✨ She is Feng Fanrong, an intangible cultural heritage inheritor who is unique in the Shanghai-style cheongsam art. She has various identities: senior arts and crafts artist, senior crafts designer, intangible cultural heritage inheritor of single seamless cheongsam, and founder of Huafuhui. She is committed to the revival of traditional handicrafts and the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage skills, combining Chinese clothing craftsmanship with cross-border skills to create many exquisite works.
🌹 Cheongsam, a treasure deeply rooted in Chinese traditional culture, has a new vitality in Feng Fanrong’s hands. The cheongsam dream in her heart is not only inheritance, but also innovation and breakthrough. With the heart of a craftsman, she perfectly integrates Chinese traditional woven and embroidered fabrics, embroidery techniques, silk, jewelry and other elements into a piece of clothing.
📜 Influenced by Zhang Ailing, a female writer in the Republic of China, Feng Fanrong was determined to combine China’s traditional craftsmanship with modern design to create a unique cheongsam when she was a child. Although her university major had nothing to do with clothing, she was still attracted by this dream and resolutely embarked on the road of pursuing her ideal cheongsam.
🌈Feng Fanrong summarized her cross-border into four aspects: fashion aesthetics, classical heritage, intangible cultural heritage weaving and embroidery, and embroidery craftsmanship. She took the essence of different regions, combined national crafts such as Chaozhou embroidery, Su embroidery, Yi embroidery, and bead embroidery with Shanghai-style improved craftsmanship, and at the same time absorbed the techniques of overseas exotic characteristics to inject new vitality into cheongsam.
💎 Each of her works reflects her ultimate pursuit of craftsmanship and her persistence in beauty. She integrated jewelry, embroidery, and weaving embroidery, successfully realizing “embroidery in embroidery”, presenting the effect of “painting in painting” and “embroidery in embroidery”. She combined the beauty of domestic and foreign craftsmanship to show the perfect combination of fashion and classics.
