London Fashion Week: the art, philosophy and fashion of Renli Su
- By Heiko Khoo
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However, as she freely admits, almost everyone who is not Chinese detects a clear Chinese influence in her designs.
Renli Su's almost subliminal assimilation of Chinese tradition contrasts with an overt interest in Britain's Victorian era, and in other historical forms of personal and societal representation, as expressed through fashion. The Victorian era can be seen as the origin of the independent woman - on the one side, still contorted by powerful social and cultural restrictions while witnessing an awakening in regard to women's rights and freedoms.
Alongside the emergence of the modern woman, arose the quest for a new sense of beauty.
Su returns to the Orient to describe her aesthetic philosophy. For this, she turns to the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-sabi, in which objects and designs evoke a sense of melancholy and spiritual longing. It is a philosophy of imperfection, transience and a sense of the unfinished. Indeed, Renli Su's label delves into the meaning of how time and memory can become an integral experience that is somehow captured in the wearer's clothes.
Her website is: www.renlisu.com
Heiko Khoo is a columnist with China.org.cn. For more information please visit: http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/heikokhoo.htm
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