梁明玉:服装设计师的B面

Liang Mingyu:Behind Costume Designer

“左手霓裳,右手丹青。”这是美术评论家林木对梁明玉的评价。梁明玉虽然以“服装设计师”的身份为人熟知,但“画家”其实是她作为设计师的B面。孩童时,她就开始学习绘画,几十年来,她的包里始终都有一个速写本,走到哪里就画到哪里。尽管服装设计占据了她大部分时间,但她从未放下手中的画笔。“服装是一种视觉外延,有着一种外在的华丽,而画画是更深的内心,已经成为一种陪伴。”梁明玉这样总结服装设计与绘画的关系。

"Half a fashioner designerand half a painter."This is howart critic Lin Mu describes LiangMingyu.Though gained a reputationas a"fashion designer",LiangMingyu has an unbeknownidentity-a"painter",which isher B side as a designer.Beganto learn painting since she was achild,she has,for dlcades,kepthold of her sketchbook wherevershe went.Although design takesup most of her time,she neverputs down her paintbrush."Clothing is a kind of visualextension with an externalmagnificence,while paintinggoing much deeper and hasbecome a companion of me."summed up Liang Mingyu whentalking about the relationshipbetween fashion design andpainting.