Designer turns over a new leaf
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“INTERIOR design is always about long-term projects. It usually takes about six months to one year to see the ideas materialize, which can become unbearable,” Wang said.
So she turned to other formats to present her design and ideas in a much shorter period. It also gave her more freedom to try her hands in oil painting, clothing, luggage and jewelry design.
Wang said she is often inspired by “the kaleidoscopic patterns forged in daily life and nature,” such as the toughness of life as seen when a dying tree, though tilted, keeps hanging in there. Or when a gold fish sticks to a corner of the pond hoping for food. She later designed a dress featuring a gold fish in a pond in silk embroidery.
“Sometimes the patterns and lines just present themselves to me,” she said. “Once my husband was breaking his fast in the dining room when the sun’s rays radiated from the back. I could see the lines just jump right in front of me. I told him to sit still and I rushed to grab my sketch book.”
Architecture is another major inspiration. “Interior design is pretty much about how to properly arrange the space to showcase a certain layout,” she said. “Fashion design, likewise, is how to properly use every piece of garment to showcase the curves of the body. Basically, all designs are the same,” she said.
Having been involved in the business for years, Wang is deep into aesthetics forged in space and structures which she later applied into fashion design.
Her latest women’s wear collection is influenced by townhouses and castles in European cities, paired with a series of handbags and clutches featuring patterns of marble columns, vases and stone carvings.
Elements of traditional Chinese architecture can also be found in Wang’s manuscripts, such as wooden carvings on lintels, the extraordinary tenor structure and engraved windows.
Her family also gives her sufficient inspiration. She is working on a kidswear collection titled “Babies” that feature eight paintings inspired by her 4-year-old son. The paintings record the micro-moments of his daily life, such as mother and son playing shadow games in bed while he played dart. She is also working on a k-gold jewelry collection inspired by her son, titled “Angel.”
Her next step is to try blending her fashion designs with ethnic minority techniques, including the embroidery works by Chinese Miao and Yao ethnic groups, and the plant dying that prevails in southwest China’s Yunnan and Guizhou provinces.
“The dying works that are found in the market can never match those done by the Yunnan ethnic craftsmen that I used to see when I was young,” said the Yunnan native.
She said she’d love to find a way to present these delicate fine works in a modern way.
The designer is preparing to stage her first solo exhibition later next year that will showcase some 900 designs varying from womenswear, handbags and clutches, jewelry and accessories, to oil painting and chinawares.
Contact Wang Jingjia through email: nianyi908@126.com
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