Designer Qiao Qi: Staying In Britain For 10 Years To Find A Dream

Qiao Qi grew up in Xiamen. As an important partner of Choci's childhood growth, her mother brought all kinds of fashion magazines to accompany her through countless afternoon. "When I was five or six years old, I read mostly clothing magazines, such as" Elle "," Cosmopolitan "and so on. Qiao Qi's mother will usually take her out shopping and ask her for help. Though young, Choci's sensitivity to fashion seems to be innate. The subtle influence of her life, inadvertently, initially began to germinate in the bottom of her heart.

As the apple of the family, Qiao Qi's parents have great affection for her daughter, and they also give her high hopes and want to send her abroad for further study. After careful consideration, the United States and Britain became the expectations of the whole family. "My parents feel that the two most famous schools in the world can provide a more comprehensive and quality education." To this end, the mother also ran to the United States personally, from the teaching level to the local living conditions in all aspects of the inspection of the school.

What the family did not expect was that the British school came earlier than the United States to the admission notice, and even after completing the examination and completing the visa, the admission notice of the American school came. So Joe, 14, set off on a journey to London and came to London. Compared with the similarly fashionable Italy Milan, France Paris and the United States New York, Choci has a nearly obsession with London: "I think London is the only fashion, outside London is the village."

After arriving in England, Qiao Qi completed the GCSE, A-level and the art preparatory course of Kent College of art and design. "Since junior high school and high school are in London, I feel that I have been here enough to go to another place, so I went to Kent to read matriculation."

In 2004, with more than four years of solid foundation, Qiao Qi was admitted to the College of fashion engineering, University of the Arts in London. After stepping into the school of dreams, Qiao Qi breathed a sigh of relief and enjoyed the free life after years of hard reading. On the way to school, she looked at people wearing different passages and constantly receiving them. Fashion elements In my heart, I enjoyed it very much.

Sophomore Qiao Qi began to practice many different designer brands, and eventually stayed in Alexander McQueen studio. At the beginning of Alexander McQueen studio, Jochi attached great importance to the job. Qiao Qi said: "at 9 in the morning, lunch at 2 noon, but at night time is 9 hours, and no dinner time, workload and pressure are quite large."

It is precisely this year that has fully cultivated her management and creativity. Qiao Chi has independently produced a huge display board for displaying costumes, a team that manages forty people. "Although the interns are being squeezed indefinitely, I think this is a double-edged sword, and it is actually a question of responsibility. If you think you want to learn something and want to take responsibility for what you do, then don't let yourself go.

In 2009, Qiao Qi, who had been away from China for ten years, decided to return home. After half a year's adjustment and rest, Qiao Qi, who was familiar with the current situation of Chinese costume design, went to Shanghai and found a job related to costume design.

"This side. Design concept Everyone's sense of clothing is totally different from what I feel in Alexander McQueen studio. " Five months later, Qiao Qi chose to leave and finally returned to Beijing.

In 2012 Qiao Qi founded his own in Beijing. Design brand And released her first season design in September 2013. Qiao Qi has a unique preference for Chinese folk traditional aesthetics. In order to learn this Crochet skill and inspire her creation, she ran around all the neighborhood committees in her neighborhood, and finally found a 58 year old elder sister to cooperate with her. "As far as I know, no one else is doing Crochet art, except for me. This is my style. This is what I insist on.

After returning home, Qiao Chi chose "deceleration". In order to lead fashion and ensure quality at the same time, her brand still maintains two seasons a year, but it takes longer for each quarter. For the rest of her time, she likes to collect folk songs or to pick fabrics around the world. She said: "I want to be slow and stable brand, so the brand temperament has its natural smell. Good clothes speak for themselves, and there will be people who know her.

Qiao Qi is now integrating the concept of "walking into life" into "fashion design", but she emphasizes that clothing is still her lifelong career. Qiao Qi walked along all the way, metamorphosis, in the ordinary gradually extraordinary. "I stayed in England for ten years, which is a critical period for my values. The greatest wealth that I have ever studied abroad is the habit I developed in England: persisting in dreams and never satisfied with them.