Biographical information:
Born in 1999 Syu Icchi (Syuicchi) began in grade school making doll clothes and knew her art form of choice was born. She prefers the pen name Prince Syu.
Her grade school years were spent accessorizing doll’s clothes, her friends and her own clothes in Lolita and German gothic styling. Too young to remember England’s Edwardian look from the 70’s this dollish silhouette has evolved into today’s Lolita style. Victorian lace, ruffled socks, dresses, parasols and hats favor a dark palette in Gothic trueness. Finely corseted layers can adorn full dresses, full hair and parasols. Corseted layers hint at bondage to bygone eras traditions and also the youth’s fascination with richly adorned fabrics missing from today’s clothing. Unique personalities, and individuals outside the norm are the kind of person wearing these fashions.
Attending ARC for a degree in Fashion Design for the last 2 years, she is new to patternmaking. From her head crazed with rainbows, fashion designer Syuichi’s pulls out her designs for 2013 like the proverbial pot of gold. (Yes, she rocks only one name.) “We all want to be beautiful outside but it is the monster inside that I seek to represent,” says Syuichi. The high-end ready to wear line called “Monster Inside” reveals the dark heart of trending Japanese and Lolita themed fashions.
She has had previous fashion show experience in anime fashion dolls. Now at 23 her young talent evolved from doll’s clothes, and anime characters garbed in German street styling. Her range of fashion design abilities may soon include techniques learned from draping dress forms learned this semester. She began sewing classes in 2007. Though the journey has gotten stressful from time to time she likes to relax watching TV and then jumps back to work once her mind is clear.
A babe in the woods looking for the wolf compares the young Syuichi ‘s character to her interest in darker fashions. Sourcing these dark inspirations from both German and Japanese culture strikes a WWII chord with the older generation viewers. Is she dredging up something better remaining buried or candy coating it from her youthful disconnect to it? Does she invent a fashion style through which she can understand it? Her look is made for the young on the verge of making their presence in the world known.
Influences include Chanel and the late designer Alex McQueen for his stand on female rights. Lady Gaga for her genuineness and the Japanese designer H. Niota for his frilly punk look as he pretties up the gritty parts of the world.
Not yet graduated from college her pursuits may take her to intern and work next year enroll at Parsons, Otis or even to Project Runway! Embracing an aesthetic ushered in by heavy metal music, and gothic mini-me dolls what will she do? It is a beginning that has only just begun. Maybe she will make her brand of dress-up into a therapist’s tool or will she create celestially colored lacy dresses that ladies can’t live without. (from interviewers notes of Ana and Deborah)
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