KUCHING: Renowned fashion designer Fan Yan Yan of China will be showing off her ‘The Art Silk’ designs during the Best of Asean Designers 2019 (BOAD2019) at The Spring shopping mall from Sep 6 to 8.
An icon of sophistication and graceful style, Fan is best known for her unique creations of silk scarves.
The fine-arts graduate believes many artistic treasurers scattered along the ancient international trade route harbour “authentic” inspirations from humanity, religion and nature rather than modern commercialism.
Fan started her studio to paint on silk — the best and irreplaceable material — crystallising ancient China’s wisdom and beauty and went on to paint her memories of Dunhuang on silk for 40 days straight.
Fan launched her eponymous brand “Fan YanYan” in 2009. She integrates tradition with fashion, life with art to tell Chinese stories, and form Fan Yanyan’s silk art with unique concepts and value systems, so that the world can reinterpret the beauty of Chinese silk art and make the world understand and love Chinese traditional culture more.
Fan has more than 400 patented designs with the silk road culture as the theme, forming several major product areas with silk artwork, silk cultural gifts and silk art decorating as the main line and involving products like silk scarves, purses, umbrellas, clothing and household goods.
Among them are “Freedom”, “Zodiac”, “Pure Land” “EAWC”, “Pelden Lhamo”, “Encounter” and “Pheonix Comes from the East” and other silk artistic works that have been collected by international dignitaries and celebrities or entered the world stage as diplomatic gifts.
Fan is the first Chinese woman to win the “Artemis Goddess Award” for two consecutive terms and was honoured by the Global Women’s Forum in the US Congress.
She was also titled as the “first person in Chinese silk art”. Her works have also been collected by former US President Barack Obama and other dignitaries.
Fan is an esteemed member and fashion ambassador of the Asean Fashion Designer Showcase representing China.
