London'S Pioneer Designer Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan is a unique wizard. As the only vanguard fashion designer in London, he still has an honorable seat in the fashion industry, which is often sold to the sales volume, although the seat seems to be crumbling. Chalayan will be troubled financially from time to time, which can also be regarded as a medal for self cleaning in the industry. In the past 40 years, I have been looking for designers with real understanding in the fashion industry, and he is the only one. I bet that if someone shows a little interest in today's fashion in one hundred years, it must be Chalayan. His philosophic creative techniques must have attracted them.

Chalayan never compromise, and he has never compromised from his career starting point that shocked the industry. He named himself "The Tangent Flows" in the graduation show at central Saint Martin. Until the show, he only dug up the clothes that had been buried before and put them on the model. It was like a grand ceremony to celebrate the resurrection and rebirth. The show aroused the shock and even anger of the spectators. At the same time, there was a great excitement and joy wrapped up in doubts. But what's important is that this graduation project has attracted the attention of Browns, a London elite department store. Browns put the series in his own window, while Chalayan was calm and self assured in his criticism, because he firmly believed in his value.

"My brand has made a lot of contributions to the fashion industry, but I don't think the fashion industry has given me the same feedback. I choose fashion in many forms of creation, because I believe I can bring new look and thinking to fashion. The designer said, "because of this, I try to expand the connotation of fashion, not just" clothes ". I think the key is that fashion is only a small piece of the world in the category of consciousness.

Indeed, Chalayan is accustomed to using technology, science, architecture, music and imaging techniques to obscure the boundaries between fashion and the human body. His work will be exhibited at the fashion politics / political fashion group exhibition held by Design Exchange in Toronto. His work is often referred to as "wearable art" rather than fashion; his fashion publishing is more like a performance than a traditional show and show.

"He is almost an individual. Artist " Shauna Levy, chairman of the Museum of Toronto Museum of design, commented, "he just chose fashion as a platform for creation, but in fact, if he set foot in any other field of art, he would also achieve great success, because he was multi-dimensional and multi-dimensional. His fashion series is the blending of creativity in the real sense -- fashion, architecture, lighting design, multimedia application or others.

But all of these are difficult to succeed in business. "I must admit that this is a long, sometimes slow and incomparable process." Chalayan said, "twenty years later, I can say that my past works are complex crystallization of difficulties and joys. Money and time are limited in this industry, and the work of independent designers has become extremely difficult.

　　 Chalayan His childhood was spent in Cyprus and England, but the city he was fascinated by was at the crossroads of Istanbul. The centuries old city is still the soil that nourishes his imagination. It is his eclectic background and endless curiosity that enrich his creative ability. This led him to take care of his personal brand while he was favored by the veteran fashion house Vionnet as the creative director of his semi senior custom series. Personally, I hope he can stay like Vionnet in Galliano for a while, because I feel that he has enough ability and understanding to inject his personal style into this fashion house on the basis of the aesthetics of the founder, just like Galliano does. Vionnet

Chalayan is a real fashion thinker. In this small number of teams, Rei Kawakubo, Gareth Pugh and Rick Owens go along with him: they not only design clothes to sell, but more importantly, they can resist enormous commercial pressure and use fashion as a tool for artistic expression. Chalayan also has an iron like creative dedication, but is often surrounded by doubts and questions. He is never complacent and seldom relaxes. His friend described him as a very satire and a real sense of humor. But when he works, he will devote himself to it.

"For me, Latest fashion Display is a declaration of self, which contains the result of following my heart and my mind. Although every design series is the starting point of the next series, moving from here to there is like the flow of wind and cloud. There is no fixed pattern and no prediction at all. But I can still feel that there are other rules and other facts hanging in the air, and I just take them to the earth, which will make them a wonderful and indescribable bubble. They are always there, waiting for me to blow them. "

"I am a designer who emphasizes composition," he declared. "I use fabric to make a comprehensive transformation between the body and the clothes I have designed. I am interested in the relationship between form and body. Good design is related to body; bad design is only on the body. I always remind myself of this.