend of the world, but in theory, we have not yet found a complete theoretical system.

Reporter: so in the absence of a complete theoretical system, have we found out certain rules?

Wu Haiyan: nearly twenty years of research, we have explored a set of regular things, research systems such as we have large plates, the first is basic research, second is prediction research, third is design research, and research and applied research. The trend is a huge system. Not only are you drawing a few pictures, but I have a basic research team from this team. It is from the International Year's political trend and cultural trend of thought, the economic flow curve and so on. We come back to reflect on what will happen in the future. There is also a summary of art design. We have a group of professional creative teams.

Reporter: what are the main contents of basic research you mentioned just now?

Wu Haiyan: in the basic research, we also focus on the Chinese market for Chinese brands, different markets, such as fabric market, clothing market, high school and low market. It is predicted that we have a group of mature designers and mature academic teams who are mature in teaching design, and discuss future trends with designers in the enterprises. Then, some designs are combined with some industries of the Hangzhou government. The first from 03 years to some industries in Haining, later with some home textile associations in China, and Shanghai, Beijing's Home Textile Expo trend, now do Haining leather trend and Hangzhou silk trend.

Reporter: what are your research results?

Wu Haiyan: we summed up a lot of experience, to achieve internationalization, and feedback is very good, and the global economic structure and some of China's brand trends are very consistent. This year's leather trend is related to Saint Martin and other schools in the United Kingdom, as well as with the company's brand collaboration, including fabric front-end creativity and fabric color composition, including clothing samples. The first is the popular Handbook, and the other is dynamic and static. I hope you can see it in October this year.

Reporter: what are the recent trends in books?

Wu Haiyan: I brought two books today. One is "2014/15 autumn winter China leather fur clothing fashion trend", one is "2015 spring summer Chinese silk fashion trend". "2014/15 autumn winter China leather fur clothing fashion trend" project is sponsored by the Haining municipal government, The China Academy of Art textile and garment Institute and dyeing and weaving and clothing design department. It is divided into four themes: "science and technology, emotion, symbiosis and future". The "2015 spring and summer Chinese silk fashion trend" project is sponsored by the Organizing Committee of China silk Expo. Hangzhou silk culture center and brand research center, The China Academy of Art Design Institute, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Fashion Institute, Zhejiang Kaixin Ya international, Jin Fuchun group, Dali (China), Mu Rui network technology Co., Ltd., Wan Gu textile and Hangzhou Silk Textile Association jointly undertake four themes: "crossing", "Chaowei", "boundless" and "survival".