Foning Bao’s collection inspired by her grandparent's wedding picture in 1948, which is the time that China has been influenced by western culture for the most. she took the idea from the surreal western style flower shape of the bouquet and Boutonniere that her grandparents wearing, also with the combination of her grandmother’s eastern style vintage wedding flower fabrics.
During the research, the surreal flower brings her the idea of Japanese’s origami flower (create 3D paper flower only by folding not cutting). From that, you can tell all her knit pieces are deformed from square/rectangle shape, also the flower print idea.
With her knowledge of her fish skin craft ship and knitting, she built her final looks mixed with yarns and fish skin, no fabrics. The knit pieces are all hand knitted, and the fish skin pieces are all hand-linked by crochet. As you can see from her final looks, not only the garments but also the accessories are made from fish skin as well.
