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Hello!

I really like Heaven Gaia. If I designed evening wear or couture, I would totally draw inspiration from them. Ying Xiong is the head designer, and I believe she draws a lot of her inspiration from Chinese art, aesthetics, and music. 

“Founded in August 2013, Heaven Gaia Apparel Design Co., Ltd. is an innovative clothing enterprise that integrates R&D, design, and sales, and is committed to building Chinese design and Chinese clothing research.  Heaven Gaia has a group of elite teams of leading design designers and traditional Chinese handicrafts led by famous Chinese fashion designer Xiong Ying.  Based on traditional Chinese costumes and contemporary art, Heaven Gaia is dedicated to inheriting Chinese wisdom aesthetics and exquisite costumes and always insists on transforming the original spirit into a unique costume aesthetic culture.  Heaven Gaia integrates the natural way into the philosophical wisdom of Taoism, and combines the beauty of life and spiritual wisdom into the exquisite conception of modern design, and realizes the perfect combination of traditional artistic charm and Western-style expression.  Introverted, implicit.“

Her designs are usually lightweight and airy. Even the blacks and darker tones are muted and soft on the eyes. When compared to hanfu, I always see wuxia or xianxia themes in her designs. 

I also like her heavy use of gradients on fabric.

Thanks for the question!

Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film’s score and had a huge influence on the movie’s story and themes, was a gay man who died of AIDS shortly after work on the film was completed. If you watch the film with that in mind, the message of it becomes clear. Gaston demonstrates that bullies are rewarded and beloved by society as long as they possess a certain set of characteristics, while nice people who don’t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them both.

Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He’s not angry, he’s sad. He’s tired. And he almost gives up because he has nothing to live for. But then he sees that Belle has come back for him, and suddenly he does. In the original fairy tale, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night, and the spell is broken when she accepts. In the Disney movie, he waits for her to love him, because he cannot love himself. That’s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you’re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.

TAZ SKYLAR as SANJI,

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