17th SPP Graduation Ceremony

Santoni Shanghai hosts their very own Santoni Pioneer Program — an ideal opportunity for rising designers and industry innovators to test their knowledge, grow their skillset, and create something stemming from their time at Santoni Shanghai. This micro-academy-like program helps its carefully selected participants explore the unique material creation, communication within a team, and more. 

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Currently a senior student at Zhejiang Sci-tech university, and soon to apply for a postgraduate degree in textile design focussing on knitwear and smart textiles. 

"Being an inexperienced student on the field, I wouldn’t call myself a designer. As learning and experiment through the process, I am always inspired by the different textures of textiles, working with technicians and machines, sometimes some unexpected mistake could actually bring out something beautiful. Just hopefully my project would bring something interesting to the table."

"I am always awed by the beautiful muscle line of female tennis player and their powerful grunting. The interior power and that quintessential neon color just inspired me. I want to showcase the power inside that little tight tennis skirt and I developed serious patterns used in bags inspired by the William sisters’ symbolic beads look." 

                                                       -  Liao Jingwen 

In the world of existing cognition and other unknown fields of exploration, human beings are intensively linked to it and completed adaptation. And when human beings use technology to complete the equivalence between life and nature, they will return to the original spiritual realm and examine themselves. Human beings are constantly switching between being dominated and being dominated, seeking a balance between technology, nature, and culture.

Qianwen Yu is a doctoral student from the School of Fashion and Art Design at Donghua University. She enjoys the process of integrating my diverse inspirations into my design to create new products. For her project on the Miao embroidery, She uses Multi-Species Thinking to integrate ethnic elements with modern life and carry forward the spirit of folk culture.  

Miao Embroidery

Ethnic Colors

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Tactile Texture

Sustainability

In this collection, she has taken the pattern and color scheme of the Miao embroidery in Southeast Guizhou as inspiration and used the change of knitting structure to choose yarns with different textures to create products with different knitting textures. The fusion of embroidery yarns and knitting yarns can create endless variations, and the fusion of embroidery techniques with seamless knitting technology creates many possibilities. The use of seamless knitting machines broadens the variety of cultural and creative products and more choices for knitting fabrics. No longer limited to light and soft, fabrics can be with thickness, padding, and pleats, and can give a tactile texture. 

In the design, the human bodies, reflecting on the cascading mountains and rivers, are supporting and snuggling with each other, as if they have nothing to depend on but rely on each other. The mountains support the backbone of human beings, and the ripples hold up the ripples of the heart, presenting a harmonious image of human beings and nature, hoping to lead people to withdraw from the shackles of the epidemic and to appreciate the wildness of nature and the warmth of the crowd.

The word “witch” originally meant “wise woman” Because this series is thinking about bringing women more convenience and comfort in life, work, and fitness.