A bold and beautifully balanced vintage skirt from the Liangshan Yi people of Sichuan, China. This piece features the signature color-blocking and layered pleats characteristic of traditional Yi women’s dress, expressing both strength and elegance through cloth.

The top panel in soft indigo blue contrasts with a jet-black midsection, leading to a striking lower half of finely pleated burgundy and teal, finished with solid black hem detailing. Each color carries its own symbolic weight in Yi culture — blue for serenity, black for resilience, red for vitality, and green for growth — layered together in harmonious tension.