Wearing a dress she made of eight giant plastic inflatable roses over a wire structure and a headpiece crowned by a globe, Chinese performance artist Kong Ning is using fashion to draw attention to environmental protection.
“Roses represent love,” she said on Wednesday, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
“I think I have responsibility to let everyone know about the love that I express, so that more people can love and care about the earth, care about our home.”
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Kong, 63, has been an advocate for environmental protection for two decades, designing big and bold dresses that make a statement.
Earlier this year, she created a two-dress project called “Big mask of the blue skies”, which included a white wedding dress adorned with blue surgical masks, to show hope in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak, which began in China.
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