Textile Story Behind The Opening Ceremony Of Beijing Winter Olympic Games

Textile story behind the opening ceremony of Beijing Winter Olympic Games

On February 4, the world-famous 24th Winter Olympic Games opened ceremoniously at the National Stadium "bird's nest" in Beijing, China. With the brilliant performances of each delegation and actors, the textile story behind the opening ceremony has become a hot topic for discussion.

Ceremonial dress of Chinese sports delegation

Show Chinese style

Last night, the Chinese sports delegation, dressed in ceremonial costumes designed by the Beijing Institute of fashion, attended the opening ceremony, showing Chinese style. As the host, the costumes of Chinese athletes in this winter Olympic Games have become the focus of the world. The theme of Chinese sports delegation's ceremonial dress is "Chinese style", which was designed by you Jia, associate professor of Beijing Institute of fashion. The design scheme of "Chinese style" aims to convey the spiritual outlook of the Chinese people, combines the factors such as time, space and climate of the opening ceremony, naturally combines with the auspicious and festive atmosphere of the Chinese Spring Festival, echoes the Olympic spirit of faster, higher, stronger and more united, integrates practical and beautiful into one, reflects traditional culture and Olympic Games, and conveys Chinese characteristics Chinese style.

This dress is developed and manufactured by Dishang group and Beijing Institute of fashion. In November 2021, Dishang professional tooling group, a subsidiary of Dishang group, sent senior craftsmen and pattern makers to form a technical research team, and appointed Dalian Dishang Huasheng Garment Co., Ltd., which specializes in the production of world-class woolen overcoats The Gaoding factory of Dishang technology R & D center, which specializes in the production of high-end customized products, and Dishang Huaqi Wool Textile Co., Ltd., which specializes in the production of high-end woolen fabrics, cooperate with the R & D and production. In this opening ceremony, the Chinese sports delegation's appearance dress, all adopts the way of single person single edition. Because many athletes are in closed training, the measuring method is sent to the athletes in a video, and asked them to measure by themselves and then adjust according to ergonomics. Some athletes have different shapes and sizes of muscles in many parts of their bodies due to years of training. The stylist has established a posture model for each athlete and tested it repeatedly before cutting to ensure that everyone can wear it properly and comfortably. The team of Deschamps always shoulders the sense of honor and mission. In the details of the Winter Olympic dress, the gilded button with the word "China" is fixed with a special horizontal handle, so as to ensure that the word "China" is always correct. The team of Deschamps is committed to making the national team at the opening ceremony show the overall vision of a big country, positive wind and positive energy. The dress should not only have a beautiful appearance, but also take into account the needs of cold protection at the opening ceremony. The selection and production of fabrics have become the top priority.

The team chose 800g pure cashmere as the main fabric, and attached a detachable white goose down inner liner inside the dress, which ensured the straightness and comfort of the dress. Cooperating with the cashmere coat, it could help the delegation resist the cold of - 20 degrees below zero, and be beautiful without "freezing".

Dishang Huaqi team has allocated all the best resources to invest in the "Winter Olympics production line" specially set up for the Winter Olympics. From the initial strict control of raw material sorting, spinning, weaving, finishing and other production links, to selecting the most suitable color from hundreds of color schemes, and finally to over specification and strict quality control production, In terms of quality inspection, the national standard cloth inspection speed of 18 meters per minute is reduced to 10 meters per minute, and the quality of every inch of fabric is guaranteed with higher requirements than the national standard, so that the team of the Chinese Olympic delegation can show the beautiful and elegant "Chinese color" in front of the cameras all over the world.

"Chinese style" theme clothing design, with red as the color tone. Red is one of the highest level colors in traditional Chinese etiquette. It is the preferred color for Chinese athletes in previous Olympic Games. It has certain representativeness, highlights the warm and festive atmosphere, shows the enthusiasm and friendship of the Chinese people, and also reflects the positive and enterprising spirit of Chinese Olympic athletes. In the overall collocation, the female athletes' clothing adopts red coat and white high boots to highlight the image of soft, graceful and intelligent; Men's sportswear is made of fashionable Beige coat, white trousers and short boots, showing the elegant and youthful temperament. Both male and female athletes wear fashionable and warm scarves, hats and gloves. The scarves are designed in a free way to achieve different fashion styles of the same scarf. The scarves are mainly colored with red and yellow national flag, and the two characters of "China" are woven from three calligraphy fonts of Lishu, regular script and running script. The simplicity and solemnity of Lishu, the straightness of regular script, and the vividness and tactfulness of running script write the beauty of harmonious and balanced rhythm, convey Chinese culture and show the beauty of Oriental civilization.

"Flying dove of peace" lead singer children's clothing

Yuxian paper cutting and Chinese knot elements

The costume of 155 children from the lead singer of the Philharmonic Orchestra in the dance "flying the dove of peace" was designed by designer Ding Jie. When the children's songs in the bird's nest over the melodious echo, wearing blue and white porcelain and blue two color clothing from the snow. As the key point of children's clothing design, Ding Jiehua studied, demonstrated and practiced color paper cutting in Yuxian County, Hebei Province. With the permission of the copyright owners of paper-cut works, Ding Jie broke and reorganized the arrangement of carp leaping over the dragon's gate with the help of the tiger head cap of skiing children and the paper-cut element of having fish every year, The fish is skillfully integrated into the cute tiger pattern. Designer Ding Jie integrates fashion patterns into Chinese New Year's "Chinese knot" and other auspicious elements. The image evolves into the ever-changing snowflake feast. When children dance happily, those patterns of deconstruction are like three-dimensional dreamlike images.

Special "security net"

High tech support, both shading and ventilation

In the 100 year history of the Olympic Games, lighting the torch is a classic moment that people can remember vividly, which is also the top secret of any Olympic Games.

At the opening ceremony, three camouflage nets with a total area of nearly 2800 square meters left the suspense of the Winter Olympic flame to the last moment. It was hailiya Group Co., Ltd. from Qingdao that weaved this "secret net".

In order to keep the mystery of the torch to the last moment, the firing ceremony drill was carried out at night. The research and development team of hailiya designed three special camouflage nets with a total area of nearly 2800 square meters to surround the ignition ceremony from three directions.

"For such a large camouflage net, in order to be able to camouflage the shape of the torch, the camouflage net needs to have low light transmittance, but also enough air permeability, otherwise such a huge camouflage net standing in the air will not be able to mount and control, especially when there is strong wind, the camouflage net will be like a sail like a sail Zhang Lidong, deputy director of the technology center, said that for the camouflage net, ventilation and shading itself are contradictory.

"If there is a mistake in a small link, it may delay the rehearsal of the ignition ceremony." Although she has participated in national important tasks for many times, it is the first time for hailiya to provide technical support for such a high-level international event. Time is pressing, and there are many difficulties. The problems in front of the R & D team are very difficult.

For shading, the R & D team started to improve the material and mesh density; In view of the air permeability, the R & D team has "put on" special aerospace special ropes for the special protective net. "This kind of high-performance super fiber rope is lighter in weight, but its strength is greater than that of steel cable. At the same time, it takes into account the characteristics of" thin, light and small elongation rate, "Zhang Lidong described, "From both horizontal and vertical directions, we have added nearly 3000 meters of special rope to the camouflage net, which is equivalent to adding skeleton to the whole net."

It took two months, four trips to and from Beijing, and nearly 10 editions were revised before and after. In November of last year, hailiya finally installed a "security net" which can resist the gale of force 10, which can ventilate and block light, and is easy to mount and control, so as to ensure that the shape of the torch will not be leaked during the drill.

Costume for the opening ceremony

Integrating traditional Chinese elements

It is worth mentioning that in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, the costumes of the actors and actresses at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games were inspired by the "thousand li Jiang Shan Tu", the colorful luminous ice hockey suits, the paper-cut art and the lovely peace dove children's clothes, the clean green work clothes of the countdown, the Chinese knot and the speed skating clothes full of enthusiasm, These traditional elements of the opening ceremony costumes are designed by Chen Peng, the founder of Chinese designer brand Chenpeng. With wonderful Chinese elements, they show the world China's cultural confidence.

Olympic flag guard clothing

Expressing the rhythm of the country with design language

The Olympic flag guard costume designed by Wang FengChen officially appeared at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. It expresses the rhythm of the country through contemporary design language. The overall shape is endowed with more sense of movement and functionalism on the basis of solemnity. Inspired by the Olympic spirit, we jointly pursue the goals of positive, peaceful, United and inclusive.

Some information sources: People's daily, popular press, Beijing Institute of fashion, etc