Luly's Love Stories
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Luly taking her bow at the end of the 20/20 Couture Fashion Show. Next week, she returns to Fremont Studios to present A Monarch’s Tale: The Journey of a Decade, which celebrates her tenth anniversary.
Luly Yang accepting the 2012 Excellence Award at Metropolitan Fashion Week!
this is a pattern that Luly designed shortly after attending Première Vision in Paris, 10 years ago. (Taken with instagram)
illustration by Luly Yang.
Luly contemplating designs for her next collection. #behindthescenes (Taken with instagram)
Luly in green! (Taken with instagram)
Luly greets a guest at her 2010 Tea Show in the @fairmontolympic. #luly (Credit: Team Photogenic)
No dress is perhaps as closely identified with Luly Yang as her famous Butterfly Dress. Before she started her couture business, Luly participated in a paper dress competition for which the goal was to artistically showcase the paper she was given. Luly decided to create a paper dress inspired by a Monarch butterfly! Later she constructed the actual dress using silk taffeta, Swarovski crystals and black ostrich feathers. Luly describes the dress as a metamorphosis that transformed her career path from graphic design to fashion design.
In 2009 Luly designed a collection inspired by the masterpieces of Michelangelo, entitled The Creation. I happened to run across some of the creative text that poetically describes each individual set from the show and I thought the language was beautiful and romantic. Here is part of the text for the set inspired by the Pieta; the statue that stands at the base of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
Imagine the beginning, a concept turned creation.
Beauty and devotion are veiled,
In gentle drapes of lavender hues.
Polished cascades of silken fabric,
Define her femininity.
Luly elegantly poses for the camera after the Ocean Fashion Show. Isn’t her dress fabulous?
Master at work - out take from @KING5Seattle interview. (Taken with Instagram at Luly Yang)
Luly & friends at the Brava! Awards Ceremony.
