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2009 NE.TIGER Hua Fu Collection Fashion Show Featuring 'The National Beauty*' 2009 Designer Series

NE.TIGER
2008-11-06 04:04 4129

BEIJING, Nov. 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- On the evening of Nov. 5, 2008, in the Golden Hall of Beijing Hotel, NE·TIGER raised the curtain of the China Fashion Week for the seventh successive year. As the architect of Chinese-inspired fashion, NE.TIGER continued last year's theme of "The National Beauty in China's national dress" by addressing its 2009 collection with "The National Beauty captured in Hua Fu", featuring an embodiment of the quest for renaissance and innovation of Chinese luxury expressed by the words of NE.TIGER founder Mr. Zhang Zhifeng: "infused by a single source, integrating a world of styles..."

(Photo: http://www.prnasia.com/sa/200811060348.jpg )

The setting of this year's show offers a harmonious blend of modern art and fashion, while retaining all the original exquisite charm of the Golden Hall, with a play of light over the thousand-square-meter stage that provides freedom and space to aesthetic expression. The stage-setting breaks away from conventional thinking by involving the audience and the environment together with models, accompanied with a music of sweetly sung Kun opera, the sound of an old Kesi machine which rhythms the footsteps on the T stage. 80 gowns flow like a sea of flowers telling a whispered tale of beauty, legend, and ancient civilization.

One of the highlights of the night being NE.TIGER chief designer Zhang Zhifeng appearing alongside two of dressmaking's elder statesmen; one, Wang Jialiang, the fifth generation of a dynasty of Kesi practitioners whose family made clothes for royalty in history, the other, Wang Yuxiang, the master responsible for the survival of the Kesi skills that were on the brink of extinction. Under the leadership and guidance of these two figures of national repute, the most splendid Kesi elements of the 2009 NE·TIGER Hua Fu series were designed and completed.

China today is a new and prosperous society, but in Hua Fu NE·TIGER has successfully captured the spirit of thousands of years of civilization. Hua Fu combines four distinct but complimentary elements of China's spirit: "courtesy" as the soul, "brocade" as the material, "embroidery" as the skill, and the "national beauty" as the expression of this most Chinese of garments.

Speaking of the "National Beauty" 2009 designer series, Zhang Zhifeng spills over with unconcealed emotion: "The source of inspiration in this collection takes from the essence of peony decorations and patterns from all of China's dynasties and its 56 ethnic groups. At the same time, we integrate contemporary Western three-dimensional cutting techniques in the design, and use our own unique cutting technology to draw out the genius and delicacy of the Eastern frame, so as to achieve the ultimate luxury style among Chinese luxuries. Luxury goods have been a feature of Chinese culture since the earliest times, and we will play our part in what is at once a revival, but also a fresh blossoming, of the art of luxury in China. We hope that as the inheritors of Chinese civilization, we can pass on the classical wealth of luxury through our brand."

NE·TIGER, the light-bearer of traditional Chinese dress culture, has striven to capture five thousand years of Chinese tradition and civilization, in the hope and expectation that through its efforts the flame of this heritage can be rekindled.

* China's 'National Beauty' -- In Chinese literature and poetry, the

peony flower is often referred to as China's 'national beauty'

Source: NE.TIGER
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