YA YI of YAYI CHEN is the winner brand

of the Tenth Edition of Talents Lineapiù

 

Yayi Chen is a fashion designer, creative director, and film-maker. Growing up in Spain, China and USA, YA YI’s artistic inspirations stem from her trilingual and multicultural upbringing that saw her immersed in multiple clashing yet distinct cultures. Her work is embedded in exploring women with multicultural identities and expanding the cross-disciplinary conversation of fashion, performance, film and fine art.
YA YI seeks to explore women’s awakening in the long history. While weaving the voices and emotions of female collectives with multi-cultural backgrounds, she uses her theatrical design language to explore the complexity of the identity of Asian immigrant women in her unique and poetic fabric craftsmanship.
In her work, the female body is often covered  with lace, translucent knitted jacquard, highly decorative fringes and heavy beading, and the veiled body looms within the performer's rhythm. YA YI breaks through the traditional expression of fashion by engaging in cross-disciplinary integration with other art forms including performance, film and book art, connecting the ancient tales with the senses of the new world that creates a resonating space to experience the intersection of fashion design and modern art.

“I’m  beyond honored and grateful to be selected as the winner of the Tenth Edition of Talents Lineapiù, we look forward to keep building fantasies through Lineapiu’s original vision in fantasy yarn with a global and sustainable perspective. In my previous collections, I used Lineapiu’s unique ZETA yarn to develop our brand’s symbolic translucent sheer floral jacquard inspired by Chinese Ink Painting patterns which we named the Oriental Lace, as an exploration paying homage to the laboring body of Chinese immigrant women. My brand intends to focus on telling narratives about women communities behind the veil and their blurred identities, for example immigrant workers, I wish my audience could focus on my work, my voice, but not my image as a designer.”