The dragon is our unfading fashion symbol, these spiritual symbols that are integrated into the flesh and blood of Chinese children, and also the source of the beauty of our cultural self-confidence. The horse-faced skirt, developed from the rotary skirt of the Song Dynasty, interprets a unique oriental charm. When the horse face skirt meets the Year of the Dragon, it is the most "trendy" joint name in this Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival, buying a new dress to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year is a ritual for many people. This Year of the Dragon ritual has a new trend, and all kinds of horse-faced skirts have become the "New Year's robes" of many young people. In the Spring Festival "flower markets" of all sizes on the streets of Guangdong, Fujian and other places, the horse-faced skirt and colorful flowers set off each other, becoming a beautiful scenery in the Spring Festival.
Jiang Lai, a child from Guangzhou: I feel in a good mood when I wear such beautiful clothes on such a good festival.
Xiamen citizen Lai Xiuyun: The set I am wearing today with some dragon elements just fits the theme of this year's Year of the Dragon, and I feel that it is more in line with the cultural connotation and vitality of the Chinese as the descendants of the dragon.
Xiamen citizen Fu Mengtao: It can let more people know our traditional costumes, have a more sense of ceremony, and pay more attention to our traditional festivals.
Costume designer Lin Qi has a collection of nearly 100 horse-faced skirts from various eras, many of which have exquisite dragon-shaped embroidery. She told reporters that from these traditional horse-faced skirts, you can also see the changes in the shape of dragon-shaped embroidery in different periods.
Fashion designer Lin Qi: Especially in the early stage, the dragon head of the horse-faced skirt is particularly large, and the dragon's head may account for about two-thirds of the entire dragon pattern, which reflects the sense of majesty. In the later stage, the whole body is shaped, and the proportion of the head is reduced, and the whole figure is in a state of high spirit, very vitality and this positive state.
At the 2023 China International Fashion Week, Lin Qi innovatively designed this set of dragon pattern horse-faced skirt parent-child clothes on the basis of the traditional horse-faced skirt embroidery.
Costume designer Lin Qi: It's very rare, this is the only piece of horse face skirt embroidery fabric I have collected, it's very exquisite. It's a children's version of a horse-faced dress, but it's not finished, so I made this parent-child outfit because a lot of things have to be seen in life for it to have life.
On the basis of traditional styles and craftsmanship, new elements and new designs are added to explore the integration of traditional clothing and modern life. In September 2023, Lin Qi brought the horse-faced skirt design works to Paris Fashion Week and presented them in the international fashion show, showing the unique oriental aesthetic charm.
Fashion designer Lin Qi: First of all, we made a combination of a variety of fabrics, such as our traditional horse-faced skirt as an extension of the dress, but it has strong traditional cultural attributes. More and more people choose to wear clothing with their own cultural attributes on very important occasions, and more and more people are proud to wear clothes with Chinese elements, which is an expression of self-confidence. (CCTV news client).