Professional models clad in designer shou yi (funerary clothes) for corpses — were on Sunday featured in a fashion show staged in a Kaohsiung cemetery.
The show, a collaboration between the Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising at the Kaohsiung Campus of Shih Chien University and a funeral home business, was held in front of the columbarium tower at the Green Cemetery (吉園) on Kaohsiung’s Dagangshan (大崗山).
Taiwanese traditionally buried their dead in funerary clothes — either mandarin jackets or western suits for men and cheongsams for women. However, in modern times, cremation and interment in a columbarium have became more prevalent, but the use of funerary clothing in cremations continues to be practiced nationwide.
Photo: Su Fu-nan, Taipei Times
Sunday’s catwalk show featured 24 outfits designed by fashion students and a panel selected the three best designs and awarded them prizes.
The show was intended to “encourage the younger generation to contribute new ideas so as to bring fashion to mortuary services that is utilitarian, environmentally friendly and innovative,” the organizers of the event said.
The first prize was won by Tsai Li-an’s (蔡禮安) white funerary clothes set, Reincarnation. Yu Chiung-wen’s (游瓊雯) Living and Resting, and Chen Yen-fang’s (陳彥方) Golden Longevity — a pair of matching man and woman’s funerary outfits, won the second and third prizes respectively.
“The fashion designers’ submissions for this show are very environmentally friendly, and the city government would gladly recommend them to Kaohsiung’s funeral homes,” Kaohsiung Mortuary Services Office section chief Hu Yen-peng (胡燕鵬). “About 90 percent of Kaohsiung’s funerals involve cremations, and reducing pollution from the city’s crematoriums is of great interest to my office.”
Green Cemetery special assistant Yang Hsiu-han (楊修翰) said that his company might negotiate with the prize-winning designers from Sunday’s fashion show with an eye to licensing the production of their designs and incorporating them into the cemetery’s shou yi catalogue for its clients.
Green Cemetery aims to provide “the most modern facility” for the diseased, but also to “preserve the soil, forest and grassland of the natural environment and help to maintain the circle of life,”its corporate statement said.
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