Yvan Deng has been the only live artist ever invited to Shanghai Fashion Week to expand on the mere runway reality through live illustrations.

       His work includes backstage, beauty, atmosphere, and runway. Yvan pioneered the first collaboration between fashion Designers and live emotional speed painting at the shows by capturing the ambiance and designs onto paper, in less than twenty minutes. With each of these paintings, Yvan never sketched anything out beforehand, and never returned to alter them in hindsight. Each piece was completed entirely in the moment, on the catwalk. It’s a matter of stylish savoir-faire, one might say.

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       During the years since starting Shanghai Fashion Week, Yvan Deng has been shifting between major shows. While the media, fashionistas, bloggers, stylists, editors, buyers, and celebrities line up to get a FROW spot and catch a glimpse of the next in-vogue trend, Yvan is often found sitting right at the end of all the action. Paper and various painting tools, including mediums ranging from liquid foundation to spray paint, scatter around him. To see a show through Yvan’s eyes makes for a wholly different artistic and fashionable education. In fact, this is one thing people have come to love about what Yvan adds to a fashion event: an entirely new art form, one that offers a point of view from the experience of the show, as seen through the eyes of a creator whose works strut off the beaten path. After all, on the runway, art is in motion. And so is Yvan.