YAN XIA
Yixuan Nie
About this Item
- Title
- YAN XIA
- Description
- 2024 Fashion Design MFA graduate thesis collection created by Yixuan Nie. Presented on September 10, 2024 at 'Beyond: Design MFA Showcase.
- M.F.A. in Fashion Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York 2024.
- Department: Fashion Design
- Artist's Statement
- As a designer from Beijing, China, Yixuan Nie draws inspiration from her hometown. In her design, you can see many traditional Chinese elements integrated into modern clothing through printing, flocking, and handcrafted sculptures. She hopes to use the beauty of silhouette to convey what she has seen in everyday life on Beijing’s old streets. She deeply loves the joy that colors bring, so in her work, vivid colors reflect her sense of a relaxed atmosphere, presenting a contemporary China that combines modernity and tradition.
- About This Collection:
- In this thesis, "YAN XIA", Yixuan Nie has gathered different character images and everyday scenes from her personal photography to create vignettes that show the day-to-day lifestyle, aesthetics, and social norms of people in Beijing and also to depict the ways that past and present collide on a Beijing street. Images of objects and street interactions juxtapose ancient Chinese traditional culture and contemporary Beijing. These images were translated into prints and seaming details that highlight the often overlooked yet precious details of ordinary reality in China today. Yan Xia offers an alternate, personal, and novel image of contemporary China that contrasts the stereotypical Western focus on its archaic roots.
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: fd_mfa_000047
- Related Materials
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Beyond: Fashion Design MFA 2024 Graduate Showcase
Citation
Nie, Y. (). YAN XIA. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/396198
Nie, Yixuan. YAN XIA. . FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/396198
Nie, Yixuan. "YAN XIA." FIT Digital Repository, . https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/396198