Night Tales Costumul Și Moda by Feiyang Zhang

Night Tales Costumul Și Moda by Feiyang Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Fier in Design de Modă, Îmbrăcăminte și Vestimentație Competition Category.

FierModă· 2021

Night Tales Costumul Și Moda

by Feiyang Zhang

Client: Feiyang Zhang Design

A' Design Award de Fier Winner in Modă Category

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The Design

About Night Tales Costumul Și Moda

Feiyang avea o pasiune pentru toate lucrurile întunecate. Creaturile nocturne; vrăjitoarele și pădurea. Le-a găsit misterioase și incredibil de inspirate. Această colecție a fost inspirată dintr-o serie de basme întunecate. Feiyang și-a scris propriile povești, apoi a creat personaje ciudate, încântătoare. Ea a conceput piese vestimentare care se potrivesc protagoniștilor' caracteristică. În loc să se gândească mai întâi la formele posibile de îmbrăcăminte, Feiyang a derivat linii, forme și textura din natură, cum ar fi aripi de fluture sau scoarțe de copac, aranjează-le în diferite moduri până când anumite forme cresc în mod natural, care pot fi aplicate corpului uman.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fier

Night Tales Costumul Și Moda a câștigat A' Design Award de Fier, o recunoaștere prestigioasă acordată designurilor bune care îndeplinesc cerințele profesionale și industriale așteptate de la creații bine concepute. Câștigătorii Fierului demonstrează mare pricepere, înaltă specializare, înțelegere de specialitate și capacitate creativă din partea creatorilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Night Tales Costumul Și Moda să fie o creație foarte apreciată, admirată și prețuită, practică și inovatoare. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Fier integrează cele mai bune practici din industrie și are caracteristici tehnice competente îmbinate cu know-how și talent. Pentru acuratețea sa, Night Tales Costumul Și Moda merită respect și este conceput pentru a aduce îmbunătățiri ale calității vieții care ajută la facerea lumii un loc mai bun.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This collection is inspired by dark fairytales. Feiyang wrote her own stories then created weird, enchanting characters then design garments that fit their characteristic.

For her, the word darkness conjures all manner of things. Unknown. Unseen. Unimaginable. Unbelievable.

Feiyang enjoys the progress of making design through her own stories; by also incorporate my fabrics she created, she wishes this collection could be storytelling.
Dimensions & Packaging: The whole collection contains 5 looks, size 4 women and size 10 men.
Tags: Costume, Storytelling, Couture, Dark Fairytale, Dark fantasy, Royal College of Art
Production Technology: Instead of thinking of possible garment shapes first, Feiyang would derive lines, forms and texture from nature, like butterfly wings or tree barks, arrange them in various ways until certain forms grow naturally out of that which can also be applied to the human body.

Due to Feiyang's obsession of creating her own fabric, the collection incorporates multiple techniques including hand and machine embroidery, knitting, and screen printing. All shoes and accessories were also handmade by herself.

The creation process is almost the same as a fine artist creating an intuitive artwork.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge was the process of transforming each characters from words to drawings and ultimately into three dimensional forms. Each step requires days of practicing, sampling and prototyping.

Another challenge would be the making of garment, the embroidery were both machine and hand embroidered, which were time consuming and the process requires lots of patience.
Research: The inspiration came from novels, tales and short stories that showcase psychological struggle of different character. The soul of the muses are the twisted personalities of different characters.

Feiyang grew up by reading Lilian Lee and Grimm brother’s fairytales. Their stories are known for their whimsical and supernatural elements; these stories feature combinations of familiar plots, images, and motifs.

After hundreds hours of reading and writing, the weird narratives of Night tales were made.
Inspiration: Feiyang have had a passion for all the dark things. The night creatures; the witches and the forest. She found them mysterious and incredibly inspiring.

Feiyang's design approach is very organic, raw, inherent and artistic. She never start by thinking about which type of garment she wanted to create and what shape it might take any more. Instead, she would looked into herself for inspirations and the nature for references.

This collection is inspired by a series of dark fairytales she wrote.
Project Duration: The project started on March 2017, the initial looks finished in December 2019 in Chicago but more characters are getting made in London 2021. It was featured in Chicago Soho House in May 2017. Also in the Worlds AIDS Day Fashion Show STRUT in December 2017.
Operation Flow: The whole collection is carefully embellished with beading and other embroideries on very light material that has a stable understructure. The wearer can perform, dance freely without too much weights on their body.

All silk organza were hand washed in order to create a softer texture that gives more flow while moving.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Feiyang Zhang, 2020.
Team Members: Designer:Feiyang Zhang
Image Credits: Image #1-5: Photographer Amie Hana/Model Bella Roy and Sarah Hensley/Makeup and Hair Paula De Oliveira Silva/
Designer and Stylist FeiYang Zhang, Night Tales,2018