The "Four Heavenly Kings" In China'S Fashion Design Industry Have Been Concentrating On Fashion For 30 Years.

30 years ago, the Chinese people were just paying attention to food and clothing. At that time, China's fashion industry was still at the stage of enlightenment, and the designer was still a rather small occupation.

30 years later, China's fashion industry began to move to the world stage with unprecedented confidence and self-consciousness. It has displayed outstanding works with Chinese style, Chinese character, Chinese spirit and Chinese power.

The exhibition of "China 4X30 South Zhangbei Wang Dongwu West Liang" Art Exhibition on display at the Beijing exhibition hall is epitome of these 30 years.

The art exhibition, named "40", is a group of quite meaningful figures: "4", pointing to the 4 most representative and meaningful designers in contemporary China -- Zhang Zhaoda, Wang Xinyuan, Wu Haiyan and Liang Mingyu; they are often referred to as "Four Heavenly Kings" in the Chinese costume design art circles.

"30" means that Chinese fashion has gone through the 30 years of China's reform and opening up. During this period of development and change, Chinese fashion participants, contributors and witnesses continue to explore the way forward.

The theme art exhibition is a collection of four artists representing 30 years of art. The fine arts exhibited from the field of costume design to other works of art include clothing art, installation art, oil painting, sculpture, ink painting, calligraphy, seal cutting and so on.

The exhibition has a high artistic standard, long span and wide exhibition scope.

Most importantly, these creations from different periods and different artists have shown similar Chinese fashion exploration paths: from "beauty to the west" to the combination of Chinese and Western cultures, in recent years, they have returned to Oriental Aesthetics and are showing the most outstanding works of Chinese style, the beauty of China and the cohesion of Chinese power with unprecedented confidence.

Wu Haiyan, President of the school of design and art of The China Academy of Art and President of WHYDESIGN Wu Haiyan textile and garment (Design) Co., Ltd., Beijing, recalled that from 1988 to 1998, Chinese enterprises began to focus, and everyone began to know what brands were. From 1998 to 2008, the entire Chinese educational and design circles began to rise and trained a large number of Chinese designers. From 2008 to 2018, we are very familiar with Europe and the United States today.

Xu Ping, a professor at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, said that this year is the 40 year of reform and opening up. The biggest change is China's pformation from the periphery to the center.

Today, we feel that the distance from the world is not so far away and strange. The important reason is that we started a fashionable life and began to go step by step to the center of the world stage.

But at the same time, China's clothing design and industry has reached a bottleneck, which is also the consensus of the industry.

Li Chaode, a professor at Soochow University, pointed out that in the future development of fashion industry, we should seriously consider how to establish our own discourse system in such a world, how to deal with such a big technology era, and how to establish an aesthetic character of China in the scientific and technological era.

Wu Haiyan and Xu agreed that the key lies in art.

"You make costumes, he makes costumes, but what are the characteristics of everyone? This is the same problem that teaching, designers and enterprises encounter.

If you want to go further in the future, that is art.

Art is the most basic original gene, and the characteristics of artistry are embodied in creativity, and very persistent pursuit of perfection.

Wu Haiyan said.

The more crucial driving force for Xu Ping is

That is to really dress the clothing industry as an art industry that can lead the future.

Ma Jianjun, vice chairman of the fashion industry and Beijing organizing committee, said that the theme art exhibition is not only the first generation in China.

The review and summary of the art road is the epitome of the development and change of Chinese fashion in the past 30 years. It is also a fashion journey jointly created by China Heng Tian Group and China fashion pioneer.

Looking at the history of global fashion industry, the sprouting, generation and development of fashion industry are always closely linked with economic development.

With the brilliant achievements of reform and opening up, China's fashion industry has gone through unusual and noteworthy 30 years, and more and more fashionable designs of "Chinese and Western" have been put together.

Overseas fashion designers in China have gained more voice in the international arena.

It is hoped that through this theme art exhibition, the public will be able to experience China more vividly and intuitively.

Changes in the industry enhance the confidence and influence of national culture and local design.

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