From December 11th to 17th, the Silk Road Yunsheng Colorful Yunnan 2021 Online Kunming National Fashion Week came to dazzle the beauty, and the characteristics of 16 prefectures and cities in Yunnan made a brilliant appearance. Dali Yi Costume Yi Embroidery Institute, Dali Jieyuan Jewelry Co., Ltd. made a wonderful appearance with "The Most Beautiful Wedding Dress in Yunling".
At this fashion week, Qu Biaoxiang, the municipal inheritor and designer of Dali Yi costumes, brought 20 sets of classic costumes, including 2 sets of the main Yi wedding dress.
There is a tradition of the Yi people in Dali: as long as a daughter is born, the mother will begin to make a luxurious and beautiful Yi wedding dress for her. From the headdress to the shoes, a stitch is sewn by hand, and the wedding dress that the mother has poured half of her life into is called the "most beautiful wedding dress", which is also the reason why Qu Biaoxiang named the "most beautiful wedding dress" in this fashion show.
Qu Biaoxiang said that the costumes displayed this time take dali woman flowers as the main element, and the fabrics used are textile fabrics after secondary processing of waste items, which is very environmentally friendly.
He said that embroidering such a set of wedding dresses would take more than twenty embroiderers two years to complete. A set of "most beautiful wedding dresses", including clothing, shoes, headbands, waists, vests, wallets, pillows, satchels and various jewelry, the colors are mainly black, white, red, yellow, green and blue. Silver glittering, embroidered clusters of large waists, embroidered with bright flowers, chic and exquisite flower shoes, exquisitely crafted headkerchiefs, streamers, etc., showing the spiritual skills of Yi women.
Knotted embroidery (seed embroidery), side embroidery, flat embroidery, paper-cut embroidery, weaving embroidery, flower picking embroidery... The bride's mother used all her skills to embroider the most beautiful wedding dress, so that her daughter could wear it when she was married to win glory for the family. The bridegroom's mother must also prepare the most exquisite silver jewelry and the most exquisite embroidery to meet the future inheritors.
Hanging grass village in the southern suburbs of Xiaguan, Qu Biaoxiang's 100-year-old residence has become a Dali Yi costume Yi embroidery training center, his wife is the Dali Yi embroidery municipal inheritor, the couple often ask the older generation for advice on the production skills of Yi embroidery and clothing, and collect a lot of old embroidery pieces and old costumes.
In the cognition from childhood to adulthood, the wedding dress is the mother's interpretation of the love of her children, and it also represents the highest handicraft of the family. He said that this fashion show uses the wedding dress as the medium, but also wants to see what kind of sparks will collide with modern fashion with traditional handicrafts, so that everyone can see the charm of traditional handicrafts and better pass on this skill.
Each pattern and embroidery piece is a beautiful story, from the original ecological national costumes, to the original Chinese style, to the international fashion style, Qu Biaoxiang said that in order to pass on this skill, it is necessary to innovate on the basis of inheritance, actively integrate into the world, so that it will not be eliminated in the wave of modernization.
Source: Cloud newspaper client
Editor: Chen Sihua
Duty Week: Zhang Hui
Editor-in-Chief: Li Sheng
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