Interview with Rong Zhang
Rong Zhang is a Chinese Womenswear Fashion Designer. Her collection is defined by its artistic fusion of craftsmanship, modern femininity, and youth culture influences with a sense of refined ease.
Designer of the Day Interview
25 April 2018
I am a Chinese Womenswear Fashion Designer. My collection is defined by its artistic fusion of craftsmanship, modern femininity, and youth culture influences with a sense of refined ease. Inspiration drawn from contemporary art, subculture is combined with an emphasis on tailoring and the manipulation of fabrics. Balanced between tradition and modernity, harmony and contradiction, I creates thought-provoking silhouettes through breaking the garment stereotype.
Under the influence of my parents, who engage in trading children clothing, I have grown up with an unyielding interest in clothing color and fabric. I often painted the sketches of costumes in my imagination and sewed clothes for baby dolls. I steadfastly insist that clothes are alive in the hands of the owner's personality and designer’s ideas. After graduating from high school, I believed in my enduring passion in fashion design and strong spatial imagination. Therefore, I decided to give up the study of science and decided to get into costume design profession.
Initially focused on making a garment installation, I waved the colorful elastic bands on the netting fabric, and transformed the 3D waving fabric into 2D digital printing. Moving on, I used digital printing images to develop new shapes and different fabric manipulation like the layering organza, the pearling edge georgette.
excited but stressful at sometimes
I received her Bachelor degree in Womenwear from London Collage of Fashion in 2015. Using rich and geometrical patterns, the art of folding, creating volume through construction, my undergraduate collection has been featured in leading publications such as Vogue. For the intricately crafted, multi-layered garments and explorations into digital printing, digital embroidery and weaving techniques, my collections has been selected for ‘The Chinese Festival’ Exhibition in London V&A Museum 2013, ‘1ndependent15’ Design Show in London 2015 and ‘The Costume Colloquium V-Restraint and Excess in Dress’ Exhibition in Florence 2016, ‘Midwest Fashion Week 2017’and ‘FashionX Runway Austin 2017’. In the past accolades have included ‘Raffles Design Institution First Year Scholarship’ (2010), ‘The top 15 Designer for Tomorrow Award’ (2015).In future, I plan to set up personal design brand.
have a clear market vision and understand their customer
I would like to sleep and wake up early everyday, and focus on work after a simple breakfast.
In spare time, I like go through the magazine and galleries, to catch up the new trends.
fresh idea，and functional for the life
When the design has been finished and reach more than 90 percent to my imagination
The latest 'Traces' Collection, which took me one year to finished everything from researching.
Vivienne Westwood's fashion. Her distinctive style of work, the control over the entire design and selection of good ideas greatly impressed me. It also taught me how to judge the beauty of a design through the mix of a clear concept and different clothing items combination.
I am born in China, the eastern culture has affected my design a lot, like the Chinese embroidery, costume and fabric. The traditional cultures of China has inspired my design and techniques, since I study fashion design at UK and US, which extend my vision.
Normally I worked by myself, but I collaborate with many people from other field like photographers, makeup artists and models.
give a new idea to the public
A’ Design Award gives me a great platform to evaluate my designs, and meet many talented designers around the world
Design Legend Interview
25 April 2018
I am a Chinese Womenswear Fashion Designer. My collection is defined by its artistic fusion of craftsmanship, modern femininity, and youth culture influences with a sense of refined ease.Balanced between tradition and modernity, harmony and contradiction, I creates thought-provoking silhouettes through breaking the garment stereotype. I received her Bachelor degree in Womenwear from London Collage of Fashion in 2015. Using rich and geometrical patterns, the art of folding, creating volume through construction, My undergraduate collection has been featured in leading publications such as Vogue. For the intricately crafted, multi-layered garments and explorations into digital printing, digital embroidery and weaving techniques, my collections has been selected for ‘The Chinese Festival’ Exhibition in London V&A Museum 2013, ‘1ndependent15’ Design Show in London 2015 and ‘The Costume Colloquium V-Restraint and Excess in Dress’ Exhibition in Florence 2016, ‘Midwest Fashion Week 2017’and ‘FashionX Runway Austin 2017’. In the past accolades have included ‘Raffles Design Institution First Year Scholarship’ (2010), ‘The top 15 Designer for Tomorrow Award’ (2015).
Under the influence of my parents, who engage in trading children clothing, I have grown up with an unyielding interest in clothing color and fabric. I often painted the sketches of costumes in my imagination and sewed clothes for baby dolls. I steadfastly insist that clothes are alive in the hands of the owner's personality and designer’s ideas. After graduating from high school, I believed in my enduring passion in fashion design and strong spatial imagination. Therefore, I decided to give up the study of science and decided to get into costume design profession.
I love fashion design and become a designer followed with my heart
Womenswear fashion
concentration, hard working
detail focusing
unique and have a clear customer
a good design opens a new lifestyle
My family
Couture collections combined with modern techniques
keep updating and improving my design, like materials and researching
Susan Hefuna, her artworks of sketches and constructions has inspired the texture in my fashion collection
Vivienne Westwood. Her distinctive style of work, the control over the entire design and selection of good ideas greatly impressed me. It also taught me how to judge the beauty of a design through the mix of a clear concept and different clothing items combination.
The latest collection 'Traces', I challenged different fabric manipulation like the layering organza, the pearling edge georgette. Finding inspiration from my personal art performance.
learning and accepting new ideas from others
doctor maybe
A bridge to explore the world
my father and mother.
mistakes，I made mistakes all the time, and improved myself after.
courage to start the project again
know who they design for
I plan to take a break first, and might start some designs for childrenswear.
set up personal brand and a strong design team.
give them something fresh
Good design make daily life convenient，and make normal staffs unique
The 'Traces' collection, I made everything all by myself, from researching to finishing. The first garment piece took me 3 month to finish.
more opportunities for emerging designers and brands
more focus on customer instead of brand itself
depends on projects
depends on projects
Do what I love , with my efforts
the tool push my design further
elements that essential
What they think of from my design?
Remember it first
have strong human relationship and like learning new things.
My undergraduate professor
Pattern Magic
practice personal skills and learn new skills
singer Chenyu Hua
be famous is not hard, feel accomplishment is hard
yellow, my hometown qingdao, chinese soup, summer, ski, Acne Studio, JW. Anderson
The first design I made is a violin made by milk paper box and threads, when I am 8.
when I finished something in my mind
I never think I will do design, before high school. I thought I will be a doctor like my grandmother.
Design become more digital
Designer Interview
25 April 2018
Under the influence of my parents, who engage in trading children clothing, I have grown up with an unyielding interest in clothing color and fabric. I often painted the sketches of costumes in my imagination and sewed clothes for baby dolls. I steadfastly insist that clothes are alive in the hands of the owner's personality and designer’s ideas. After graduating from high school, I believed in my enduring passion in fashion design and strong spatial imagination. Therefore, I decided to give up the study of science and decided to get into costume design profession.
I am a Chinese Womenswear Fashion Designer. My collection is defined by its artistic fusion of craftsmanship, modern femininity, and youth culture influences with a sense of refined ease.Balanced between tradition and modernity, harmony and contradiction, I creates thought-provoking silhouettes through breaking the garment stereotype. I received her Bachelor degree in Womenwear from London Collage of Fashion in 2015. Using rich and geometrical patterns, the art of folding, creating volume through construction, My undergraduate collection has been featured in leading publications such as Vogue. For the intricately crafted, multi-layered garments and explorations into digital printing, digital embroidery and weaving techniques, my collections has been selected for ‘The Chinese Festival’ Exhibition in London V&A Museum 2013, ‘1ndependent15’ Design Show in London 2015 and ‘The Costume Colloquium V-Restraint and Excess in Dress’ Exhibition in Florence 2016, ‘Midwest Fashion Week 2017’and ‘FashionX Runway Austin 2017’. In the past accolades have included ‘Raffles Design Institution First Year Scholarship’ (2010), ‘The top 15 Designer for Tomorrow Award’ (2015).
dig fresh idea from the normal life
garment pieces, flyers
Vivienne Westwood's fashion. Her distinctive style of work, the control over the entire design and selection of good ideas greatly impressed me. It also taught me how to judge the beauty of a design through the mix of a clear concept and different clothing items combination.
My womenswear collection of AW17 for the Austin Fashion Week
I like playing with different fabric and fine art materials. I have use acrylic to transform the paper pattern into acrylic pattern for part of material in my fashion collection, which is interesting.
go to the gallery
the shape and construction, and the interesting way to play around texture
Sense of accomplishment but stressful, since the designs still can be improved and better.
fresh， functional
is this design fit for its customer?
lead a trend, make the life convenient
the emerging of design will get faster, and connect with digital world
SAIC Design Show，chicagoI plan to attend an exhibition at China in 2018.
Inspiration drawn from contemporary art, subculture is combined with an emphasis on tailoring and the manipulation of fabrics. Balanced between tradition and modernity, harmony and contradiction, I am interesting to create thought-provoking silhouettes through breaking the garment stereotype.
An artistic fusion of craftsmanship, modern femininity, and youth culture influences with a sense of refined ease.
I am born in China, the eastern culture has affected my design a lot, like the Chinese embroidery, costume and fabric. The traditional cultures of China has inspired my design and techniques, since I study fashion design at UK and US, which extend my vision.
I am doing design and development for fashion companies. At free time, I am working as a fashion design teacher to help student on portfolio and techniques.
have a clear vision to the customer designed for
depends on each collection. Some collections I start with researching, but some collections I start with draping or sketching. Then transform 2D ideas into 3D
a normal day but you can make it special
always reaching new things, not only in your field.
nice title, but stressful behind
self reflection
researching and development
Photoshop, sketchbook
pick up the spare time
really depends, can be one day or three month
What do you do as a designer?
working at J.Mendel company at NYC
Actress Sharon ZhangSinger Elaine WangDJ Princess Julia
I like dong design development, to make 2D into 3D
learning marketing skills and set up personal design brand
I develop my design myself
The ideology of my latest is that when you erase the traces, you destroy beauty. Luck and Misfortune comes in turn. The things you experienced, no matter good or bad, they are part of your body.The starting point came from experimenting with Waving Textile and Bias Fabric Manipulation. Initially focused on making a garment installation, I waved the colorful elastic bands on the netting fabric, and transformed the 3D waving fabric into 2D digital printing. Moving on, I used digital printing images to develop new shapes and different fabric manipulation like the layering organza, the pearling edge georgette.
Email: rzhangvivia@gmail.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rongzhang_fashion/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rong-zhang-679373115/