China Overseas Chinese Network, September 2nd. According to a comprehensive compilation report from Australia.com, in recent years, Chinese style has gradually gained a certain position in the world fashion circle. More and more designers like to incorporate Chinese style into their designs. .
Similarly, more overseas people are beginning to appreciate and love Chinese style clothes and accessories, and their pursuit of Chinese style has further encouraged the creative enthusiasm of designers.
As one of Australia’s largest ethnic minorities, the Chinese culture they have inherited from generation to generation is gradually recognized by Australian society, and more and more Australian Chinese designers have joined this fashionable Chinese trend. Contributing to cross-cultural ideas.
Everything is one, the Eastern philosophy contained in jewelry
According to a report on Mirage website, Australian contemporary Chinese jewelry designer Bic Tieu (Bic Tieu, transliteration) designed jewelry and containers inspired by Asian culture. She used slim shapes and complex textures to show Australia the Eastern philosophy, that is, everything. All can be contained in small things.
Tian Baker said that her design is not only about Oriental culture, but also a cross-cultural identity.
As a descendant of immigrants, she hopes to express cross-cultural concepts in her design.
Tian Baker said that her design combines her immigration experience with the contemporary Australian environment.
"We have largely linked our identity and culture. I design jewelry and objects to reflect cross-cultural values and perspectives. This is also a kind of memory retention, historical capture, material technology, manual skills and perspectives. The form of translation. In a mixed way, the past and the present, the East and the West, the ancient and the novel are connected with the design language."
Tian Baker grew up in Sydney since he was a child, and he is an Australian Chinese.
Her ancestors immigrated from mainland China to Vietnam and then settled in Australia. Their experience has also had a great influence on Tian Baker, and also made her have a keen interest in Chinese culture.
Her house was designed in accordance with traditional Chinese Feng Shui. The house was filled with orchids and succulents, and decorated with some accessories that were brought to Australia from China and Vietnam.
As a Chinese American who accepts both Chinese and Western cultural influences, her design explores the aesthetics of this transnational culture, and through the use of multiple forms, technologies and visual languages, the complexity of cross-cultural identity is realized.
Tian Baker said that Chinese cultural beliefs have deeply influenced her.
"As a descendant of Asian immigrants who have experience in Eastern and Western cultures, I will show everyone the integration of different cultures through my own designs. When creating, I will also start from my cross-cultural perspective and let all The jewelry and objects I designed can express the common immigration experience of the Chinese community."
"Let clothing tell the beauty of China, Chinese culture ≠ cheongsam"
For many Chinese designers, fashion design is not only a skill, but also a sharp expression of life attitude.
According to a report from SBS, Betty, a Chinese girl who studied fashion design at RMIT University, took part in the 2018 Melbourne Fashion Week with her own fashion design works.
For Betty, who immigrated to Australia with her parents at the age of 5, she wanted to break the Western society’s stereotypes of Chinese culture through clothing, that is, Chinese culture does not necessarily have to be displayed through cheongsam, and cheongsam is not necessarily glamorous and self-cultivating. of.
The most interesting thing is that the patterns on the clothes designed by Betty are imitations of the most common red, white and blue striped snakeskin bags in China, and these stripes are composed of some Chinese and English phrases. The English is "Made in Orient" and the Chinese is " "Oriental specialty", Betty said, she wanted to use this way to express the current misunderstanding of Chinese culture in Western society.
According to ABC News, Rong Jake Chen, who immigrated to Australia with his parents at the age of 4, encountered Jason Pang, who went to Australia to study from Malaysia, in a fashion project. The two subsequently created a male street Fashion-oriented menswear design brand.
The two, who grew up in Australia with Chinese descent, locked the design tone on the difference between Eastern and Western cultures during the four-year collaboration.
At first, they used bold and distinctive print designs to present a trendy texture with full personality, and then in-depth study of representative social customs and integrated them into the concept of clothing.
Chen Yuanrong said: "Our creation combines our oriental ancestry and the influence we have received in the West. This is reflected in many of our series." In addition, he also said: "We think that because we have Chinese ancestry, all Our works all have a unique fusion taste unique to China and Australia."
The Chinese wind blowing from Australia will blow to the world
As many Chinese designers are committed to adding Chinese elements to their designs, their works are also recognized by more and more Australian customers. Chinese style fashion design has become the focus of everyone’s attention and has begun to establish itself on the international stage. And convey Chinese brand culture and values.
According to a report by the "Australian Financial Review", Chinese designer Liu Min created his own clothing brand and incorporated Chinese style into his design.
Today, many of the world's top shopping malls have this brand of clothing.
In the shop, Chinese and Western customers have tried on the brand's Chinese-style embroidered jackets, ingeniously designed modern cheongsams and gem-toned velvet shoes.
Liu Min said: “There really is no aesthetic barriers in fashion now. Some of my foreign customers have said,'This is Chinese style clothes, but it is so modern and fashionable, and it is closely related to me. This is really great. Up.'"
According to a report on the Forbes website, Australian Chinese designer Bowie Wong went to Paris Haute Couture Week to showcase his own fashion collection.
He said that his goal in recent years is to hope that his work can leap from the Australian fashion "flyover" to the stage of Paris haute couture. He hopes that his work can be seen and appreciated by more people.
Huang Yibo was born in Hong Kong, China. He has been exposed to stage costumes since he was a child and became interested in design and fashion.
He then moved to Sydney to focus on fashion design and established a local brand in 2000.
Because of his contribution to the Australian fashion industry, Huang Yibo was appointed by Tourism Australia as the Australian Goodwill Ambassador (Friend of Australia) and also served as the Goodwill Ambassador for the Sydney Lunar New Year.
These Chinese designers used their own whimsy to construct a distinctive "Chinese style" design. This Chinese style blown from Australia is more traditional and brings different things to the western-dominated world fashion circle. New wave.
(Wei Wei)