exhibitions 2011

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yiqing yinGaleries Lafayette, Toulon horaires

Yiqing Yin studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. Her work reveals a new approach towards fashion, resulting in her being awarded the “Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris”. Her first collection, called Exile, which was presented at the International Festival of Fashion and Photography at Hyères in 2010, has since been exhibited in the display windows of the French Ministry of Culture at the Palais-Royal and at the Galerie Joyce, in Paris, who invited her to exhibit her dreamlike designs in February, 2011.
She emigrated from China at the age of four, and was then tossed between several countries, consequently her clothes have often acted as a reference point: “Reunited with my clothes, I was once again reinhabiting my body and my emotions; I was at home.” She also wished to create a garment which protects and reinforces, at the same time both a second skin and a loose armour.
Exploring the dynamic capacities of pleats, she creates structures which are never fixed and shapes that are mutating. She sculpts the empty space around the body as a guideline, searching for balance and breaking points between the flowing zones and the sculpted zones.
The modernisation of smocking and the elimination of any hierarchy of assembly, provide her with great scope for experimentation. Consequently, she designs flowing shapes of a stunning architecture. She admits her attraction towards intuitive design methods, a sensory nomadism, and a search for accidents of fortune. Each encounter opens a new possible path, a new identity.


With the support of Galeries Lafayette