China News Service, Shanghai, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Fashion designer Wang Tao shows the charm and vitality of "Chinese design" to the world.
China News Service reporter Jiang Yu.
As a Chinese designer, my work will definitely have elements of Chinese culture in its expression. Chinese culture's understanding of beauty is unique, and I hope to show the world the charm and vitality of 'Chinese design'." Wang Tao, creative director of Jiuzi Juzui and a famous fashion designer, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Service.
A week later, Wang Tao will participate in New York Fashion Week for the 17th time, launching a new autumn and winter series with the theme of "flowers". Juzui is the only Chinese fashion brand on the official calendar of New York Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2024.
In February 2024, the famous fashion designer Wang Tao was interviewed by **. Photo by China News Service reporter Jiang Yu.
After graduating from East China Normal University with a major in history, out of his love for fashion, Wang Tao entered the famous Japanese fashion design institute Tokyo Mode Gaguen to study clothing creative design, and after graduation, he became an assistant designer of the famous Japanese designer Junko Koshino, and then chose to develop in Europe, serving as the chief designer of the British fashion brand "Rebel Belle London" for 4 consecutive years. In 2020, Wang Tao was invited to serve as the creative director of the century-old French fashion brand Charles Jourdan, and since March 2023, he has served as the creative director of the Jiuzi Juzui brand under Anzheng Fashion Group Co., Ltd.
Wang Tao has always observed the world from a multicultural perspective, telling her fashion proposition with a unique design language that blends East and West, and she is also the first person in the Chinese fashion industry to bring the "Made in Shanghai" label to New York Fashion Week.
"Fashion is a very interesting existence that can bring together people who love life and beauty across countries, races, ages, and even genders," Wang said. My design is inspired by every successful woman from all over the world and from all cultural backgrounds, and multiculturalism is in my blood. ”
In 2019, Wang Tao (2nd from right) participated in the 2019 Autumn and Winter New York Fashion Week. (Photo courtesy of the interviewee).
Since becoming the creative director of Juzui, Wang Tao has attracted the attention of more successful and confident women with his unique new Chinese style and new national fashion design proposition. This time to participate in New York Fashion Week, after tracing the source of the Jiuzi Juzui brand for more than 20 years of development, with the theme of "flowers", she selected peony, a flower with Chinese characteristics, as the main picture for original design, with bold color combinations, mix and match collisions, and carried out a "subversive creativity" on fashion.
I chose peony as the protagonist of the 'flower world' I constructed, not only because the culture and charm of peony can best express China, but also because peony is known as the 'flower fairy', symbolizing the diverse customs of women in different periods and different personalities. ”
Wang Tao also spoiled the heavyweight guests of the New York Fashion Week Jiuzi Juzui show: "We invited the 75-year-old model and Internet celebrity who is still active on the runway - Elon Musk's mother Mayer Musk, who will appear in our curtain show. ”
The New York Fashion Week Organizing Committee has strict requirements for catwalk brands, and it is not easy for Chinese brands to be on the official schedule of New York Fashion Week. Zheng Anzheng, chairman of Anzheng Fashion Group, said: "It is a very good thing to be able to let Chinese brands go to the world, but there is also a long way to go. In my opinion, if Chinese fashion brands want to enhance their influence, they must show the heritage and charm of Chinese culture. ”
Liu Peifang, deputy secretary-general of Shanghai Garment Industry Association, believes that Wang Tao has always been committed to showing China's originality on the world fashion stage, and the clothing she designed has entered the world's mainstream fashion circle and become a typical example of Chinese fashion designers going global.
In recent years, many Chinese designers and fashion brands have successfully 'gone overseas' with the help of famous international fashion weeks such as New York Fashion Week, allowing the world to see the unique oriental aesthetic taste and traditional production technology of Chinese fashion. We hope that the exchange between the Chinese and foreign fashion industries will be 'blossoming'. Liu Peifang said. (ENDS).