White silk – Spress https://en.spress.net Spress is a general newspaper in English which is updated 24 hours a day. Sat, 08 May 2021 02:25:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 191965906 Bringing Vietnamese silk to the Vietnamese https://en.spress.net/bringing-vietnamese-silk-to-the-vietnamese/ Sat, 08 May 2021 02:25:08 +0000 https://en.spress.net/bringing-vietnamese-silk-to-the-vietnamese/ With skillful hands, creative mind, artist Nghiem Thi Thu Huong, Director of Dong Huong Trading and Production Co., Ltd. (Van Phuc, Ha Dong, Hanoi) always researches and produces many fashionable products. quality, accessories, and souvenirs made from Vietnamese silk.
Thu Huong returned to work as a bride in the traditional silk village of Van Phuc. She and her husband used to open a silk weaving workshop and then sew into fashion products according to the orders of exporting companies. Silk industry has helped her family have a stable income for more than 10 years. However, she still felt that was not enough. She wants to make fashion products from silk by herself and deliver them to consumers.

She discussed with her husband to stop sewing and open a shop selling silk products. She named the silk establishment Dong Huong-grafted from the couple’s name as a guarantee to customers about the quality and origin of the product. Instead of mass production, many Dong Huong silk products are handmade. Therefore, the time and effort of the craftsman put into a silk product is also more. For example, to complete a scarf, it takes 5 hours to finish a handkerchief while a machine only needs 15-20 minutes. Completing a silk tie from cut, pressed, and hand-sewn takes 3 hours. The silk blanket is made up of hundreds of colorful silk fabrics that require 5 meticulous craftsmen to staple combs, sew hands … Ms. Thu Huong hopes that Vietnamese silk will gradually become familiar with domestic customers. Ms. Huong shared, just looking at the product can appreciate the craftsmanship and love of silk workers. A skillful and meticulous worker will give a steady, smooth path; on the contrary, the rush and rush can damage the silk. Huong especially loves and cherishes silk and wants products made by the company to be beautiful, perfect and diverse in designs and types. Dong Huong Silk Factory is one of the first establishments to market the “Miss Tam” ao dai wearing with skirts, which has become a “hot trend” for many women. Ms. Huong also launched a wide range of flare skirts, hugging skirts, long skirts and silk dresses for the evening parties, receptions … With shirts, she also designs many long designs; and silk scarves are attached to silk flowers to help women wear a scarf fast and still beautiful. Never been trained in fine arts and fashion, but with her sense of aesthetics and passion for silk, Huong always has unique innovations and creations on silk. For example, she has created the form of painting on high quality silk. From a white silk, she used the watermarking method, colored scales on the water, then gently put the silk on. Silk sheets are printed with special colors, creating beautiful, varied patterns and patterns, without any fragments. In addition, she also has hand-painted silk products with flowers and leaves, pictures of many landscapes … very beautiful. The color painted on silk is durable and soft, not cracked or broken like other silk printing. Ms. Huong said: “Me and the members of the company really want to bring Vietnamese silk closer to the Vietnamese people. In order for everyone to be able to use silk products in everyday life … When silk becomes more attached to life, silk making will have a chance to thrive again ”.

]]> 12302 The portraits of the Queen Nam Phuong are reproduced through fashion language https://en.spress.net/the-portraits-of-the-queen-nam-phuong-are-reproduced-through-fashion-language/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:50:06 +0000 https://en.spress.net/the-portraits-of-the-queen-nam-phuong-are-reproduced-through-fashion-language/ The image of Queen Nam Phuong with an elegant temperament, the calendar was reproduced through the fashion language of designer Cuong Dam.

Designer Cuong Dam has marked his fashion journey with a collection of FUSION inspired by the East and the West, the beauty of the past and present is conveyed in parallel with the spirit of royal approval. Nam Phuong, bringing a contemporary breath to each design.

Throughout the collection are contemporary images developed from many popular materials such as peach bibs, four-piece flaps, do paper fans. The Phuc Viet inspiration at the same time also becomes a stretching red thread.

Each outfit is favorably given its own name. ROSEWOOD is inspired by the white silk dress of Queen Nam Phuong, with improvised folds on a minimalistic form. Or, TIMBER combines bold menswear inspiration with the image of a calendar queen in a sleeveless dress.

Peach bibs are cleverly integrated with contemporary innovations, reminiscent of old memories of Northern girls with slim shoulders and sexy bee backs. At the same time, it is also the designer’s intention to highlight the hidden charm of the old woman.

Designer Cuong Dam brought the image of cones, palm leaves fan, paper fan, areca fruit on his costume.

The movement of the paper fans creates rhythmic contours from sleeve to chest cup creases, resonating with raglan hand curled with youthful ruffles.

Prominent on the SAPELE blazer is the button detail developed from the areca image – becoming a unique highlight for this design.

Intangible cultural heritages such as Nam Son mat are cleverly integrated into the trendy outfits. Crinkle Crepe Wool is inspired by the papyrus mat surface, along with the curvaceous cuts like a palm leaf fan.

The process of studying Vietnamese costumes with variations has brought the design a cross between traditional and modern. Since then, promoting the spirit of freedom, freedom, and creative breakthroughs.

The FUSION collection is also a declaration of an independent modern woman from the perspective of designer Cuong Dam.

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