The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games is like a large down jacket grass planting scene, but do you know that Chen Peng and Wang FengChen, two young designers in the costume design team of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, have deep roots with Shanghai Fashion week. With their original design, they not only boarded the T-stage of Shanghai Fashion week for many times, but also obtained many industry resources with the help of the platform of Shanghai Fashion Week, helping them gradually grow into the leader of local new design forces.
Chen Peng, born in 1991 in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, graduated from the London Fashion Institute in 2015, majoring in men’s wear, and founded the brand “Chenpeng” in London in the same year. In 2021, he stood out from the “audition” of 50 groups of designers all over the country and was selected into the clothing team of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. He worked with two other designers to complete the clothing design of the opening ceremony.
These designs include the pole lifter’s clothes in the first part of the program “beginning of spring”, the future hockey player’s clothes in the second part of the program “five rings of ice and snow”, the flag lifter’s clothes of national flags in the third part, the roller skater’s performance clothes in the fourth part of the link “paying tribute to the people”, and the peace dove children’s clothes in the dance of the theme song “snowflake” of the fifth part of the Winter Olympic Games. In particular, the clothing in the fifth part integrates the paper-cut culture and art of Hebei intangible cultural heritage in the design, reorganizes the paper-cut with the words “peace” and “Fu” to form the final version of the “new Chinese window flower” pattern, leaving an unforgettable impression on the audience.
Shanghai Fashion Week Organizing Committee told reporters. In April 2016, Chen Peng, who is in the initial stage of brand creation, took his new series to the mode exhibition of Shanghai Fashion Week in autumn and winter 2016, which was recognized and praised by the managers of internationally famous buyer stores such as opening ceremony and h. Lorenzo. During Shanghai Fashion Week in autumn and winter of 2021, Chen Peng won the championship of “Yu prize creative Grand Prix in 2021”. In addition to the cash reward of RMB 1 million, he also received one-year guidance from Italian fashion group OTB.
The blue and white coat is painted with undulating mountains, and the above Oriental Pearl Group Co.Ltd(600637) tower, the temple of heaven, the Great Wall, the National Stadium and other elements are presented one by one… The clothes of the six flag guards of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games flag are made by Chinese local fashion designer Wang FengChen. She is from Fuqing, Fujian Province. After graduating from Beijing Institute of fashion in 2010, she went to the Royal Academy of art to study men’s wear. After graduation in 2015, he began to return to China to start a business and founded the “Feng Chen Wang” brand.
The Winter Olympic flag guard clothes designed by Wang FengChen are 3-piece sets, i.e. an art printed down jacket, a Chinese style suit and a white suit. These costumes were worn by the Olympic flag Keepers – six world-class award-winning athletes Luo Zhihuan, Li Jiajun, Shen Xue, Han Xiaopeng, Zhang Hui and Zhang Hong.
As early as 2015, Wang FengChen, as a cutting-edge designer, began to appear on the T-stage of Shanghai Fashion week. At the Shanghai Fashion Week in spring and summer 2019, converse, a well-known sports brand, and Wang FengChen jointly created a show called “there is a real story”. This show shows converse’s new autumn and winter 2018 and Feng Chen Wang’s spring and summer 2019 clothes. At the 2022 spring summer Shanghai Fashion Week, Wang FengChen released the first women’s clothing series of “Feng Chen Wang”.
Shanghai Fashion Week has a history of 20 years. Over the past 20 years, the brand of Shanghai Fashion Week has developed from 50 shows in the whole year at the beginning to more than 100 shows in today’s quarter, of which original independent designers account for more than 70%. A relevant person from the Organizing Committee of Shanghai Fashion week said that Chen Peng and Wang FengChen, two local designers who have a lot of roots with Shanghai Fashion Week, with their works, could stand out at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, which is not only the glory of Shanghai Fashion Week, but also shows that Shanghai Fashion Week has always regarded the growth of enabling local new design forces as its core competitiveness, This is the right way.
According to the reporter, although the epidemic is still spreading all over the world and the vitality of the global fashion industry is “greatly damaged”, the Shanghai Fashion Week in autumn and winter 2022 will be launched as scheduled in April this year. “This season, considering the release in autumn and winter, we will also make use of the Winter Olympics fever to make topic selection planning in combination with outdoor, ice and snow clothing and other fields. In short, Shanghai Fashion week should take good care to undertake the ‘spillover effect’ of this wave of Beijing Winter Olympics.”
