Exhibitions | Mountains and Water: Global Qipao Invitational Exhibition

• Artworks： (L) Prof. Li Yulian, (M) Prof. Jocelyn Chen, (R) Prof. Gioia Pan,
• Date：2018/9/26 to 10/15
• Venue： China National Silk Museum

Associate Professor Li Yulian, Associate Professor Chen Huazhu and Prof. Pan Yiliang participated in the “Mountains and Water: Global Qipao Invitational Exhibition” organized by the China Silk Museum. Their artworks  were collected by museum.

Since 2017, Hangzhou has started to hold the Hangzhou Global Qipao Festival, which aims at the cross-boundary interaction between culture and tourism, tradition and fashion, art and life, China and the world. Thus, China National Silk Museum has started the Global Qipao Invitational Exhibition. This exhibition has taken more than one year to prepare, invited more than 30 famous fashion designers, installation artists and inheritors of intangible cultural heritage from ten countries including the United States, UK, France, Russia, Norway, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Mexico and China to produce more than 40 pieces of Qipao. The exhibition has taken landscape as its theme, qipao as the shape, with the characteristics of regional culture as the background, with the designer’s expertise in the field as point of view, based on tradition, combined with new technology, to create a fashionable new qipao style. We hope that the audience can broaden their vision and be enlightened after the visit, so as to create a new way for innovative inheritance and creative development.

ARTWORKS’ INTRODUCTIONS

• Prof. Yulian Li 
  Li Yulian is a full-time associate professor in the Department of Textile and Clothing Science of Fu Jen University. She has devoted herself to the fashion design for a long time. She tried to seek poetic vocabulary in clothing creation, taking natural images as patterns. Using a unique form of “painting without painting” to create bamboo patterns, the designer innovatively used clothing techniques, directly sewing “pleats” on the fabric, without any cutting and made into a drawings.
• Prof. Jocelyn Chen
  Jocelyn Chen is also associate Professor in the Department of Textile and Clothing of Fu Jen University. She teaches Western fashion, contemporary fashion, sustainable fashion and design applications in Fu Jen University. This creation is based on the concept of “Seeking Treasure in Mountains and Water: Sustainable Qipao ”. Jumpping out of the traditional frame of Qipao, through the inclusiveness of East and West aesthetics. Looking forward to the interpretation of the potential of Qipao from the perspective of lifestyle. (Special thanks fabric sponsor :使您美服裝公司 Mr. Han Hanzhang)
• Prof. Gioia Pan
  Gioia Pan, a designer from Taiwan, graduated from the Bunka Fashion College, and received a master’s degree from the institute of textiles at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. Currently, she is the design director of GIOIAPAN and a member of China Fashion Association fashion art committee. She is named “the Queen of Knitwear” in Taiwan.
  The design uses knitting as the innovative fabric of the qipao, combined with the circular pendulum and fish tail design, which enhances curve of women body, and adds feminine elegance. Purple as the dark night, the dress standing in the middle of the stage and has an irresistible charm.