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Hua Muye, a woman from Shanghai, spent her days off work and on weekends creating fashionable clothes from eggshells, takeout bags and waste cardboard boxes, and her work became popular online. He acknowledged that his compositions stemmed from his longing for his late sister and grandmother, and he also hoped to preserve traces of their loved ones.
Post-90s office workers “Hua Muye” in Shanghai use household scraps such as egg shells, takeout bags and waste paper boxes to sew fashionable clothes such as White Crane Spreading Wings Fashion and Lion King Dress during work hours and weekends. This action of turning trash into treasure has attracted millions of netizens on the Internet to like it. Hua Muye said this all stems from the deep memory of her deceased sister and her grandmother, who passed away more than ten years ago. Her goal is to hand-make 1,001 dresses in the future.
City Express Orange Persimmon Interactive reported that Hua Makino, who majored in English translation in college and had no art base, said that the action stemmed from a heavy childhood memory.
He and his younger sister were abandoned children since childhood. His younger sister could not stand due to rickets. Her grandmother used to collect egg shells, wash them and grind them into powder to get calcium. However, her younger sister had died more than 20 years earlier. More than ten years ago, her grandmother collapsed and passed away alone at home. Two or three days later, her family threw away all her belongings, leaving her extremely afraid that all traces of her loved ones would be forgotten in the world.
To this end, he transformed grief into inspiration. After months of help from her coworkers and neighbors, she even saved two months’ worth of egg shells. Ultimately, she spent three weekends gluing thousands of pieces of eggshell onto gauze scarves to create a lifelike “eggshell crane skirt.” She also used more than 40 takeout bags sent by her coworkers from Metro and spent an entire weekend knitting a fashionable outfit.
In addition, Hua Muye took inspiration from reading the memoir “Flying West at Night” with African elements, used waste cardboard boxes to make the “Lion King” cardboard costume, and once participated in an Asian pet exhibition with a modified set of 1,000 cat photos.
Facing heated discussion among netizens about whether to submit a resume to Balenciaga, Hua Makino responded: “Although the little girl in the story died, I am still alive and I want to create something beautiful for her.”
Knitted skirt modified from a takeout bag. (Taken from City Express Orange Persimmon Interactive)
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She said she was inspired by childhood trauma. His sister died young and several years later his grandmother also died. She was especially afraid that the traces of her loved ones would be forgotten, so she channeled her grief into creation.
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She reuses everyday discarded materials like egg shells, takeout bags, and waste paper boxes to create crane skirts, dresses, cardboard dresses, and even suits inspired by cat photos.
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This work received millions of likes from netizens, and some people asked whether she should submit her resume to Balancingia; She replied that she wanted to create beauty for her dead sister and continue her sense of existence.
