APEC Designer Chu Yan: Bring You Back To Datang To Appreciate Datang Costumes

This series of stunning works comes from

Chu Yan's hand, and she was also the leader of APEC in 2014.

The designer.

Her works are famous for her deep understanding and precise expression of Chinese traditional culture.

She loves traditional culture and is keen to convey this love to this society.

And through education.

Yes, Chu Yan has another identity. She is Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology.

Associate professor of department.

Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology is currently one of the most important art design institutes in China.

It was founded in 1959. It was formerly known as Beijing Textile Institute of technology. It was renamed Beijing Chemical Fiber Engineering Institute in 1961 and changed to Beijing in 1987.

College.

Since its beginning, Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology has learned from a school of engineering, including fabric design and technology, to today's comprehensive institutions including fashion design, fashion show, fashion media and so on. It can be said that with the development of the times, the North dress is constantly expanding and changing its vocation and mission.

In recent years, the revival of national culture has been paid more and more attention.

In the field, the traditional regression has gradually formed the upsurge. Local clothing manufacturers have set up the brand of "Chinese style", but they have both the Chinese traditional culture and the fashion of the public.

North clothing continues to play its leading role in the development of the industry. Under the leadership of Chu Yan and other northern dress teaching staff, a new profession was born, called clothing inheritance and innovation.

Chu Yan was initially worried about the establishment of this profession. She loved the traditional culture, but was not sure whether her students, those who were born in the Internet age and those who were born in the Internet age, were willing to enter the history, whether they would like to know the aesthetic development process of the ancient country, and whether they could appreciate the thick and solid beauty of the 95.

In 2015, the specialty of inheritance and innovation was formally established, and it was put together with many other mature majors of Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology, so that more than 500 sophomore students would choose to sign up voluntarily.

As a result, Chu Yun's expectation was that only 15 students had passed the course of inheritance and innovation, and the number of applicants was the largest.

Chu Yan did not know why these students were so active. Did she, like her, have seen some old photos of her family, attracted by the rigour of the collar and the elegance of the robe.

In October 28, 2015, during the China International Fashion Week, a series of works entitled "Jue color" was held in the central hall of Beijing Hotel.

Those who were there that night were almost surprised by the visual feast. They realized that classical China could also be so modern, even in the present.

Aesthetics.

Later, Chu Yan took the first class of the 15 carefully selected students. She asked them who had read the dream of Red Mansions, and no one raised their hands.

Chu Yan is helpless, but the curriculum must continue.

So she and other theoretical teachers worked together to design lessons to help these children overcome their traditional cultural knowledge.

From the history of clothing to the history of aesthetics, from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, from Li Bai to Su Dongpo, from porcelain to painting, from tea ceremony to Cuju, teachers not only teach, but also let students collect and collate materials according to their own subjects, understand the background of the times, experience the way of life, and grasp the track of the aesthetics of the times.

The surprise of Chu Yan is that the progress of the students is leaping. They may not have enough cultural accumulation, but they are full of enthusiasm, enthusiasm and willingness to endure hardships.

In the field of inheritance and innovation, it is common for students to work overtime and stay up late to do homework.

From the beginning, they didn't even make designs and effects. After that, they could design the finished products with the theme of "tea" and display them internationally.

Of course, Chu Yan thought that the international exhibition was to catch the duck on the shelf, but she had begun to worry about it, and had confidence in her students.

But Chu Yan does not want her students to come back in ancient times. What she hopes is that they can master the modern methods, innovate the traditional culture and restore the vitality of the Chinese beauty.

Because we have had a break, so we need to inherit, we need to feel ourselves.

The beauty and beauty in culture need to rebuild cultural confidence.

Western things are beautiful and worth learning, but we need to learn not the superficial trend, but a way to inherit the local culture.

The famous Dunhuang Academy of Arts has recently produced a batch of porcelain, which has made bold innovations on the traditional basis.

Chu Yan saw it and was shocked by the effect.

The innovative design of the Dunhuang Institute is a collaboration with an English school called the crown prince College of traditional arts, founded by Prince Charles.

It focuses on mining and sorting out the traditional cultures of different nations in different countries. At the same time, they summarize a very scientific and effective way to create innovative designs combined with patterns.

Next, Professor Chu Yan's inheritance and innovation major will also work with this distinctive art academy. She is full of expectations for the results.