Designer Mark Returned To His Hometown To Hold A Clothing Exhibition.

Mark is an exception to the designer. Only participated in a competition, took a "top ten", then "retire into the rivers and lakes", immersed in their own. Clothing brand 。 From the creation of "exceptions" to "useless", this is out of fashion, and in her own words, "what to look at will give up."

After the success of the exceptions, mark went to Zhuhai in 2006 to set up a "useless" studio, where dozens of workers, including artisans from remote areas of Guizhou, engaged in spinning, weaving, batik and so on, and could only produce more than 100 pieces of clothing a month. At the same time, mark also went out to record nearly 100 kinds of traditional folk handicrafts. In the eyes of outsiders, Marco may be a freak.

The success of fashion business has made her the world's largest. fashion week In the past ten years, she has participated in many international activities such as Paris fashion week and Venice International Biennale, and has set up her own studio in Zhuhai and Beijing. But Marco said: "Guizhou's exquisite national handicraft, textile, embroidery, Miao Xiu, batik skills and other national elements are difficult to achieve by other ethnic cultures," which has brought rich inspiration to her creation.

Back in 2000, Marco We began to visit and investigate folk crafts in all parts of the country. Only Guizhou's exquisite handicrafts of the nation, especially the Miao nationality dress in Qiandongnan, made her fond of it. Marco, who walked through 88 villages in Guizhou, studied not only the life philosophy and the green lifestyle of the ancient wisdom of Guizhou ethnic minorities, but also the rich ethnic resources of Guizhou, which had a great impact on her personal growth and the formation of design ideas. She had long regarded Guizhou as her second hometown, and even the wedding was held in Liping Dong village, Guizhou.

The theme of this exhibition is "tracing roots and tracing to the source", seeking the root of culture, tracing the source of life, and Marco said, "this is my best interpretation of Guizhou's national culture."

　　 This is not a popular T show.

This "root tracing" performance is not a popular T show, but a combination of elements such as folk songs, dances and musical instruments that have been handed down in Guizhou for centuries. It is also performed by indigenous peoples in Guizhou.

And the 42 sets of handcrafts presented in the show. clothing The work is Marco Over the years, based on the survey results of Guizhou folk handicraft, it has been carefully designed from an international perspective. The stage design and manifestation of the exhibition deeply fused Guizhou's national culture and modern art.

Marco said the creative team hopes to arouse people's understanding of their ancestors' farming life and Guizhou's original national culture in harmony with nature through thousands of years of daily life scenes, such as dyeing, drying, field work, folk song and dance, which are accompanied by the people of Guizhou.

　　 Every time I come to Guizhou, I feel like returning to my hometown.

During the interview, Marco To reporters, he said sincerely: "in the past ten years of research in Guizhou and Guizhou handicraft people living together, I feel that Designer The most successful thing is that every time I come to Guizhou, I feel like going home.

Guizhou is the root of many ethnic cultures. Marco said that on the one hand, she hoped to make the best use of the "useless" platform to find new successors, so that more young people could come to Guizhou to learn and inherit Guizhou's handicraft culture. On the other hand, it also hopes to promote the deep interaction between Guizhou handicraftsmen and handicraft industry, and organically collide with the traditional arts and crafts of Guizhou, so that the rich and colorful Guizhou culture can go out of the mountains and into the world.

With his deep attachment to Guizhou, Mark decided to set up a studio in Guizhou after establishing the "national culture exhibition" of "useless, root tracing", and set up a design and production base, so as to let more special groups who hand in hand pass skills to embark on a road to get rid of poverty and become rich.