Monday 19th-20th
October Shanghai Fashion Week
Shanghai fashion week AW 15/16 Su Guang Yu, Beijing designer male and
female fashion designs 19th-20th October 2015
http://www.design-china.org/post/12874460237/guang-yu
http://www.design-china.org/post/12874460237/guang-yu
I met in their shanghai based office. (they were all a bit confused downstairs
thinking I was some random white model until I mentioned that I was here to
help prepare, then they took me upstairs to the designer and his main aids,
they girl Amy and another. Amy was a canton girl and could speak good English,
but I could understand what they were saying to me anyway as "Kyles"
the designer's English wasn’t too good.
The models came to audition for the event tomorrow, then trying on the clothes
and taking photos to organise which model would wear what. 20 models, 2 changes
of clothes, 2 of which were male models. All Chinese. 3 different simple shoe
styles depending on the outfit. Red satin Chinese style pumps, metallic silver
mules of white trainers in either red lace or blue red lace, if too long they
were tied around the ankle like a ballet dancer, a statement piece. 点晴之笔
the next day needed to be in Xintandi新天地to go to the show as it’s in the main park here each time. I met with Amy at 8.30am. There were other fashion students from Donghua there already. they helped put some of the clothes on the racks for the individual models, and then that seemed to be it for them for the day, I helped the two actual workers with all the steaming, making sure all the outfits where ready, they even called me back to do more as apparently I was so good. We each had a model to look after to make sure they dressed etc. they did a dress rehearsal on the catwalk and then after lunch and makeup, they got dressed and ready to go. Photographers were busy clicking away, they models looked great. At 2 o'clock the show started with one quick change though I seemed to be organising the other outfits for the other students as well as tidying up after once it was done. They were all very grateful and all the pictures looked amazing.
东边跟西边见面
Overall in comparison to previous experiences I have in fashion week shows, the designers were organised but the students and the models weren't, quite last minute for the models and the students were lazy. The show itself as it was a major fashion capital was much organised and professional, full of sponsors and style. East meets west, similar and yet so different,
