Designer Yang Jie'S "Suyi" Has Attracted Much Attention In Beijing Fashion Week.

2016 Beijing

The most anticipated show ended last night.

As a teacher at Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology, Yang Jie was with his teacher.

The field is the same as a model: he is the head of Beijing Men's clothing design department, and is China's top ten.

The designer has an absolute right to speak. He is also an exceptionally good designer, bringing the seeds of Chinese culture to the international soil and nurturing it so as to make it grow rapidly.

Born into a unique culture of Miao people, Yang Jie is full of national wind and totem patterns. After studying at Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology, he went to Italy IED Europe Design Institute to further his studies. He was the first Chinese designer to receive IED full award.

In his body, he combined many styles and elements, and then visited the length of his family.

Yang Jie's resume is basically the same as textbooks.

You must be impressed by the costumes worn by the torchbearers of the 08 Beijing Olympic Games? That's what Yang Jie created.

You must have seen and remembered the national events of the 70th anniversary parade in the victory of the war of resistance against Japan? Yes, the flying costume of the air force performing flying team, known as "the most beautiful military uniform in the air force", was also from Yang Jiezhi's hand.

With such accumulation, Yang Jie created his own "Xi Xiu" brand and integrated Chinese and Western fashion.

At the end of August this year, the twenty-first International Exhibition of Milan three annual exhibition and Yang Jie Xi Xiu's "Su Yi" fashion show were successfully concluded in Milan. The Milan three annual exhibition is the industry authority exhibition of the fashion design industry. Yang Jie has brought the beauty of China to the international stage, giving the world's attention to the beautiful Western painting.

On the press conference, the combination of Suzhou embroidery and China's best quality hand-made fabrics with different textures and different styles of production revolves from the original elegant skirt.

Yesterday, in the short period of less than a month from the three annual exhibition of Milan, Yang Jie's "Su Yi" show brightened the cool Beijing night.

Xiaobian was lucky enough to have an appointment with Mr. Yang Jie before the show.

G: Hello, Miss Yang.

We all know that you have a lot of brilliant achievements, such as the 08 year Olympic torch bearer, the 60th anniversary National Day parade and the 70th anniversary victory parade of the Chinese air force "81 flying show team" costume. This August Olympic Games in Milan three international exhibition will be a great show.

At the same time, as an excellent designer, you also have your own "Xi Xiu" brand. What opportunities do you have to make your decision to create your own brand?

Y: actually, there are years in design.

Every designer may have a work that he most wants to express in his mind, which is less likely to be interfered by outside business cooperation.

So, at the very beginning, we did a research on the southwest ethnic minorities, and then presented the excellent skills, flower patterns and handcraft techniques of the Southwest Minorities in their works.

As for the origin of "Xi Xiu" brand name, our original inspiration was "taking the beauty of Southwest China" and naming the brand "Xi Xiu".

"Xi" is the dawn, because we were in the innovation of the original culture and some of the international cognition of Chinese traditional cognition. We prefer to freeze it into a rising sun. It is a newborn state. We hope it will be like Chaoyang.

These fate, contingency and inevitability, finally presented the current "Xi Xiu".

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G: in the design, you have joined many Chinese elements, such as the design of cheongsam and totem patterns of some ethnic minorities. Is this related to your Miao nationality?

Y: Yes, it does matter.

In the course of my design, including my learning abroad, I am increasingly sending out to myself the question of who you are.

We need to recognize ourselves in this question and answer process.

When you talk with more people in the international arena on the international stage, if you are learning the west, you actually have no material to communicate with others.

We are constantly aware of who we are and where our cultural roots are.

Now we turn back to see the internationally successful designer and famous brands. They will find that their cultural roots are based on the experience of their own designers and the cultural foundation of the brand.

At this time, I found that my work has been showing rich colors. This feature is undoubtedly derived from my growing environment. These colors are inseparable from the natural environment of the Miao people's Qingshan Xiushui.

It is very simple for the design, and it is very simple to explain.

Because the pattern of the Miao nationality itself has a lot of richness, and there are many kinds of embroidery techniques. It is a very rare art treasure.

We have very good inherent conditions, so we have more responsibility to inherit and carry forward.

We are willing to better dig, recognize, innovate, and turn it into something that can be used as fashion in the international arena.

In the past, Miao embroidery, brocade, and naden dyes could be regarded as the art exhibited in museums, just passing on.

But I would think that Burberry has made England's lattice a fashion acceptable to the whole world. Its dissemination of culture is not limited to the level of a national culture, but it has spread to the world.

It can be imagined that the protection of national culture will become more valuable.

So we hope that we can see some changes in the future and even in the long run through our own bit by bit continuous efforts.

G: so people may not be fashionable.

Y: Well, in fact, national things are very fashionable in themselves.

G: you can feel that you have a liking for Chinese culture.

What do you think of Chinese culture? Can you describe Chinese culture in your mind with several words or several cultural symbols?

Y: Chinese culture is actually difficult to express with several key words or several cultural symbols.

Because Chinese culture is too extensive and profound.

Five thousand years of cultural accumulation, fifty-six nationalities, different nationalities in the long history of the accumulation of culture is different, so I think it is difficult to find out a few cultural symbols to summarize, and this is exactly the charm and ingenuity of Chinese culture.

This can completely prove that our culture is too broad, too good, too wonderful.

G: at the Beijing fashion week, your show is "Su Yi". Can you give a brief introduction to this show?

Y: "Suyi" is a broader attempt at Chinese culture.

In the past, we may constantly explore the cultural advantages of China's southwest minorities, including Miao, Dong, Tujia and so on, and turn them into fashion.

The "Suyi" of this time, as the name suggests, is an artistic conception of Suzhou.

Suzhou has been a gathering place of scholars since ancient times. It has a rich cultural background, and there are many elements that are very representative of the style of Jiangnan area in China, such as Suzhou gardens and cheongsam.

There are so many cultural and fashion genes in Suzhou that we are attracted to explore.

Therefore, I can only use the word "Yi" to cover the final theme. It represents a kind of artistic conception, which contains a lot of Suzhou culture.

We will display 50 works, which are divided into three series, which are displayed by 25 models, presenting a wonderful day in Suzhou.

We see orange and tint from Chaoyang and early morning. This series of works will show the handicraft of Suzhou embroidery on silk fabrics produced in Suzhou.

Gradually, more light and light began to appear, and then entered Suzhou at noon.

What is more clear is the style of Jiangnan Water Village, such as small bridges, water, trees, houses, painted walls, Dawa and all kinds of window frames, which are the most representative of Suzhou gardens. These elements will be reflected in the second series.

The second series of colors will be dominated by black and white Huizhou architecture, with some elements of Suzhou culture interwoven.

After watching the second series, we seem to hear Kunqu Opera in this artistic conception.

Along with the melodious Kunqu Opera, we are going to feel the beauty of the sunset glow with blue and purple tones.

The third series will have more brilliant colors, and the show will be at the end of the climax.

The "Suyi" show will be presented by 25 professional models through these three series and 50 sets of works.

G: it can be seen that this show is still very hierarchical, and the overall tone is more classical and Chinese style.

Y: classical may not be able to talk about it. There is indeed a classical aesthetic plot in it.

What we have been hoping to convey is a completely innovative thing.

When you see these works, whether they are men's or women's wear, it is true that they will have Chinese traditional culture factors, but they must be designed in the international perspective.

It is not a national or traditional replica, nor a stack of elements. It is a new thing that is scattered and reassembled.

G: we are really looking forward to your great show.

Finally, what is your expectation and direction for yourself and your brand in the future?

Y: I always believe that designer products must be calm and calm.

We will also go to different places to get inspiration every year, and really go to the birthplaces of ethnic minorities and traditional Chinese culture.

We often spend hours in the villages of Panshan road to find the most primitive and simple things.

In fact, this show will also see some of the Miao traditional Dong's most traditional handmade fabrics, which are used in our works, showing a very fashionable and vigorous vitality.

What we want for this brand is that it constantly excavates the culture while constantly spreading the sense of cultural value, and constantly discovering the effective possibility between these cultures and fashion.

For its development, we only need it to grow healthily.