A sneak preview of a future presentation
Monday, March 7th, L’Appart Press Office
2009: Winner of the « Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris. 2010: Singled out at the Hyères Fashion Festival, praised by a full-page in Vogue; Jean-Jacques Picard declared that he was very optimistic concerning the launch of her collection, because it would be « the right time to give it a shot »… Some designers’ careers start fast. Too fast? « I try to keep a cool head » says Yiqing Yin, a Sino-French stylist who came to France at the age of four after the Tiananmem Square protests. She spent her childhood in France, her adolescence in Australia and came back to France in order to study at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris - a solid training that enabled her to develop an original concept: how to turn a flat material into a textured structure? One of her first pieces was a stockman draped in a huge cloth: sunray pleats, contrasts between flowing lines and architectural shapes, like a soft, limp armour, pin tucks… In a few silhouettes, the underlying characteristics of her designs are already discernable. This probably explains everything… Her rich and romantic style, influenced by the surrealist artist Hans Bellmer, is a linear accumulation. Every presentation tells us a different story.
For « The dreamer », exhibited in February 2011 at the art gallery Joyce Paris, Yiqing Yin tried to “ feed the emotion” of travelling, and express the sensation of exile by abandoning the traditional technical approach of dressmaking. The result was a spiral and vaporous fabric, a "nearly immaterial effect….”, she explains. « Ouvrir Vénus », however, evokes a more tortured beauty ideal. It was presented in March 2011 to a few fashion foward boutiques (Maria Luisa Printemps and Franck & Fils Paris, Joyce and Lane Crawford Hong Kong). With this mini collection, Yiqing Yin intends to show her ability to conform to reality and design wearable clothes: dresses, mini jackets, trousers…all of them are made of feather silk jersey, a fabric that adapts to both fluid and structured cuts. « It refers to a woman whose womb has been ripped open » she indicates. Let’s bet that this anatomical introspection is what she will need to create her first real eponymous Summer 2012 collection. The No Season showroom is already interested.
www.yiqingyin.com
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