Yang Beibei grew up in Shangqiu, Henan Province. Her father is a good erhu player. While her sister dreamed of becoming a good erhu
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like her father, Yang was more interested in
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and wanted to be an artist.
Yang studied traditional Chinese painting and oil painting as a child. In 1990, she
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to study fashion design at Donghua University in Shanghai. “At that time, being a fashion
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wasn’t very popular. I chose fashion design
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I loved to paint beautiful clothes,” Yang said.
Yang got a job
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a fashion designer in Shanghai after graduation. In 1999, she went to Paris to study fashion design. This experience helped her develop her own
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as a designer.
In 2008, Yang moved to Benin in West Africa with her husband. She worked with local fashion designers there. She
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started painting classes to introduce Chinese painting skills to the local people. “It was a
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experience to share Chinese culture through fashion design. I enjoyed it,” Yang said. Yang
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to China in 2011 and joined China International Exhibition Agency. It holds exhibitions worldwide. Though(尽管) Yang’s job was a curator(策展人), she didn’t
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designing clothes. After 2011, she began designing clothes for CCTV’s programmes. She also worked with top Chinese fashion designers to
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her works through exhibitions.
In 2020, Yang
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the fashion exhibitions online. “The fashion exhibitions are
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online. They get many likes. They help people around the world
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Chinese culture through Chinese fashion designers and their works,” Yang said.
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