Designer Yue Xiaolin: Designing Clothing With Subtraction

Q: how many years have you been doing makeup? What is the most difficult job in makeup?

Yue Xiaolin: it's been 18 years. I think the hardest part is to understand the requirements of every customer and transform it into the simplest, direct and effective way of presentation. It is not only difficult to say whether it is complex, simple or effective, but directly showing the kind of style that customers want.

Q: what is the concept of makeup that you have been insisting on for 18 years?

Yue Xiaolin: my idea is to add and subtract the medium and multipurpose subtraction by adding and subtracting. When communicating with guests, I will also use addition and subtraction, with the least and direct, but can set out my overall requirements, such as clothing or other products. Because after all, we need to dress up to serve the brand or people. Sometimes we use additions, but we use less. I think the addition to a certain degree, eventually is also normalized, is also a subtraction.

Q: how do you view the standard of makeup and makeup in the entire Chinese fashion industry?

Yue Xiaolin: I think the make-up standard of China has started to go up in the whole world. Many people think we are very backward, but I don't think so. Many of us are not very confident, and are still studying in Japan and Korea. But I think we have far exceeded them. We can now emulate the more developed fashion stylists in Europe and America, and we will not lose them.

Q: how do you adapt and adjust in the large and continuous working week of fashion week?

Yue Xiaolin: first understand the needs of customers, then we will make plans to give customers experience. When the customer understands, he will give me a direction, and I will arrange the work team to deploy. Because I am not fighting alone. We will not do a lot of work because I want to make sure that the clients I serve are of quality.

Q: what impressed you most among your co operative customers?

Yue Xiaolin: what impressed me most was Mr. Hu Sheguang.

Q: because his works are more personal?

Yue Xiaolin: not only because he has the influence in Chinese fashion, but what is most important is his recognition of us. This mutual recognition and mutual appreciation is the catalyst for our cooperation and enables us to achieve better ideas. This is the most gratifying feeling in our work, far more than money.

Q: sometimes you have to think a lot of creativity, will there be "broken pieces" feeling?

Yue Xiaolin: also, creativity won't happen every day. I often say that if a person has such a good idea every day and original, I think the mental state of this person is so impractical and free from worldly affairs. After all, we are still in the secular cities, and we are faced with many practical problems. So we are bound to have a time of detachment, collapse and no thought. At this point, we will calm ourselves down and then look for inspiration. Just like when I look for creativity in my show, do not deliberately invest in finding inspiration.

Q: you have been in this industry for 18 years, and you are doing a job of creating beauty. What do you think of beauty?

Yue Xiaolin: in my mind, the beauty that I appreciate is many, many layers. It has the simple and pure beauty, and also the beauty of personality, even rebellion, violence and death, all of which show the feeling of beauty. It's just that everyone's feelings are different when they look at it. Then we know the beauty of death, including the beauty of struggle, the beauty of violence, and the beauty of destruction. It's just that beauty brings negative things. So, no matter what, we want to transform this beauty into a positive force.

Question: if makeup can only highlight one of the female facial features, which part do you think it will be?
Yue Xiaolin: because people are different, it is her merits that stand out. If she smiles beautifully, that smile is her best makeup. Some may think this is a bit off professional, but it doesn't matter.