The dragon is our fashion symbol that has never faded. These spiritual symbols that are integrated into the flesh and blood of Chinese people are also the source of the beauty of our cultural confidence. The horse-faced skirt, developed from the spiral skirt of the Song Dynasty, embodies a unique oriental charm. When the horse-faced skirt meets the Year of the Dragon, it is the most "trendy" collaboration in this Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival, buying new clothes to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new is a ritual for many people. This Year of the Dragon ritual has a new trend, and various horse-faced skirts have become the "New Year's shirt" for many young people. In the Spring Festival "flower markets" on the streets of Guangdong, Fujian and other places, horse-faced skirts and colorful flowers complement each other, becoming a beautiful scenery during the Spring Festival.
Jiang Lai, a child from Guangzhou: Wearing such beautiful clothes on such a good festival makes me feel very good.
Xiamen citizen Lai Xiuyun: The suit I am wearing today has some dragon elements, which just fits the theme of this year’s Year of the Dragon. I feel it is also more in line with the cultural connotation and vitality of the Chinese people as the descendants of the dragon.
Xiamen citizen Fu Mengtao: It can help more people get to know our traditional costumes, make them more ceremonial, and pay more attention to our traditional festivals.
Fashion designer Lin Qi has a collection of nearly a hundred horse-faced skirts from various eras, many of which have exquisite dragon-shaped embroidery. She told reporters that the changes in dragon-shaped embroidery styles in different periods can also be seen in these traditional horse-faced skirts..
Costume Designer Lin Qi: Especially in the early stage, the dragon head of the horse-faced skirt was particularly large. The dragon's head may account for about two-thirds of the entire dragon pattern. It embodies a sense of majesty. In the later stage, the whole body shape and the proportion of the head were reduced. The whole figure was in a high-spirited state, a very vital and positive state.
At the 2023 China International Fashion Week, Lin Qi's innovatively designed dragon-pattern horse-faced skirt parent-child outfit based on the traditional horse-faced skirt embroidery pieces was a hit. Although after more than two hundred years of baptism, the embroidery pieces are exquisite The golden embroidered dragon pattern and sea water river cliff pattern are still shining with gold.
Fashion designer Lin Qi: It is very rare. This is the only piece of embroidered fabric for horse-faced skirt that I have collected. It is very exquisite. It is a children's version of a horse-faced skirt, but it was not finished, so I made this parent-child outfit, because many things need to be seen in life for it to have vitality.
On the basis of traditional styles and techniques, new elements and designs are added to explore the integration of traditional clothing and modern life. In September 2023, Lin Qi brought the horse-faced skirt design work to Paris Fashion Week and presented it in the international fashion show, showing the unique oriental aesthetic charm.
Fashion designer Lin Qi: First of all, we combined a variety of fabrics, such as making our traditional horse-faced skirt an extension of a dress, but it also has strong traditional cultural attributes. More and more people choose to wear clothing with their own cultural attributes on very important occasions. More and more people are proud to wear clothing with Chinese elements. This is an expression of confidence.
