What an Eye-opening and the most avant-garde Designer

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Reading guide: the Moving Forbidden City was designed by Hu Xiaodan in 1995, before when Chinese costume designers barely had a say in international fashion trade. However, it was the Moving Forbidden City which has brought new look to Chinese costume designers in front of international costume designing. On the 1996 German Düsseldorf Fashion Fair, the incompatible beauty and glory of this work won the heart of present audience and Hu Xiaodan became “the World’s Most Avant-Garde Designer.” 

The Moving Forbidden City was designed by Hu Xiaodan in 1995, before when Chinese costume designers barely had a say in international fashion trade. However, it was the Moving Forbidden City which has brought new look to Chinese costume designers in front of international costume designing. On the 1996 German Düsseldorf Fashion Fair, the incompatible beauty and glory of this work won the heart of present audience and Hu Xiaodan became “the World’s Most Avant-Garde Designer.”

This series has fully demonstrated Hu’s breakthrough in costume design tradition by which he was inspired by the architecture of Forbidden City. He boldly utilizes and transforms the elements in Chinese traditional architecture such as forms, carvings, colors and gilding into the costume design. This combination offers audience a chance to enjoy both traditional Chinese costume and charms of the Forbidden City in centuries.