During the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, whether enjoying the beauty of nature among the green mountains and rivers, or experiencing the charm of humanity in the historical museums, many people will wear traditional Chinese clothes and take photos to check in. Among them, the horse-faced skirt can be said to be the most eye-catching scenery. Some people fall in love with it because of its appearance, some people understand it because of their love, and some people regard designing it as their career and dream.
From niche hobby to popular aesthetics
With profound cultural heritage, beauty and fashion, horse-faced skirts have gradually moved from niche hobbies to popular aesthetics, which has made many designers and producers of horse-faced skirts feel unprecedented joy. Liu Wenyue, a "post-00s" girl from Zhejiang, is one of them.
Hanfu designer Liu Wenyue: When we were first making horse-faced skirts, there were not many big factories in Haining that were willing to make horse-faced skirt fabrics. They felt that the market was too small. As a result, it was completely eliminated after a few months. It's the opposite direction.
Hanfu designer Liu Wenyue: In the past, one picture and one style could be released in a month or two, but now five or six styles can be released in a month, so everyone has to speed up. Because the skirt door in front of it is very similar to the protruding part of the ancient city wall called the horse face, so it is also called the horse face skirt.
After arranging the work in the production workshop, Liu Wenyue started styling again, preparing to shoot a video for the new horse-faced skirt.
Persistence and breakthrough中 Turn love into career
Liu Wenyue has been interested in fashion design since she was a child. She taught herself painting and studied Hanfu styles, and started to design during college. After graduation, Liu Wenyue returned to the countryside and set up a studio in the attic of her hometown house to design Hanfu. In order to be closer to the industry, she changed her studio to Xucun Town, Haining, the largest jacquard fabric production base in the country. What she didn't expect was that horse-faced skirts would soon become popular.
Hanfu designer Liu Wenyue: It used to be a loft with a utility room of 34 square meters, but now it is a studio of 1,000 square meters. I think this is also a leap in my career.
Realizing cultural inheritance from domestic to foreign countries
Ye Zi is an overseas Chinese in Malaysia. This time she went back to Zhejiang to visit relatives and went to Liu Wenyue's studio to choose a horse-faced skirt on the spot.
Malaysian Overseas Chinese Ye Zhenjia: Everyone asks me, where did you buy your skirt that looks good? I said, do you know what this is? This is not an ordinary skirt, this is a horse skirt. I hope everyone can slowly appreciate its beauty and cherish its beauty.
In addition to incorporating daily elements such as flowers, plants, and small fish, Liu Wenyue also added more traditional Chinese elements.
Hanfu designer Liu Wenyue: It is inspired by our Chinese wooden buildings. There is a structure called a caisson on the top. The design has such a theme of the Year of the Dragon. It is very domineering and includes a horse-faced skirt of our Chinese culture.
Wearing a horse-faced skirt, the beauty of China for thousands of years bursts with new vitality
Reading books, surfing the Internet, and visiting museums, Liu Wenyue absorbs nutrition in various ways. In her eyes, the horse-faced skirt is like a book or a painting, conveying the splendid Chinese culture.
Hanfu designer Liu Wenyue: The deeper you understand it, the deeper it becomes. Not just horse-faced skirts, I think all traditional culture has begun to move in that direction. Now there are more and more peers who are willing to be designers. I think this is a manifestation of cultural confidence.
Each piece of the horse-faced skirt designed by Liu Wenyue is woven with the words "China created the horse-faced skirt". Wearing a horse-faced skirt represents the beauty of China for thousands of years. With the corners of the skirt flying, the traditional Chinese taste is taking on a new look, full of vitality and vitality.
