Photo of anina.net, Juanzhi (top female photographer in China), and Liu Yang (Top Designer)
Sometimes in the life you get the chance to meet and talk with great people, like Gorgio Armani, or Karl Lagerfeld, Sonia Rykiel, etc. You shake in your shoes because these people have a legacy. The same is true in Asia, only because of the language barrier, most of the time no one tells you when you are meeting a master until you are there on the fashion show and you see the mastery. The other day however, I had the good luck to talk with one of the people from the casting who began to tell me about the designer we were there to see. I was in awe to learn that Liu Yang was a pillar of Chinese fashion, having been designing since China began to open up. Mr. Liu Yang makes the most beautiful evening dresses and will show this season in the Beijing Fashion Week.
"Only when you devote your life into it, the design has it's own spirit." says Liu Yang. "Weaving the elegance from the East together with the romance of the West is the eternal soul of my design."
When you see him on the casting, he looks so young and fresh you'd never guess that he's been in the industry since the beginning. I joked around with him saying, "what's your secret cream? I want it too!" Mr Liu Yang radiates energy and passion and his dress design makes you dream of being in the movies or at the Oscars. I hope that I will be chosen for his fashion show, because to walk down the runway in one of his dresses--no float down the runway--would be a dream!
