From Ink to Apparel IV

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2019 marks the fourth year of Apparel exhibition series. Like its predecessor Apparel III, Apparel IV is put up by two curators. This year, the exhibition invites 7 designers to participate in this event. Curator Tong Yang-tze chooses the four seasons as this year’s theme, where she picks out four sets of phrases that highlight the spirit of each season: Di-cui (spring), He-jing (summer), You-hue (autumn), and Han-song (winter). As the strokes reflect the state of mind of the writer and bring out the meaning of the characters, each season is presented through each phrase in its unique way. Forms of the characters as well as colors that the four phrases reveal serve as a great inspiration for fashion design, provoking people’s aesthetic perceptions. This film captures how the curators and designers translate Tong’s calligraphy work into their sense of fashion, and attempts to respond to this collective cultural action of crossover with exceptional and smooth-flowing camera language.  

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From Ink to Apparel will be composed of five episodes – the crew will follow TONG Yang-Tze closely and document the inspiring collaboration between her and fashion designers. As TONG says, “Calligraphy is much more than tradition, it is a form of art that keeps up with the times.”