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designer guan shumin: using flowers in clothing to explore new expressions of confidence in chinese haute couture

2024-09-14

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bauhinia has strong vitality, and its leaves are tightly connected to the branches. no matter how strong the wind and rain are, they will not fall off. it is tenacious and stubborn. when it blooms, the flowers will grow and bloom from the same place, just like family members snuggling together and closely connected. the drooping lines add rhythm and charm, showing an elegant style.

she is the city flower of hong kong and she represents love and harmony.

“she” is from hong kong, china, “she” is yunxiang, “she” is kwan shuk man.

lafaveur is a high-end custom women's clothing brand in hong kong, china, founded by designer sharon kwan in 2015. "lafeur" is derived from the famous line in the "qingping diao" by the tang dynasty poet li bai: "the clouds are like clothes, the flowers are like faces, the spring breeze blows on the threshold and the dew is thick." it uses clouds to represent clothes and flowers to represent people, implying that the brand uses fashion to interpret the graceful, elegant, graceful and classic oriental beauty.

the life of a flower symbolizes the passage of time and the passage of years. in the blink of an eye, it blooms its most unique beauty. the brand logo of lafaveur is a simple sketch of a bauhinia flower and a female body. on september 11, the lafaveur ss25 show was held at the china international fashion week. designer guan shumin presented more than 50 pieces of high-end custom-made and light luxury dresses with the theme of "yunxiang's appointment". it draws inspiration from traditional craftsmanship and cultural heritage, reinterprets the intangible cultural heritage genes, blooms the aesthetics of flowers, and cleverly combines innovative design with traditional heritage, giving chinese high-end women's clothing a new artistic vitality.

lafaveur is committed to creating a high-end custom women's clothing brand that integrates chinese and western cultures. through tracing the origins, inheritance and innovation of chinese traditional culture and art, using design elements that conform to modern aesthetics and international popular colors, integrating non-legacy craft elements such as chaozhou embroidery and miao embroidery, and innovating and improving the design of new chinese cheongsam and dresses, it has created a unique "yunxiang" high-end women's clothing art style, highlighting the tough, elegant and rich image of oriental women, and providing a perfect interpretation of the spiritual pursuit of contemporary urban new women.

in march this year, lafaveur was invited to appear at the china international fashion week for the first time, leaving a stunning moment with the "flower appointment" theme show. this season, lafaveur returns and blooms brilliantly on this national fashion platform. designer guan shumin draws inspiration from the garden of sparse shadows and floating lights, draws on the gorgeous colors of flowers, combines the intangible cultural heritage chao embroidery, miao embroidery and bead embroidery embellishment and other techniques, and selects materials using self-developed high-end fabrics with complex craftsmanship and rich design sense, and adds lace, decoration or fabric patterns to interpret the theme of flowers. "yunxiang has a complete supply chain, and our fabrics are all independently developed. whether it is the flower shape, pattern or material, they are all unique. it can be said that it is truly high-end customization from the source."

in terms of design and craftsmanship, the use of intangible cultural heritage crafts such as miao embroidery and chaozhou embroidery makes all the flower embroidery full of three-dimensionality and lifelike. a large number of gorgeous elements such as embroidery, pearls, lace, and broken diamonds are added to integrate traditional culture, intangible cultural heritage crafts and modern fashion elements. guan shumin and the craftsmen invested time, love and experimental creativity at all costs, and together created this season's high-end design works full of fantasy and romantic artistic conception.

i am the colored pen in my dream, i want to write on the flowers and leaves and send them to the morning clouds

zhang ailing once said, "we each live in our own clothes." fashion is used to express personality and culture and bears the deep imprint of the times.

sharon kwan is the winner of the 17th world outstanding chinese award, honorary president of the hong kong chamber of textiles, chairman of hong kong baowei co., ltd., fashion designer, and founder of lafaveur, a high-end custom women's clothing brand in hong kong, china.

with more than 30 years of experience in the textile and apparel industry, guan shumin has worked closely with many of the world's top apparel brand designers. from fabric development, fashion design to manufacturing and marketing, she personally participates in every aspect, striving for perfection and demonstrating her extraordinary talent, profound academic background and innovative thinking.

guan shumin insists on using fashion language to show the beauty of chinese fashion to the world, and is committed to making lafaveur a national brand that inherits oriental aesthetics and demonstrates cultural confidence. her design works cleverly combine eastern and western cultural elements, injecting a unique artistic charm into high-end fashion. she has won the honors of guangdong province's top ten designers and china international fashion week 2024's "national style influence".

chinese culture has a long history, contains thousands of years of craftsmanship and technology, and has incomparable cultural value. guan shumin is committed to speaking with her works, letting the world know that china not only has excellent craftsmanship and supply chain strength, but also has excellent original design and unique fashion style.

in the pursuit of innovation, guan shumin always maintains a reverence for tradition and transforms this feeling into a series of gorgeous clothes. this season's works are still lafaveur's pure tribute to traditional intangible cultural heritage skills. the delicate stitches and exquisite lines show the agility and splendor of the blooming flowers, exploring the integration with art, nature, and intangible cultural heritage skills.

the simple silhouette and exquisite details depict an extraordinary style and are also an in-depth exploration of women's body rights; the combination of layers of tulle and embroidery is a wonderful exploration of texture, emphasizing yunxiang's independent and inclusive femininity, and is also a tribute to elegance and pragmatism.

this season's "yunxiang date" looks back on the brand's ten years of cultivating high-end fashion and its coexistence and prosperity with the greater bay area, and looks forward to the brand's empowerment of the future of chinese fashion; it also indicates that lafaveur yunxiang, which has the spirit of constantly reshaping itself and reshaping fashion, is as tenacious, independent and abundant as the "bauhinia", using flowers in clothing to give women the power of beauty.

i would like to be the dream weaver, inheriting the intangible cultural heritage

at the intersection of design and aesthetics, traditional handicrafts and the fashion industry not only carry a profound historical heritage, but also rely on a rich and diverse innovation space, bringing sustainable growth momentum and cultural heritage effects to each other. the organic integration of historical culture, national culture, and intangible cultural heritage in fashion can make products and even brands more culturally meaningful and of contemporary value.

the inheritance of skills is inseparable from the understanding of profound cultural heritage. guan shumin actively devotes herself to the mission of "the future of tradition" and redefines traditional materials and traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design language.

at this fashion week, lafaveur joined hands with "weaving love action" to create a charity fashion show, using intangible cultural heritage skills to graft "her power", and conducted a beneficial exploration for the "weaving love action" and chinese clothing brands to enhance their public welfare influence and deep charity. this charity event provides a stage and opportunity for rural public welfare women, helping them to create the future with their own hands and making intangible cultural heritage skills more splendid in the new era.

"intangible cultural heritage crafts are very suitable for high-end customization. the combination of intangible cultural heritage crafts and traditional culture is a work of art. for example, if intangible cultural heritage crafts such as chaozhou embroidery and miao embroidery want to go further, they must break out of the constraints of traditional themes and combine the market for modern innovation." guan shumin said that lafaver will also try to cross-border cooperation with some well-known domestic and foreign sports fashion brands and casual wear brands in the future, and look forward to creating unexpected sparks.

every stitch, every pattern, every color, makes fashion a bridge between tradition and modernity, culture and life, showing the unique charm and cultural connotation of oriental aesthetics. as an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, guan shumin's original intention is like a spark that sets the prairie on fire, a spark that warms the world and ignites an endless, burning passion.

taking dreams as a horse, giving new value to chinese high-end customization

in recent years, many high-end fashion houses have resumed their couture business, rolling up the increasingly difficult couture track. behind the time-consuming and complicated couture heavy-duty design is the ultimate pursuit of delicate craftsmanship by these brands. in the ever-changing era, the detached couture is exploring the trend of change and presenting more possibilities.

chinese haute couture designers and inheritors of intangible cultural heritage skills, represented by guan shumin, start from a contemporary perspective, combine the characteristics and needs of haute couture, explore inspiration and absorb nutrients from chinese culture, strengthen the oriental aesthetic genes of haute couture, focus on incorporating chinese cultural elements and connotations into the design, and give the products more aesthetic value.

using international fashion design as a language to showcase oriental fashion aesthetics and inherit chinese cultural values ​​has become the core competitiveness of the lafaveu brand. "as a designer in the greater bay area, using fashion as a medium to tell chinese stories well to the outside world, so that more people can see and fall in love with chinese culture, is my advantage and my mission," said guan shumin.

"i love high fashion, and i love chinese culture even more. they are not short-lived trends, but become more and more meaningful over time. a good work or a kind act is positive energy from within, which can make people feel the transmission of a spirit. i hope to share beauty with everyone, and use beauty to convey a spirit and move everyone with beauty."

people who love beauty are connected by heart and hands. lafaveur yunxiang aspires to become a high-end fashion brand originated from china and recognized by the world, integrating innovative design with traditional heritage, defining the high-end aesthetics that blends chinese and western cultures, reshaping the elegant and outstanding charm of oriental women, and giving chinese high-end women's clothing a new artistic vitality.