On May 20, China Graduate Fashion Week 2021 came to a conclusion in Beijing. With the theme “Smart Change”, the Graduate Fashion Week saw a wonderful exhibition of students’ work from a total of 77 Chinese and overseas universities. In this Fashion Week, the Academy of Arts and Design Tsinghua won the “Education Award” for China Fashion Design 2021 and the “Talent Training Achievement Award” for this Fashion Week, and Associate Professor Wang Yue won the “Excellent Instructor Award” for China Fashion Design 2021. In addition, Li Chunhui, a 2018 graduate student, won the “Newcomer Award” for the 26th China Fashion Design. Wu Jianrong, a 2017 undergraduate student, won the “Excellence Prize” for the Newcomer Award of the 26th China Fashion Design Award. Ma Yanqing, a 2018 graduate student, won the “Fabric Application Award”, a special award of China Graduate Fashion Week 2021.
Design renderings and style charts of the “Introversion Realm”
Li Chunhui’s work in this contest, the “Introversion Realm” series, relies on the optical illusion effect of costumes to create a brand-new secret inner realm for people suffering from “social phobia”, who experience great pressure from life and social interaction, and thereby giving a new serene space for people tired of face-to-face social communication. Through laser cutting, digital printing, positioning and cutting, among other techniques, non-realistic clothing pictures have been created, so that people can express themselves more truly and enhance the diversity and possibility of mutual communication.
The series of works of “Girl Dragon King”, designed by Wu Jian, take the “dragon” as the starting point. The dragon, as a mythical beast, assumes unpredictable shapes, able to call down wind and rain, which corresponds to the best state that the designer thinks contemporary women should achieve: beautiful and powerful. According to legend, the flame and cloud accompanying the dragon in the dragon totem are its wings, and the lines obtained by geometric splitting are taken as the outline of this design. Metal rivets representing dragon scales arranged in order are the post-processing expressions of extracting traditional patterns. The belt elements symbolize restraint, but regularly distributed belts are more like ornaments. The girl delineated by the designer is coldly proud, rising above the traditional image of a girl being sweet, and the girl dragon king will eventually get rid of its shackles.
Design renderings of “Cocoons”
Ma Yanqing’s “Cocoons” work series, inspired by “rebirth after breaking through cocoons”, interpret the power of growth in the post-pandemic era. The design patterns have been inspired by the growth of an insect breaking through a cocoon, presenting the rhythm of visual illusion with a color rhythm of black, white and gray. The design technique of combining needles and shuttles is adopted, the outline structure and patterns are interwoven through the quilting process, and the sense of design and future is highlighted with an attitude of sustainable design. “One day he (she) will break out from his (her) cocoon to become the most confident being, soaring to a wider world.”
From the Academy of Arts and Design
Editors: Li Han, John Olbrich
