Yiqing yin biography of alberta

&#;Returning to my clothes, was like living once more within my body and my emotions; I was at home.&#;

Born in Beijing in , Yiqing Yin immigrates from China at the age of 4 to France then Australia. Living between countries, her clothes have often provided her with a point of reference.

She aims to create a garment that protects and reinforces, being at the same time a second skin and a flexible armor. Examining the dynamic potential of pleats, she imagines never-fixed structures, always-in-mutation volumes.

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She sculpts the emptiness around the body through the pursuit of balance and points of disruption between flowing zones and sculpted zones. Through the modernisation of smock technique and the elimination of any order of construction, she experiments garment “tombé”, seeking for fluid lines.

She models loose shapes with staggering structures and confesses her attraction for an intuitive method of creation, a sensory wandering, and a search for voluntary accidents.

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