Traveling Everywhere

The fingertip magic of the Suzhou embroiderer who split a silk thread into 128 strands, the Nanjing brocade loom with only five centimeters of time per day, the thousand-year-old achievement of "opening the warp and breaking the weft" of the tapestry... These silent, "outdated" Made in China are not specimens in museums, but the real ink pond where the protagonist "puts pen to paper". What the novel is about is how the contemporary generation of craftsmen turn their flesh and blood into the warp and weft of the stretch frame, and how their fingerprints and body temperature are seen by the world through pieces of stunning clothing. This is the return of dignity from "Made in China" to "Exquisitely Made in China". The idea: How can a silk thread threaded from the depths of five thousand years of civilization pierce the century-old hegemony of Western fashion and embroider a shocking "Chinese pattern" on the global stage. Shen Yan is a fashion designer with the talent of "making flowers come out of the pen", but his "wonderful strokes" are not his natural inspiration, but the strong manufacturing accumulation of the whole of China behind him - the fingertip magic of the Suzhou embroidery girl who can split a silk thread into 128 strands, the Nanjing brocade loom that only has five centimeters of time in a day, and the "double-sided three-different embroidery" and other stunts that are on the verge of being lost. With this silent confidence, he set foot on the world fashion battlefield with Paris, New York and Milan as the axis. However, the stage has long been monopolized by Pride and Prejudice. His designs have been ridiculed as "ghosts in museums". International brands have misappropriated elements at will but accused him of "plagiarism". He has also been bullied by businesses. The most humiliating thing was that at the first show at the Grand Palais in Paris, the organizer ordered his work to be a stepping stone for insulting the Chinese brand. Faced with the provocation, Shen Yan chose to fight back in an incredible way: he took advantage of the trick and made the "Moon Shadow" robe, which incorporated the essence of "double-sided three-different embroidery", flipped over on the T stage, instantly showing an oriental edge that suffocated the audience. This shot tore apart a corner of the iron curtain in the Western fashion industry. Since then, he has turned the ferocious facial patterns of Liangzhu gods and animals into the totem of life on the African land; he has turned the cracks in the opening of Song porcelain into a fashion storm on the streets of North America; and in European royal haute couture, he used tapestry techniques to make the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" flow like ink on the skirt. This is an "aesthetic war" without gunpowder. Shen Yan uses the needle as his pen and the brocade as his ink. He not only wants to defeat the weak in the commercial struggle, but also proves to the world that the "blank space" and "artistic conception" in Chinese aesthetics are not exotic customs, but a top philosophy that can lead the world. When the "Kyushu Fantasy" series, embroidered with mythical beasts from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", appeared as the finale of the global press conference, the world finally realized that the right to speak in fashion had been irreversibly deflected. Shen Yan is the one who holds this needle; and China's strong manufacturing power and immortal aesthetics are the thread that lasts for thousands of years. As long as the rivers continue to flow and the looms keep running back and forth, this beautiful chapter on the brocade will surely live forever. Highlights of this book · Cultural Business War: With the extremely intellectual "conspiracy", we will teach you to use the depth of civilization to break through pride and prejudice. · Inheritance of craftsmanship: Behind every piece of gorgeous clothing that amazes the world is the modern rebirth of an endangered intangible cultural heritage skill. · Aesthetic dimensionality reduction: When minimalism comes to an end, how "implicitness, artistic conception and blank space" from the East become the new global belief.