The latest interview with Mengdi Wu, a post-90s bag designer in New York?

Q&A dialogue Miss Locker bag designer-Mengdi Wu interview?

New York bag designer Mengdi Wu

Q: Thank you Mengdi for taking the time to accept We interview. ?

Answer: Thank you. ?

Q: Mengdi, what are your usual hobbies? ?

Answer: Reading, traveling, hiding in the room watching sports games, like watching interviews with athletes and coaches?

Q: What books do you like to read recently? ?

Answer: Teacher Lu Yao’s "Morning Begins at Noon" and "Ordinary World", and I also liked Guo Jingming’s "May the Wind Cut the Dust". Students who are engaged in creative works can read "Morning Starts at Noon", which is about Lu Yao who wrote about his own mental journey when he was creating "The Ordinary World", including loneliness, including how to collect inspiration. Sometimes creation is like asceticism. Similarly, I saw his preparations and struggles before making a great work, and many of them are similar to those of designers. ?

Q: What sports do you like to watch? ?

Answer: Tennis, swimming, gymnastics?

Q: Favorite athlete? ?

Answer: Serena Williams (Serena Williams), Federer, coach Liu Guoliang, Ye Shiwen, Jiao Liuyang?

Question: Why do you like watching sports games so much? ?

Answer: Because I think watching sports games and seeing the training and sweat behind the athletes motivates me to work harder. ?

Q: Do you prefer to read the story behind it? ?

Answer: Yes, the same goes for watching movies. I like to watch those little documentaries behind the scenes, recording how the director talks to the actors, how the actors memorize lines, communicate, and the camera machine I think it's very inspiring how the song is performed, including the program "I Am a Singer". It will show the work and rehearsals behind the singer's preparation of the song. We ordinary people may have thought that the singer would just go on stage and sing a song. That's fine. In fact, that's not the case. There is a lot of preparation work to be done. In fact, every industry is the same and requires a lot of effort behind the scenes. ?

Q: You seem to like watching military programs? ?

Answer: Yes, I really like watching "The Story of the Cooking Class". I have read the 1, 2, and 3 movies over and over again and never get tired of them. There are also "Soldier Assault" and "Real Man", both of which are very good to watch. , very inspiring. ?

Q: Are there any soldiers at home? ?

Answer: Yes, my grandfather was a soldier and participated in the Anti-Japanese War. ?

Q: Who is your favorite designer? ?

Answer: Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Alexander Wang, Jason Wu?

Q: Many of them are your Parsons alumni, although Are they from different classes?

Answer: Yes, they are from Michael Kors, not Parsons, but they are all very good designers. ?

Q: Do you have a favorite bag designer? ?

Answer: Yes, Aimee Kestenberg also graduated from Parsons. She is a few years ahead of me and is the same professor as me. When we graduated last year, our teacher invited her back to teach We were judges, and she gave me a lot of good advice. And I remember that she was named Forbes 30 under 30 by the American Forbes magazine, which is the TOP30 under 30 years old. I think she is very powerful. ?

Q: I remember she was born in the 1980s? ?

Answer: Yes, a few years higher than me. ?

Question: Are you born in the 1990s?

Answer: Yes, I was born in the 1991s. ?

Q: We know that Alexander Wang and Jason Wu are both Chinese designers, are you the same? ?

Answer: I am not. My nationality is Chinese. ?

Q: When did you come to the United States? ?

Answer: August 24, 2004, when I came to the United States after graduating from elementary school. ?

Q: Did you come to New York from the beginning? ?

Answer: Yes. ?

Q: Were you happy to be admitted to Parsons School of Design in New York? ?

A: Of course, that was my dream school.?

Q: How did you think you would take the Parsons exam? ?

Answer: Because I used to like watching "Project Runway", which is Project Runway, and every time the camera came out on that TV, it was 40th Street, Seventh Avenue, the fashion district, and then there was the close shot: Parsons , Parsons, Parsons, and I was like, I need to go to Parsons, I need to go to Parsons. ?

Q: What was your dream when you were 18? ?

Answer: Get into Parsons.

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Q: You achieved it! ?

Answer: Yes. ?

Q: We know that when you were 19 years old, you became the youngest designer ever to be nominated for the "World Bag Designer Competition" organized by InStyle magazine in the United States: Independent Handbag Designer Award, Global The highest level design competition for bag designers. ?

Answer: Yes, I am very honored. I didn’t think much about it when I entered the competition. I remember I was still a freshman at Parsons and submitted the design from the computer in the dormitory. I didn’t expect to be nominated later. . ?

Q: What is your current goal? ?

Answer: Before the age of 25, I won the Best Handbag in Overall Style and Design in the competition you just talked about. This is the highest level bag design award in this competition. I know that even though I am a designer It’s a bag for girls of several years old, but I think as long as the design is good enough, we can still win this competition. ?

Q: You are now. . ? ?

Answer: I am 24 years old this year, so it will be next year?

Question: Why do you push yourself so hard? ?

Answer: It still requires some pressure. ?

Q: Do you usually stay at home? ?

Answer: Well, I’m still quite a homebody. I’m the kind of person who either never goes out, but when I go out, I travel far away and fly for more than ten hours~?

Question: Pretty extreme?

Answer: Yes! ?

Q: What is the purpose of traveling? ?

Answer: See the lifestyles of people in different places. ?

Q: Favorite city? ?

Answer: San Francisco, Amsterdam. ?

Q: Is there any special reason? ?

Answer: San Francisco is more suitable for living because it is sunny all year round. Amsterdam because two of my favorite painters are from there: Van Gogh and Rembrandt. ?

Q: Who is your idol? ?

Answer: There are many. Sports idols include Jordan and Serena Williams. The business idol has always been Jack Ma, but recently there has been a new idol: Martha Stewart, the first self-made female billionaire in the United States. Her handling and requirements for the details of her products are all It is very worthy of my learning, and she taught herself many things. ?

Q: If you were not designing now, what career would you have? ?

A: A writer?

Q: Why did you choose a writer? ?

Answer: Because writers are also creative types and need to complete their homework independently. I think this is similar to designers in a sense?

Question: When designing, do you prefer to work alone or in a team? ?

Answer: I personally prefer to complete it independently, because others cannot teach me about design inspiration. You can only rely on yourself to slowly explore, read more, listen more, and learn more, but I will also listen to the advice of professionals. For example, the pattern maker in the factory will say that there is something wrong with the design, because there is still a gap between the design draft and the actual production of the bag, so I will also listen. ?

Q: When will the new Miss Locker bag design be available to all of us? ?

Answer: Next year, 2016. ?

Q: OK, we are also looking forward to designer Mengdi Wu’s new Miss Locker bag in 2016. ?

Answer: Thank you.