“2008北京奥运会幕后不为人知的故事”
专访核心团队成员石岗英子
我与我在纽约的六位设计师为奥运会开幕式服装做了创意,结果被中方全推翻了。我不得不重新与来自上海的李先生重新创意。
Yes! Most of my ideas were rejected.At first,I had a team of six designers in New York and developed the proposal.Then we brought this proposal to Beijing and all our ambitious ideas were rejected.How did we overcome?I re-designed the whole thing in Beijing with Mr.Lee who was a designer from Shanghai.
人们无法相信,我的奥运服饰设计团队只有我和李先生两人。刚开始的五位纽约设计师和四位中方设计师都陆续离开了,而仍然有很多尚未完成的工作。只有李先生和我完成了全部的工作。
People don`t believe me on this,but my team consisted of Mr.Lee and myself,just two of us. I chose five designers in New York and four in China at first,but because of natural selection of some sort,people left.However,there were still many jobs to be done and we needed to re-design many things.Mr.Lee and I were the only ones working on them.
李先生能够从世界的角度来看中国。他当时一定在想,他作为一个中国人,一定要以他的最大努力做好他的工作,因为他知道中国比起一些先进国家还很落后。只有李先生和我是唯一的设计师,围绕着我们的是一大批协助我们工作的工匠们。挺好的,张艺谋作了让李先生和我来做设计部工作的决定。这样,人为的事就没有了。工作就变得简单了。就像他对蔡国强讲的:“蔡国强,你去搞定火药的事,怎么样”
I think so.Lee was able to see China from the outside.He must have thought that he had to do the best job in this project,because he knew China was behind other countries.There were so many craftsmen working for us, but Mr.Lee and I were the only designers.It was good of Yimou who made this decision,because our job became simple that way.It was just like him saying to Cai,”Take care of the gunpowder,will you”
本文出自:2008年《COOL》杂志
1939年出生于日本东京,在东京国立艺术和音乐大学完成学业便开始了职业美术设计师的生涯。她最早从事广告和印刷的美术设计,后来逐渐开始给戏剧和电影设计服装。20世纪80年代,石冈瑛子将工作据点转移到美国纽约,从此开始了在国际舞台的活动。石冈英子女士是两次荣获奥斯卡奖的日本女性服饰设计师。
石冈英子擅长运用对比非常鲜明的颜色,红色、白色、黑色、蓝色都是她钟爱的颜色,这些颜色在开幕式中都得到了很好的体现。石冈瑛子用色大胆,服装的造型设计上也非常前卫和戏剧化,给人留下深刻印象。
2007年,石冈瑛子受聘担任2008年北京奥运会开幕式服装总设计师,这对于石冈英子而言,不仅是对其服装设计生涯中的一次挑战,更是对她设计风格的高度肯定。北京奥运会服装设计的精彩亮相也让这位设计师的作品风格完美地呈现给全世界。