Useless - WUYONG

Canton on a close, stifling day. Amid the tremendous noise of the sewing machines, the female workers in a textile factory seem incredibly calm under the fluorescent neon lights. The clothes that will soon leave the factory are to be dispatched to unknown customers. Paris in winter. The designer Ma Ke has come to present her brand new label "Wu Yong" at the 2007 Autumn/Winter Fashion Week. She buries her creations in the ground so that nature and time might leave their mark on them. Fenyang, Shanxi Province. In a little shop, a woman is sewing, holding a plastic bag full of mended clothes on her lap to keep herself warm.

"By showing the factories in Ghanzhou, the fashion show in Paris and the tailor's shop in Shanxi Province in the same film, I wanted to create a composite image reflecting the situation." Jia Zhang-Ke