Chichi Luo

BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear

----+++++++ ALL PIECES ARE NOT IN THE UK　+++++++ ---- ‘Inspirational Youth’ London College of Fashion & TIGI Collaboration 2012 more info: www.tigi.co.uk/ ---------------------------------------- ‘WIMPOLE’ AW12 more info: http://chichiluo.com/wimpole-aw12/ sales contact: info@chichiluo.com ---------------------------------------- Graduate Collection 2011 This Spring/Summer collection is inspired by my trip to Tibet in China last summer. The colour palette is based on photographs, which have taken by myself during the trip. The selected colours are bright, vivid, and energetic, which represent Tibetan people's kindness, boldness, faith and passion to their religion. I bravely play with these colours, and get lots of unique results by using different hand dye techniques. 

 The silhouette of this collection is based on what Tibetan people are wearing, which inspires me to do lots of draping through this collection by using flexible fabric, such as silk chiffon and silk jersey. I then draped and layered them up, to create a new look for Tibetan people. I was inspired by Tibetan women's braided hair. I transferred this idea on to part of my clothes by developing to complicated handcraft techniques such as macramé and knotting. That is why you can see lots of amazing macramé pieces in this collection. Also there are many colourful wooden beads at the end of each rope on macramé, which symbolized the beautiful Buddha prayer beads. Photographer: Sean Michael www.seanmichael.co.uk Model: Anna Michaux @ Select Model Management London www.selectmodel.com Yingzhi Luo - Chi Chi www.chichiluo.com E-mail: rinlochi@hotmail.com Achievement: Finalist of of WGSN Global Fashion Awards 2011 in ‘Most Creative Student Collection’ Exhibitor of London College of Fashion Press Show 2011 One of ‘The best fashion graduates of 2011′ by Vogue.com UK One of '180 emerging designers'&'The best students worldwide' by Vogue Italia Finalist of Nina De York Fashion Illustration Competition 2011 Finalist of H&M Design Award 2011 Shortlist in London College of Fashion 'Fashioning the Future Awards 2011'