On December 16th, the Commission de classement Couture Création of the French {Ministère de l'Industrie held a meeting at the Fédération française de la Couture and awarded the Haute Couture appellation to Yiqing Yin.

Yiqing Yin is the first Chinese born designer to receive such a distinction.

"Haute Couture is a free area of expression, a lab," stated Yin, who is also designing for French fashion house Léonard Paris. "We need to carry a new language, in harmony with our generation, to come up with a new beauty ideal. We have to innovate, to create emotion, to generate a fresh energy in order to bring couture into a new environment."

Picture courtesy of Pressing.