About Me
I am Wang Qifan, and here is my graduation design work "Pipa Xing".
I am Wang Qieven, from Beijing Institute of Fashion. I am a senior student studying in the Department of Theatre and Costume Design and here is my graduation design "Pipa Xing".
It is an honour to have my work selected and presented. For this graduation project, the inspiration I chose and worked on was a Chinese poem called "Pipa Xing". This poem tells the story of the poet Bai Juyi, who is sending a friend away on a journey, but meets a woman playing the pipa by the river.
INSPIRATION
The Chinese Colour in Traditional Poetry
My love of classical Chinese poetry led me to decide to use The 《Pipa Xing》 as the backdrop for my character design. In Chinese poetry and culture, seemingly brief words and phrases have a reflection of atmosphere, mood and even specific images and colours. The abundance of scenery, atmosphere and subtle psychological descriptions in 《Pipa Xing》 give the poem a rich and tense atmosphere and mood, which provided much inspiration for my design.
I created the design from the psychology and fate of the characters as well as the overall atmosphere. Based on the colours shown in the original poem "Pipa Xing", I extracted and combined colours from paintings and natural landscapes with the same mood, and used them in a more modern way in the design, corresponding the characters with the scenery described in the poem and combining them into a unique moonlit scene at the head of the Xunyang River, in pursuit of the "extraordinary" in the ancient poem.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
DETAIL
Characters past and present
Because of the narrative nature of the poem, I have created two distinct images of the 'lute girl of the past' and the 'lute girl of the present'The design of the 'lute girl of the present' character incorporates a number of natural scenes, and I have reorganised the structure of various forms representing the moon to create the overall silhouette of the costume, which also signifies that the girl’s life is like that of the moon with its shades and roundness, and the headdress is taken from the shape of a slightly closed lotus leaf. In the past, the girl were ethereal and light. I chose to use the 'red silk' that appears in the poem as an entry point, using the traditional Chinese red and naturally dried flowers as inspiration for the design. The six flowers on either side of the headdress are arranged in a sequence from budding to blooming, inspired by the blossom, to signify the fleeting and precious nature of youth.
I love designing, I love theatre costumes and I will continue to use my passion to water the flower of art.
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