For the first time in a hundred years, Women's Wear Daily in the United States took a jewelry work as the front page headline, which was her work. Her works were rated as the most representative jewelry works of art in 2 1 century, and were permanently collected by the Smithsonian National History Museum, which is second only to the White House. This is Cindy Chao in Cindy Chao.
Sacred skill
Behind the legend of "overnight fame" is unparalleled persistence and tenacity. Influenced by the grandfather of the architect and the father of the sculptor, CindyChao is fascinated by the three-dimensional structure of jewelry. She believes that "every piece of jewelry should be like a miniature building".
Every level, structure, radian and turning point must be carefully planned and calculated, not only the arrangement of diamond inlays and the presentation of fire colors, but also the ergonomic and mechanical support structure. These have gone beyond the traditional gem inlay and involved in the field of engineering structures.
She will analyze the structure of each work, study how to split and reorganize it, and make a subtle organ to make all parts seamlessly connect. Sometimes a work will even be done over and over again for more than a dozen times because of the treatment of an organ.
When each of her works is finished, she must look at herself and find out what she can do better. Even if the work is perfect in the eyes of her clients, she will have to do it again several times. The highest record is 20 times, and that work took six years and has not been completed yet.
In the past, the jewelry industry has always been dominated by whites, but now in the international arena, CindyChao brand not only represents the strictly selected gems, but also represents the precision technology with zero error.
In 2007, cindychao brand officially entered bergdorfgoodman, a seven-star fashion shopping mall in the United States. The mall executives said: "cindychao's energetic design and creation, rare gems from YEATION, 360-degree three-dimensional carving and inlaying are unparalleled in the world."
In 2009, DeBeers, the world's largest diamond company, invited CindyChao to design a global publishing series for its FOREVERMARK permanent stain brand. The "Magnificent Fan" designed by her, which focuses on the Four Seasons Spring, shines brightly, with 2,399 beautiful diamonds with a total weight of 3 10.27 carats, 360-degree stacking and diamond setting technology, and the winding is absolutely graceful in the East.
But little known is that during the birth of this work, she didn't leave the studio for six weeks and only slept for three hours every day.
Miss Butterfly
Cindy loves butterflies and her short and wonderful life. "The human body will disappear with time, but art can last forever. So we use our works to prove that we once existed. "
Since 2008, CindyChao has made an annual butterfly brooch every year to witness her growth and transformation this year. Each job needs more than 65,438+08 months and nearly10,000 man-hours.
Every year, butterflies with different postures condense the dexterity, thinness and strength contained in nature. Butterflies with different postures witnessed her transformation at different stages.
In March 2009, her "Royal Butterfly Brooch" was permanently collected by the Smithsonian National History Museum. More than10.40 billion pieces of art antiques and specimens are preserved here, and the world-famous works such as Diamond Hope and Napoleon's Crown are collected. In the eyes of Americans, its position is almost second only to the White House.
This honor has established Cindychao's jewelry position on the international stage in one fell swoop, and also turned her from a jewelry designer into a master of art jewelry.
She asked the director of the Smithsonian Museum, "Why?" The curator said, "Because I want to keep the most representative jewelry works of art in 2 1 century for future people."
A master with extremely low output
She loves nature, and many works are inspired by natural elements. In her hands, gems are pigments, jewels are sculptures, and a stone that was born cold was made into an emotional work of art by her skillful hands. And art cannot be mass-produced.
CINDYCHAO has two product lines, BlackLabel and WhiteLabel. The creative cycle of each work in the master series of BlackLabel is 1-2 years, and the details from wax carving to diamond matching to hollowing out are completed by Cindy herself. Equipped with its own customized box, it adopts the paint of the top piano made in Germany. The box is inlaid with K-gold pieces for recording years, numbers and short stories.
The plan she gave herself was to create 36 pieces at most every year, but she never reached this figure. Even sometimes only single-digit works are published every year. However, even if each work takes two to three years to order, countless celebrities are still crazy about CindyChao.
Art belongs to art and reality belongs to reality.
Excellent design and exquisite craftsmanship are the core of CindyChao's brand development, but it can become a top designer brand in just over ten years, thanks to her sisters KateChao and Zhao Xinrou. Kate, who is familiar with marketing and interpersonal relationships, has played the role of a hero behind the scenes from the beginning, shouldering the work of brand building including building an art gallery, organizing a thank-you meeting and adjusting channels.
CindyChao agrees with this. She mentioned in the interview: "To grow a brand, we must have a professional team to manage and market it. A good creator must be isolated from the market. If the creator makes a market, the creation will be influenced by the market, and what he creates is only a commodity, which cannot be called a work of art. "
From a little girl who designed for her mother's friend to a master of art jewelry who now occupies a place in the international jewelry industry, CindyChao, like her favorite butterfly, endured the loneliness in the cocoon and the pressure of breaking out of it, and finally turned it into a suffocating glory.