I met Rain Sun in 2010 when a friend introduced her as this excellent seamstress who would do a perfect fitting of any kind of outfit you could wish to have. And indeed, Rain made me a beautiful evening gown that made me feel like a princess! Her already high quality service and a profound connoisseur of “haute couture” gave Rain the opportunity to work for many expat families and Chinese clients. Bringing their creations into reality and seeing that big smile of approval on her clients faces is what she strives for.
Rain studied Fashion Design at the Institute of Art and Fashion of Tianjin Polytechnic University. Her first jobs were not exactly in clothing design. She first worked as a translator in Motorola, and afterwards as a fashion journalist for a local newspaper called Fashion Times. This gave Rain the necessary experience to understand the world of fashion without moving away from her dreams of making clothes. From a very young age Rain made lots of dresses for her dolls, she is even amazed to see how many different dresses she made! She certainly feels blessed to have been able to fulfill her dreams of becoming a real designer and do what she has always loved.
Rain continued to be involved in the world of fashion and was very lucky to have worked for a highly well known fashion brand: Ports. This was the pinnacle of her learning period: seeing up close the whole trajectory of cloth making from choosing buttons, threads, to creating the design, up to the final product. Not only did she see this, but she also attended major international Fashion Shows at Paris and Milan.
Every designers dream: the runway show
“To represent yourself and your work on the stage is one of the biggest moment for any designer’s dream,” Rain said. “It’s many months, countless hours of preparation working on a new collection. My presentation at the Beijing Fashion Week in 2019 was at most 40 minutes on the runway, but it was worth all the work put into it” she says with a big smile.
Her collection theme for the fashion show was based on the environment. Rain felt inspired to create styles that would show the impact of our blind attitude towards it by designing dresses with mono-chromatic colors paired with eye masks. She also culminated her runway show with a brightly colorful display of gowns representing a vision of hope for a future with a clean, healthy planet. Whenever Rain flew into Tianjin she rarely saw clear skies. Most of the time the city was blanketed with a layer of smog. This has stayed in her mind, and since then, Rain tries to do her part in protecting our home for the sake of future generations. On a brighter side, Rain Sun Design Show won the 2019 Best Design Award.
Her future projects
Rain has many plans for the future. One that she feels very keen to do is sharing her experiences and accomplishments with high school students who may have aspirations for clothing design. She knows that there are so many talented children out there with great potential that with a little guidance and inspiration can lead them to fulfill their dreams. As a member of the Beijing Fashion Designer’s Association, Rain hopes to continue working to make possible ways of introducing new talents from all of over China. Once the world heals from the pandemic, Rain would love to bring her ideas and inspirations to other countries to show the true lives and culture of China. In the meantime, Rain continues to make clothes for her clients who are at first hand the motivational wheel to continue in this career. As she puts it enthusiastically, “my greatest satisfaction is seeing my clients face transform into a big smile once they dress with my designs. To me that’s my ultimate goal and what brings me happiness to enjoy what I do for a living”
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