China gets intimate

The cast designer for Aimer Lingerie, Xu Yanzhen, has chosen the latest environmental friendly material —- a renewable fiber fabric to make the lace of the lingerie much more unique.  I don’t really understand why her collection theme was called “Discovery”, but it expressed a uniquely natural and delicate design element.

This was during China’s fashion week S/S 2009.

Off-shore production (mainly in China) is not the most glamourous aspect of the fashion industry.  However, I was surprised to find that the production of lace in China goes back further than I had expected despite its western origins.

Xiaoshan, “China’s lace capital”, has had more than 80 years of production history. The Xiaoshan lace, introduced by the Shanghai business (Paris of the East), was opened in 1919 and became the first lace factory.