Press Release
Ethereal Couture by Linlin Nie Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Linlin Nie for fashion, apparel and garment design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Ethereal Couture by Linlin Nie has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design category. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Ethereal Couture
Ethereal is a couture bridal collection that combines Chinese and Western wedding dress traditions. The collection is made with stiff pleated fabrics, soft silk, lightweight tulle and lace, which create exaggerated silhouettes and a hazy appearance. Embroidery reinterprets traditional mandarin patterns, including dragon and phoenix motifs that stand for nobility and good fortune. Red and white, the typical colors of the East and the West, are both used. The collection responds to the needs of brides who want modern mandarin wedding dresses.
About Linlin Nie
As a fashion designer, I hope to design garments that encourage women to please themselves. These garments are made of delicate fabric in timeless design, comfort, tailoring, and elegant fascination. Moreover, sustainability is the key to fashion in the future. So my designs will be worth wearing for a long time.
Award Record
This recognition makes Linlin Nie a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Award
The A' Fashion Design Award is an international fashion design competition recognizing good fashion designs by best fashion designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to fashion designers, apparel designers, garment designers and textile designers from all countries. Typical entries include runway collections, dresses, suits, skirts, outerwear and jackets. The awarded fashion designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fashion
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/135760
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/135760
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!135760
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/324758
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.behance.net/Chloe-LinlinNie
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ethereal Couture
- Function
- Couture
- Category
- Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design
- Discipline
- Fashion Design
- Industry
- Fashion
- Colors
- Red, Gainsboro, Silver, Crimson and White
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Linlin Nie
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #135760
Credits
- Image Credits
- Linlin Nie, Ethereal, 2022.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This collection is named “Ethereal,” interpreted as a Sprite living in an Ethereal world. The concept of “Ethereal” explores the identity of modern Chinese women in Marriage culture as well through exaggerated silhouettes or unique fabric texture to represent a new image of women, which can be reborn, mysterious, strong, or charming. Through the recreation of traditional mandarin patterns, the totem of Dragon or Phoenix means nobility, magnificence, and auspicious.
- Inspiration
- The silhouette, elements, pattern, and fabrics in this collection were inspired by Dragons, which is an emotional concept in this collection. Dragon symbolizes imperial power, meaning "leading position" in Chinese tradition. The female images in this collection are described as independent, confident, leading their own lives through their cognition. Moreover, the aesthetic reflects the combination of history and modernity, east and West in fashion.
- Research
- The design aims to fulfill the needs of brides for modern Mandarin wedding dresses. Although traditional Chinese brides are familiar with their red wedding dresses, many Chinese brides have begun to wear white wedding dresses nowadays. The westernization of Chinese bride's clothing is a result of the globalization in culture, art, and commerce. Nevertheless, the costumes of various countries embody national culture and history, and they also carry identity symbols of different nationalities. It is essential for Chinese to return to their tradition and explore traditional clothing for the future development of Mandarin clothing.
- Challenge
- As a Chinese fashion designer, it is risky only to interpret Chinese culture in clothing as a Chinese designer because China has more than 5,000 years of class history related to clothing. Chinese clothing had strict regulations and restrictions in the long development history. The "unification of clothing" in developing an independent style distinguishes the Chinese fashion designer from others. I decided to interpret this "Ethereal" collection from a diversified global perspective.
- Realization and Technology
- This collection combines complex fabrics with soft fabrics, using stiff pleated fabrics, soft silk, lightweight Tulle fabric, lace. These fabrics show the collection's silhouette and add feminine femininity to the details. Embroidery techniques add narrative to the collection, which continues traditional Eastern aesthetics to modern Western fashion.
- Operation and Interaction
- This collection combines Eastern and Western wedding dress designs to meet the needs for Oriental weddings. This collection contains the cultural elements of The Mandarin wedding dress, such as the dragon, phoenix and red color. It is modernized by combining to the Western wedding dress. This collection can be placed into the market, which is story-packed and marketable.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2021 in Savannah, USA, and October in 2021 in Savannah, USA, and was exhibited in Savannah in January 2022.
- Specifications
- Dress's size is suitable for USA size 8 Couture technic
- Keywords
- (Chinese bridal wear, Couture design, Embroidery design, Chinese patterns, Evening wear)
