At present, more and more female creators are standing out and breaking stereotypes. In this February issue of "Fashion & Beauty VOGUE", we invite independent musician Guo Caijie, multi-faceted creator Ying Ze, and jewelry designer Fengji. In their exploration of different fields and multiple identities, they use their heart-based passion to create unique works that illuminate themselves and inspire others.
Blazers, dark pleated skirts, denim skirts are all MiuMiu;
knitted fake two-ply vest i Sense;
Black stud earrings Uselessobjects
In early December, Guo Caijie set off from the spring city of Kunming and traveled all the way north to Shenyang in the cold winter. As the guest of honor on Zhang Qiang's world tour in Shenyang, Guo Caijie and her band NCR Nomad City have been waiting for a long time. The last time she appeared in Shenyang was a theater roadshow many years ago, so when Zhang Qiang asked Guo Caijie to choose the city she wanted to play, Shenyang naturally beat other cities to gain the upper hand and became the place she wanted to go the most. "I want to visit Shenyang again and appear in a completely different identity and full of playfulness!"
Music is undoubtedly the most committed to Guo Caijie at the moment. Last year, she and her band mates also embarked on a tour of NCR's nomadic cities. Because of the pandemic, they only traveled to five cities. Performing a new piece of music is undoubtedly a mixed process of passion and unfamiliarity, and it wasn't until last summer that NCR finally swam outdoors. This outdoor performance still touches Guo Caijie unforgettably, and the smell of grass in the air seems to reappear yesterday. They performed in a distant mountain, and the weather was good, not as cold as the rehearsal the night before, and the grass was greener after a long day. The details of the performance restored by Guo Caijie are more like a fairy tale dream of alien objects. "We acted for an hour and felt like time was flying. During this time, insects fell from my head to visit, and there was a big moon behind me, which served as a set. Friends in the audience could almost jump together and sing the song muttered in "Counting the Sheep". ”
"Vol.13-1986 Counting Sheep" is the first complete work created by Guo Caijie as an independent musician. "Sheep" is the amniotic fluid that gives birth to new life, and in this album, Guo Caijie continues to deconstruct and reorganize until she reinvents a new self. She wants to convey a kind of fun that belongs to her through this new album and complete a self-introduction that is different from the past. "The music of counting sheep is like prose poetry, composed of words and selected timbre, as if I were looking in the mirror, there is an image. At the same time, like riddles, people who hear need to exchange time with me in order to achieve communication in music. Those who know her well may be surprised by her change, but it's not so untraceable.
black fishnet cutout shirt Hermès;
Silver stud earrings ChaChing
From singer to actor to now independent musician, Guo Caijie has invented her own positioning. When experimenting with these different identities, her core motivation is to get together with people who appreciate and like to create. She is well aware that one's energy is limited, and now is the moment when she most wants to do her best to create music.
Talking about what you want in the future, it's still about creating, "I hope to polish the creations that make me excited." "The creativity of continuous output obviously cannot be carried with just one album, and Guo Caijie told us that she will start a new project, which will be her creative new skin. She will continue to focus on the road of music. The new album is now about 60% in its way through, and "the overall feeling, which I call the other side of hope, is the detours and destruction that must go through before it touches hope." The other side of hope is what the new album is going to create at the moment. ”
The new music career seems to open up Guo Caijie's Rendu two veins, making her feel a kind of joy of body, body and soul, which is completely different from the "sense of confinement" in the actor's career. The former Guo Caijie described herself as more like a tool person who exists to complete work, with a full schedule and a sensitivity to life, and she spent several years repairing the "wood" in her heart until she finally returned to today's lightness and ease. Ultimately, she thought, the biggest change is "learning to say no to yourself."
blazer MiuMiu;
knitted fake two-ply vest i Sense;
Black stud earrings Uselessobjects
The curiosity born from the inner oil is also the driving force behind Guo Caijie's choice to break through himself and explore different fields over the years. With 15 years in the industry as a timeline, Guo Caijie told us that her curiosity came from a daze. "I don't know anything about what I'm doing, and it's this feeling of ignorance that makes me want to inquire and understand, and I take curiosity as my pace." Later, when she realized that life was idling and she was no longer easily excited, her exploration perspective slowly shifted from things to herself, "After her eyes returned to herself, her five senses came back active." ”
Today, Guo Caijie is still sparing no effort to explore the outside world, create new albums, and tap the unlimited creative power inside; Launch promotional songs in conjunction with films, participate in images with music, and obtain communication beyond language; Go to the emotional tourism reality show as an observation guest, guard the bravery of emotional reveal, and feel the slice of the audience's life; On stage, she is both a free singer and a fashion elf who avant-garde. Multiple identities, multiple jobs, but now Guo Caijie will not be as numb and tired as before. It is important to start from the heart, and more importantly, she has learned to zero. There are still many similarities in doing different jobs in different capacities, and once you learn a certain way, you will slide into comfort, "maintain a kind of unknown awe, and let yourself always get fresh strength from each engagement." ”
In Guo Caijie's view, everyone should explore and taste their own multi-faceted as much as possible, because multi-faceted is an inevitable characteristic of human beings, even a person with a relatively single personality, it is also multi-faceted. Multi-faceted, allowing people to experience the world on a larger scale, so that they can be lighter and more relaxed. And the multifaceted nature of the creator, Guo Caijie believes, "There is a way to talk about loneliness." ”
Black halter vest Mayali
After the great success of "See Nara Again", Eizawa became more noticeable, but also more calm. In "Mountains and Rivers", "Rain Beats Basho" and "Wings Fly South" screened at last year's FIRST Film Festival, Yingze starred in completely different female images. She doesn't like repetition and is always challenging roles with different backgrounds and identities. When asked about the criteria for considering roles, so did her response. "I'm a person who particularly doesn't like repetition, I always want to have a change and then some freshness and challenge. I also have a lot of curiosity and don't know what the new might bring me, so I hope for more changes. ”
Yingze said that in an actor's performance, "receiving" and "put" are equally important. Her success is not accidental, but in the process of constantly trying multiple identities, she has found a way of expressing her own. The production work has given Yingze a comprehensive understanding of the process and operation of the crew, while the screenwriting work has given her a deeper understanding of the plot and story, and the cooperation with well-known actors has inspired and mobilized her in performance. In this interlocking opportunity, Yingze explores the broader world of film all the way from production and screenwriting. Looking back at all this, Yingze feels that these are all complementary and complementary, and when she touches an object, this thing will open more doors for her.
Tweed jacket, tweed trousers,
White high heels are all Chanel
In the past few years, many things have slowed down, but Yingze has not stopped the pace of exploration. As an actor, Yingze has guest starred in three TV series in the past year, playing a different female image from before and gaining a new acting experience. For her, the feeling of not repeating is a kind of nourishment, and she does not want to limit herself with "literary films". She said that if there is a chance, she will continue to participate in the creation of TV series to discover more aspects of herself.
Being an actor, being a screenwriter, shooting magazine blockbusters, participating in health and public welfare... Of course, Yingze, who switches freely between different identities, has times when she is tired, but her enthusiasm and curiosity for new things can always make her quickly switch to the next mode. "Every time someone asks me why I do something, I seem to have a hard time answering. I feel like it's more like my instinct. Many of Yingze's choices seem to come from an indescribable but powerful power flowing from her body, as if she naturally has such abilities.
But instinct is not something that exists naturally, in fact, it is the internal driving force that Yingze has carved out little by little. At first, it was her family that injected her with undertones. Since childhood, her parents will give Yingze many choices, tell her the stakes, and let her make her own judgment. They encouraged her to try all kinds of things, and when she wanted to give up as an actress for the first time, it was her parents who encouraged her to try a little longer, and this test opened up a new world. In addition to her parents, Yingze's grandparents are also her role model power. In their eighties, they still fly hundreds of times a year to create value in their field of work, and now in their nineties, they still read books and surf the Internet, care about current affairs, and maintain communication with young people.
With the strength of his family, Yingze's growth is full of exploration. Later, she continued to add her will to this background: she chose her favorite major, took the initiative to find the job she wanted to try, and firmly chose the career of an actor. Every choice touches the bypass, one experience, opens more doors, curiosity pushes her to become more and more multifaceted, and to understand herself more and more. If she used to be interested in the environment and huge issues, now she is more interested in people. She will consciously observe people's joys, sorrows and sorrows, to experience the subtle flow between human feelings, and she is training herself to become a more empathetic actor.
It can be said that instinct pushes Yingze forward, and Yingze also constantly injects inner vitality into instinct, allowing it to continue to nourish itself.
Black halter vest Mayali;
Black beaded fringed dress Giorgio Armani
If he chooses to try a new identity, Ingze hopes to be the director. Full of action, she has completed the first draft of a long script about "transnational family", which is expected to be filmed next year.
After participating in film and television screenwriting, Yingze watched a large number of movies and gradually had the desire to create his own story. This desire did not arise suddenly, and the spark of inspiration had been buried deep in her heart for many years. At that time, she was still in New York, going to a Chinese family's New Year's party, and she found that there were foreigners, Chinese, people who had lived here for a long time, and people who had just arrived, and there were many information gaps between them, and although they were lively, they could never really communicate with each other. Undercurrents are surging, a state of aphasia. Yingze was deeply touched by the scene at that time, and she was deeply fascinated by the contradictions between Eastern and Western cultures and the identity of immigrants. Such a single space, but with such a huge story. Yingze also thought of her, who left her hometown to study abroad when she was young, and was often trapped in a similar aphasic space. The blend of personal emotions and social perspectives led her to create her first full-length screenplay.
Looking forward to this movie, Yingze said that as long as it can be made, she is indifferent to the final result and even Buddhist. Completion is more important than perfection, and being able to shoot and make a movie in its entirety is already a very remarkable thing in her opinion. Becoming a director is just a step in Yingze's multi-faceted life exploration, and she hopes that this step will be firm and sincere, and open up more possibilities for herself. Her instincts have also evolved and become vigorous and powerful in the process, a power lurking in her body, imperceptible, but brave along the way, nourishing her multifaceted life.
dark gray checked coat Emporio Armani;
Black jumpsuit by Ralph Lauren;
White stud earrings Personal items
At the time of the interview, Fengill had just finished an exciting trip to Paris. As the first jewelry artist from Chinese mainland, she was invited to participate in the Biennale des Antiquaires de Paris and Fine Arts Paris, presenting her long-awaited new works in the Carrousel room of the Louvre. Visitors from all over the world, including French Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot, Belgian royal prince de Chimay and his wife, stop by these dreamlike jewelry pieces. At the same time, she finally had an exotic reunion with her long-lost work "Suspended Ginkgo". Earlier last year, the world-famous ginkgo was added to the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Louvre system, making Fengji the youngest jewelry artist to achieve this achievement.
Fengji is no stranger to such awards. In the six years since the establishment of the brand FENG J, she has set the highest auction price of Chinese mainland jewelry designer in the world, and is also the only Chinese jewelry designer selected for the important global women's jewelry exhibition of Fuyis... "first", "youngest", "highest price", "only", in the face of these huge labels, she can always calmly dissolve the noisy and eye-catching parts for several years, and then travel light again. In her opinion, "these labels are some achievements, which make me feel that I have been recognized at different stages, it is an affirmation of my past efforts, and of course, I feel that I am lucky to get them." But I want to always focus on the next piece and insist that the work make a sound, so that there is no so-called pressure, because my focus is not on these labels. ”
Suede stand up collar jacket, suede turtleneck top,
Suede skirt and grosgrain slingback sandals are all Ferragamo
Born in a family of calligraphy and painting, Fengji, who picked up the brush when he was ignorant, did not take the road of painting that was natural in the eyes of others. She liked the sound of objects, so she chose to major in furniture design at university. Compared with the public's understanding of furniture as "a practical tool of life", she believes that furniture can be an object with the attributes of installation art. For example, the chessboard light she designed, "In my thoughts, it expresses not only a chessboard, but more like a living object, each chess piece when pressed its meter grid will glow, silently interacting with the chess player, showing the trajectory of the next chess, let people guess with a scope, I think this interaction is particularly interesting." With this love of "using the expressive elements of space, form and material to present living objects that surprise people", she continued to work in furniture and industrial styling, and almost started a career in supercar design, and even stepped into fashion crafts during graduate school.
The integration of all fields is most appropriately displayed under Fengji. Different creations are like rivers that spread in all directions, each with its own waters, but all rivers come from the same ocean. The creation is connected, but different carriers are used to express what the creator wants to convey, and the reason why jewelry is finally used as the main form of expression is because the vast dimension that a small jewelry work can carry fascinates Fengji. "I can accommodate the universe and world I want to express with a limited volume. It can be passed down from generation to generation, it can carry history, each piece of jewelry carries its story, and even records the aesthetic and artistic style of that era. ”
The previous different dabbling experiences also gave Fengji's jewelry creation a rich sense of diversity. For example, her most well-known concept - "painting with gemstones", which means that by combining gemstones of different forms and colors, with the blessing of double-sided rose cutting technology, she presents an impressionistic and poetic and natural creation in the interlacing of light and shadow, which undoubtedly benefits from the artistic edification of childhood; The reason why small jewelry pieces can convey a sound aura and energy between square inches is related to the sense of volume she handled in large furniture installations during her school life; There is also the brand's signature process "floating inlay", which is born out of the experience gained when Fengji studied leather goods making as a graduate student.
Suede skirts are all Ferragamo
Fengji almost never deliberately emphasizes her identity as a woman, because she does not want to turn it into a rigid impression, "I hope that the work will have different points of strength at different times"; But the resilience and lightness that runs through it are the most distinctive epitome of female creators.
Fengji believes that the present time we live in is a good time for female creators. Women from all walks of life are rising, no longer hiding the light, no longer fearful, and playing to their strengths; She also believes that "under the leadership of pioneering women, there will be more female creators who stand out and get rid of stereotypes." For Fengji herself, her name is increasingly linked to the future of fine jewelry in China, and for this mission and expectation, she said, "I hope this will usher in an era of group portraits, not just individual perspectives." I will adhere to what I have always adhered to, using international design vocabulary, using oriental thinking to control Western high-pearl craftsmanship, and create works that are universal, beautiful, and stand the test of time all over the world, rather than just being alone in the ivory tower. "It is imperative for her to let the light of China's original jewelry shine in the world.
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Photo: Wang Xin
Styling: Fang Jiu
EDITED BY MIA ZHANG
Written by: Xibei (Guo Caijie), Luo Huai (Yingze),
Lexi Chen as Lexi Chen
Coordinating Editor: Julie Wang
Executive Production: Fatboy Productions
Makeup: Beata Xu, Taka Lam
Ruby (Fengji)
Hairstyles: Zhou Xueming (Guo Caijie), Li Jiasu (Yingze), IAN (Fengji)
Nails: NaNa
Costume assistants: Orch Leung, Levi, Wen Wen, Niao Niao
Production Assistants: Wendy Wang, ColourYan, Rhys Yang
WeChat editor: Xibei
WeChat design: Lele