Today we’d like to introduce you to Luran Hou.
Hi Luran, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I’m a costume design artist. I have been exposed to art since I was three years old. To know my interests, I have learned a lot of different types of art. I have danced for eight years, played guzheng for more than ten years, played the piano, learned ping-pong, and painted from age five. Impatient, I tried almost every art form I knew. This also for my late comprehensive art have a strong interest in doing the groundwork. Fashion design has always been my career ideal. I used it all the time from the beginning of the first dress effect drawing. From Junior High to college, I drew almost 500 designs. Although these designs are childish now, they carry the best memories of my entire youth. After puberty, I started playing truant, running away from home and lying. My parents and I got into a tense relationship for a long time. By then, I was a troubled teenager in the eyes of my teachers and parents, but as a romance novel, I still had the most innocent fantasies about the world. I have always believed that human emotion and complexity are the most beautiful products of God’s creation. Against my parents’ wishes, I didn’t get into the major of fashion design at university. I spent all my savings and began to prepare to go abroad. I tried to communicate with my parents about studying abroad, but we had endless arguments because of family tradition. Exhausted, I finally gave up communication and began preparing to go overseas secretly. My English is very poor. It took me four years to finish my dream of studying for a fashion design degree abroad. Years of chasing costume design and artistic pursuits have become a bone in my body. Without it, I could still live, but I wouldn’t be complete.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
I’ve been on a lucky but bumpy road. I always think of myself as a fortunate person because as I grew up, I always met many people who helped me through difficult times, including friends, teachers, and family. However, what changed my artistic pursuit was for me. In late 2018, I started to lose weight for a project I was working on. In six months, I’ve lost 90 pounds. Unfortunately, after losing weight, I developed a severe case of bulimia. At that time, I could eat 30 loaves of bread an hour. To compensate for my guilt, I take more than 30 laxatives daily and run more than 30 miles daily. At the worst, I would run to the trash can for food. I ended up with moderate depression and mild bipolar disorder. Then I experienced the darkest six months of my life. I have no energy to get up, work or go about my daily life. Even I dare not undress and turn off the light to sleep. Fortunately, I am a very scientific person. I began working hard to find treatment, including travel, medicine, and creativity. Every artistic creation became part of my creative healing. And through that time, I began to fear all dark things. I began to create various complex and complicated works with high saturation. I hope that in my short life, I can feel the many beautiful things in life and help me to get back to the pure state of emotional expectations. Through these things, I gradually found my main artistic direction to spread happiness.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
My primary research is to use integrated materials to create clothing artworks. I like to try all the new fabrics I see in my life and use them in my work. In my work, I try to blur the boundaries between different kinds of art and between life and art, such as the combination of illustration and clothing, sculpture and clothing, music and clothing, and even the combination of technology and photography. As for the life aspect, I am best at observing the people around me, observing each kind of different life. I will develop the exciting points of people into other abstract concepts, thus developing into clothing works. I have a never-ending creative brain. I have a lot of deep thinking and unique views on art because of the inspiration of fragmentation. I am also a happy designer with color magic. Color collocation is the most enjoyable part of my artistic creation.
What do you like and dislike about the city?
I’m taking fashion design at SCAD. I am now working as a design assistant at KMM & Co. I also started Spring Street Story as the first accessory studio in preparation for my future branding.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.luluhou-springstreetstudio.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lulu_hou_/
- Other: https://www.instagram.com/springstreetstory/
Image Credits
Photoshoots by myself
