Huaxia Jingwei.com, August 18: According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network", the Kaohsiung City Hakka Affairs Committee in Taiwan has held the Hakka wedding event for nine consecutive years. This year, it will adopt a competition method to hold the "2021 Hakka Wedding~Hakka Blue" "Shirt and Dress Design Competition", the works "Butterfly" and "Dye Banquet" by students from Shudeke Fashion Design Department won the winning prize in the women's clothing group finals, each receiving a prize of NT$20,000 (NTD).
The Hakka wedding held by the Kaohsiung Guest Committee is one of the 12 major Hakka festivals. The winning works are expected to be awarded at the Hakka wedding on November 20, and the newlyweds will be allowed to wear beautiful and Hakka-style dresses.
Tse Kwun-yu and Leung Ka-wai, students of the Pandemic Design Department of Shudeke, won the winning award for their work "Dye Banquet". (Photo by Lin Ruiyi)
This competition invites young students and professional designers from Taiwan to participate. The works must use blue shirts as creative elements, combined with modern wedding dresses, to show creativity and design. A total of 88 design drawings participated in the preliminary competition, and were selected to advance to the final, and the dress production was completed.
The finals have been held on August 16 at Yudou Shuzhan Trail in the Hakka Gardens. Men's and women's wear, each with 5 sets of blue shirts, were released in a dynamic catwalk. A jury composed of industry and academia judged on-site and selected men's and women's wear. Two winning works from each group.
The work "Butterfly" by Lin Fangyu, a student of the Department of Popular Design at Shudeke, is inspired by the fluttering butterfly. It uses the butterfly's beautiful appearance and the meaning of hard work, combined with Hakka blue shirt to design a dress with innovative elements.
Blue dyeing and Hakka tung flower season are one of the indispensable elements of Hakka culture. "Dyeing Banquet" by Shuke University students Xie Guanyu and Liang Jiawei takes the Hakka tung flower season as the creative concept. They create tung flower patterns on blue-dyed, tie-dyed, and gradient-dyed fabrics, and add them to European three-dimensional tassels. The floral fabric is embroidered with tung flowers.
For the winning prize of the Women's Wear Award, Lin Fangyu and other three winners thanked teachers Mao Peihua, Zheng Qiuyue, and Zhang Yingling from the University of Shuke University for their assistance in dyeing blue fabrics for the competition. They took advantage of the summer vacation period during the slight relaxation of the epidemic to take advantage of the competition deadline. Urgent man-to-man method guides Aizen to learn for one week, personally dyes suitable and beautiful indigo fabrics, and makes the most beautiful dresses in my mind. (Gao Yang)
