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China Cup school visit · Shanghai North America International School

Designing the Beauty of China

How a student work rooted in late-Qing dress, kingfisher-feather craft and phoenix imagery developed through research, cross-disciplinary thinking and a professional stage.

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Video: published Shanghai North America school-visit edition. Text based on the school-visit interviews, published competition work and inaugural-edition materials.

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Beginning with cultural imagery

Wang Tengyi's fashion work begins with late-Qing dress, kingfisher-feather craft and phoenix imagery, reframing tradition, power and character through a contemporary silhouette. Cultural references become a design language to research, analyse and reinterpret rather than surface decoration.

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Research, materials and revision

The school's art curriculum connects thematic research, material exploration, reflection and presentation. A work is not completed in one pass: students move repeatedly between sketches, renderings, form and materials, refining their decisions through exhibition, dialogue and feedback.

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Where art and business question each other

Here, artistic observation meets analytical thinking from business studies. Understanding people, culture and visual expression sits alongside questions of how a work is seen, communicated and placed in a real context.

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