Guo Pei (Chinese: 郭培, Mandarin pronunciation: [ku̯ó pʰěɪ̯], born 1967) is a Chinese fashion designer

Guo Pei (Chinese: 郭培, Mandarin pronunciation: [ku̯ó pʰěɪ̯], born 1967) is a Chinese fashion designer. Guo is the second born-and-raised Asian designer to be invited to become a guest member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture after Lebanese designer Elie Saab. In 2016, Time Magazine listed her as one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People. Guo was born to two members of China’s Communist Party, her father being a former battalion leader of the People’s Army and her mother being a kindergarten teacher. In an interview with Forbes Magazine, she recalls her father having thrown away her sketches and paintings as a child. In the same interview Guo says she got her start in sewing at the age of 2 years old, helping her mother make clothes for the winter and developed her love for dressmaking. During her childhood, Mao suits were considered the only correct form of clothing and Guo Pei defied this with loose fitting dresses. Despite the otherwise oppressive fashion enforced, she still went to study and graduate from Beijing Second Light Industry School with a degree in fashion design in 1986.In 2008, Guo conceived a canary yellow floor-length dress with a large circular train, edged with yellow coloured fur and embroidered with silver floral patterns. It took approximately 50,000 hours over two years for her design team to create and weighed about 25 kg (55 lb) on completion. Singer Rihanna came across the piece on the internet while researching a design for the China-themed New York Met Gala in 2015. This media exposure made Guo more recognizable among Western audiences. Guo Pei’s works were also exhibited at the annual exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, titled “China: Through the Looking Glass”. In 2016, Guo Pei became a guest member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Her first collection to be showcased as a part of Paris Fashion Week was her Spring Summer 2016 collection. Most recently Guo Pei’s Haute Couture Spring/Summer Show was considered to embody life through her use of forestry and roots in her runway setups to the designs of her clothing themselves. Guo Pei described her work as representing a life force of roots and flowers, explaining, “Roots are the source of life and vitality…Without roots, there’s not life. This world is a very mysterious place, but it’s linked intimately with our lives. That’s why the tree is onstage, and you’ll see a lot of flowers.” One of the connecting pieces in Guo Pei’s collections, however, is the use of gold in a lot of her shows. Guo Pei believes that not only does gold embody the top of terms of knowledge and wealth, but Guo Pei also believe that it is, “the color of our souls.”if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways -- source link

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