The Great Silk Road Womenswear Collection by Alsu Biryukova is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Competition Category.
SilverFashion· 2020
The Great Silk Road Womenswear Collection
Client: Biryukova Alsu
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Fashion Category
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About The Great Silk Road Womenswear Collection
The Great Silk Road is a womenswear collection inspired by the historic trade route that linked East and West. The collection consists of twenty garments, including hats. Each piece is made of natural fabrics and decorated by hand with natural silk ribbons. The headdresses are made entirely by hand from silk fabrics of different textures. The patterns repeat the wind on desert sands, the rice terraces of China and the lines of rock faults. Each item is presented as a postcard from a travel destination. The couture garments can be combined and worn in daily life.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Great Silk Road Womenswear Collection is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. The Great Silk Road Womenswear Collection is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. The Great Silk Road Womenswear Collection is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Hand-Decorated Silk Couture and Womenswear
We create exquisite womenswear featuring hand-sewn silk decoration on natural fabrics. Each piece combines Eastern-inspired artistry with everyday wearability. Our award-winning designs transform silk ribbons into patterns of wind, water, and nature, creating couture clothing that tells a story while remaining comfortable for daily wear.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Most of all I am inspired by people, their traditions, characters, stories, fates. And of course, the extraordinary beauty of our planet.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I was very inspired by the idea of the Great Silk Road. This adventure, and surprise, and anticipation, and loss, and knowledge, and new discoveries, and extraordinary nature, and the most important idea of uniting East and West, which is very close to me. I wanted to tell you about it in a beautiful design language that is accessible to me.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
The bulk of the collection has already been sold out, but I plan to expand this collection. These new things will be lighter, inspired by dawn and spring.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This collection of clothes tells about the Great Silk Road.
Each item is made of natural fabrics and decorated with silk decor by hand. Headdresses are made entirely by hand from silk fabrics of different textures.
Each item is a postcard from different travel destination and tells its story. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The collection consists of 20 items of clothing, including hats. Clothing size SM. All clothes and hats are made of natural fabrics.
- Tags
- couture, silkroad, silk, wind, embroidery
- Production Technology
- For the manufacture of decor in my work, ribbons made of natural silk were used. These ribbons are sewn by hand. Patterns on products repeat patterns of wind in the sand, rice terraces in China, patterns of faults in rocks.
- Design Challenge
- This design was quite complicated in execution, because the main work was done manually. It took a lot of time. And I also wanted to convey a complex range of impressions from studying the history of the Great Silk Road.
- Research
- This collection is an attempt to combine the eastern and western cultures that are inside of me. This is a story about the beauty of the East, as travelers of the Great Silk Road once told about it many centuries ago. Each item is a postcard from different travel destinations or a valuable gift in the East. You can see the rice terraces of China, and the night peonies in the Japanese garden, and the wind patterns on the sands of the desert, and feel the coolness of the oasis, and open the Chinese casket
- Inspiration
- The Great Silk Road is not just a trade route, it is a unique historical phenomenon that introduced two different worlds - east and west. This is the appearance of new cities and countries, this is the spread of science and culture, this is the path to unknown and new discoveries. This collection is my view of the mysterious east. Blooming Japanese gardens, patterns of wind on the sands of the desert, cool oases, desert mirages, rice terraces, varnished Chinese caskets can all be seen in my collection.
- Project Duration
- The project began in 2013, when the first coat in this technique was created.
Then the collection was gradually replenished.
In 2018, an exhibition was held in Russia, the city of Samara, called the Great Silk Road.
in 2018, this collection took part in the contest "New Names in Design", the city of Samara, Russia
in 2018, the collection became the winner of the fashion festival, Russia, Samara.
in 2019, the collection won the Ulyanovsk fashion week contest - Operation Flow
- All garments look alive. Different items of clothing go well together.
This is a couture clothing that is comfortable to wear in everyday life. - Image Credits
- image 1: photographer Malushkina Tatyana, 2018
image 2: photographer Malushkina Tatyana, 2018
image 3: photographer Alena Ostankova, 2019
image 4: photographers Alena Ostankova, 2019
image 5: photographer Malushkina Tatyana, 2018
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