高一上学期确定专业，开始学习艺术相关课程。两年后，他拿到了服装设计领域的最高学府之一、被誉为“时装界的哈佛”——法国高级时装艺术学院（ESMOD）的录取。

It was only in the first semester of 10th grade that he decided on his major and began studying art-related courses. Two years later, he received an admission offer from École Supérieure des Arts et Techniques de la Mode (ESMOD), one of the most prestigious institutions in fashion design, renowned as the "Harvard of Fashion."

这简直是奇迹！

This seems nothing short of a miracle!

他是Jimmy，天行双语特色班2026届毕业生，也是天行首位获得ESMOD录取的学生。

He is Jimmy, a graduate of the Teensen Bilingual Special Program Class of 2026, and the first Teensen student to receive an offer from ESMOD.

在禾濡艺术部负责人coco老师眼里，Jimmy有明确的目标，能捕捉他人忽略的情绪细节，更敢于将“不能凑在一起的颜色”大胆碰撞，创作出天马行空的作品。

In the eyes of Coco, head of the Heru Art Department, Jimmy is a student with clear goals. He can capture emotional details that others overlook and dares to boldly combine colors that "shouldn't go together," creating imaginative and unconventional works.

跟Jimmy聊完，你会发现，每一个看似偶然的“奇迹”背后，都藏着无数个必然，又怎是一个简单的“奇迹”可以概括？

After talking with Jimmy, you'll discover that behind every seemingly accidental "miracle" lie countless inevitabilities. How could it be summed up by a simple word like "miracle"?

01.

从“入不了脑”的商科到“非它不可”的艺术

From "Incomprehensible" Business to "Must-Have" Art

和许多家庭一样，Jimmy的父母最初为他规划的是一条更稳妥的路——商科。

Like many families, Jimmy's parents initially planned a more stable path for him—business.

然而，面对枯燥的数学公式和物理定律，Jimmy感到深深的无力：“根本入不了脑，坐在那儿就是浪费时间。”

However, faced with tedious mathematical formulas and physical laws, Jimmy felt profoundly helpless: "I just couldn't get it into my head. Sitting there was a complete waste of time."

转折发生在一个平常的下午。Coco老师来班上做了一场艺术分享课。Jimmy听着听着，原本游离的眼神逐渐聚焦，心里觉得“挺有意思”。

The turning point came on an ordinary afternoon. Teacher Coco came to the class to give an art sharing session. As Jimmy listened, his previously wandering gaze gradually focused, and he thought to himself, "This is pretty interesting."

课后，他主动报名参加了艺术兴趣班，一试之下发现：“好像……还挺好玩的。”那一刻，他明确了自己想学服装设计的方向。

After class, he took the initiative to sign up for the art interest club. Once he tried it, he discovered: "It seems... actually quite fun." At that moment, his direction became clear: he wanted to study fashion design.

Jimmy与艺术的缘分，似乎很早就埋下了伏笔。

The seeds of Jimmy's connection with art seemed to have been planted long ago.

小学四年级时，妈妈爱逛街，每次试衣服，Jimmy就坐在旁边等着。等久了无聊，他便伸手去摸那些挂着的衣服——这件是软的，那件是硬的，这件滑滑的，那件糙糙的。

In the fourth grade, his mother loved shopping. Every time she tried on clothes, young Jimmy would sit and wait nearby. Getting bored from waiting, he would reach out to touch the hanging garments—this one is soft, that one is stiff, this one is smooth, that one is rough.

小时候的Jimmy和妈妈

他对材质的敏感，就在这一一次次等待和触摸中悄悄萌芽。

His sensitivity to materials quietly sprouted during those moments of waiting and touching.

五年级那年，全家去法国旅游，卢浮宫的展品、博物馆的名画他统统不感兴趣，全程低头玩手机。但巴黎街头的氛围、橱窗里的设计、街上行人的穿搭，却像种子一样落进了心里。

In the fifth grade, his family traveled to France. He wasn't interested in the exhibits at the Louvre or the famous paintings in museums, spending the whole time looking down at his phone. But the atmosphere of the Parisian streets, the designs in the shop windows, and the outfits of passersby fell into his heart like seeds.

因为当时太小，只顾着玩手机而错过了认真看风景的机会，这成了他小小的遗憾。爸爸后来对他说：“那你干脆以后考过去读书，弥补这个遗憾。”

Because he was too young and focused on his phone, he missed the chance to truly appreciate the scenery—this became a small regret.His father later told him, "Then why not just apply to study there later and make up for this regret?"

这句话，在当时只是随口一说，却在高一下学期被重新唤醒。

At the time, these were just casual words, but they were reawakened in the second semester of 10th grade.

当Jimmy跟妈妈说想学艺术时，妈妈有些惊讶，但最终选择了尊重：“不管做什么都得自己喜欢，只有自己喜欢，才会用心专心地去学。”

When Jimmy told his mother he wanted to study art, she was a bit surprised but ultimately chose to respect his decision: "No matter what you do, you have to like it. Only if you like it will you put your heart and focus into learning it."

而真正让妈妈放心的，是她看到儿子真的“钻进去了”。做作品时，Jimmy常常把自己关在房间里，一坐就是几个小时。妈妈叫他吃饭，叫不动——“不弄完不出房门，饭也不吃。”那种废寝忘食的投入，是装不出来的。

What truly reassured his mother was seeing that her son had genuinely "immersed himself" in it. While working on his portfolio, Jimmy would often lock himself in his room for hours. When his mother called him for meals, he wouldn't budge—"I won't come out until I'm done, and I won't eat." That kind of absorbed dedication can't be faked.

圣埃克苏佩里曾言：“若想让人造船，不要驱使他们去收集木材、分配任务，而要激起他们对浩瀚大海的向往。”从昔日对商科“入不了脑”的抗拒，到如今在艺术世界里“钻进去了”的痴迷，Jimmy让我们看到了“渴望大海的力量”，可以有多强大。

Saint-Exupéry once said, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and assign tasks, but teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." From his former resistance to business studies that he "couldn't get into his head," to his current obsession with the art world where he "immerses himself," Jimmy shows us just how powerful the "longing for the sea" can be.

02.

他的每个作品，都在说话

Every One of His Works Speaks

熟悉Jimmy的人都知道，他是一个心思极其细腻、有些内向的双鱼座男生。他不爱说话，能避免和人直接对话的场景他都尽量避免，甚至在餐厅点菜时都会不想和服务员交流。

Those who know Jimmy well know he is an extremely sensitive, somewhat introverted Pisces. He doesn't like to talk and avoids situations requiring direct conversation whenever possible, even feeling reluctant to order food by speaking with servers at restaurants.

然而，正是这种向内探索的性格，让他拥有了捕捉他人忽略的情绪细节的能力。

Yet, it is precisely this inwardly exploring personality that grants him the ability to capture emotional details others overlook.

Coco老师说：“Jimmy不爱说话，但他的作品会说话。他的每一件设计都从自己的生活出发，颜色大胆，结构天马行空。那不是技巧堆出来的，是心里真的有东西。”

Teacher Coco says, "Jimmy doesn't talk much, but his works speak. Every one of his designs originates from his own life, with bold colors and imaginative structures. It's not something piled up by technique; it's because he truly has something inside."

作为一个不善言辞的男孩，Jimmy选择用服装来外化他内心那些无法言说的情绪波动。

As a boy not good with words, Jimmy chooses to use clothing to externalize the indescribable emotional fluctuations within him.

他将从小到大情绪的起伏转化为抽象的线条，计划亲手用铁丝扭制成“情绪骨架”。这个过程异常艰难，铁丝坚硬难塑，Jimmy拧了一个星期都进展缓慢，甚至产生了动摇。

He transformed his emotional ups and downs from childhood into abstract lines, planning to twist them by hand into an "emotional skeleton" using wire. This process was exceptionally difficult. The wire was hard and resistant; after a week of slow progress, Jimmy even began to waver.

关键时刻，Coco老师没有替他做，而是拉着Zoe老师，三个人在隔壁教室陪他待了一个晚上。那一晚，老师只是一直在旁边陪着、问着、鼓励着。在老师的陪伴下，铁丝在手里一点点成型，他第一次觉得：“原来我能做到。”

At the critical moment, Teacher Coco didn't do it for him. Instead, she brought Zoe teacher, and the three of them stayed with him in the adjacent classroom for an entire evening. That night, the teachers simply accompanied him, asked questions, and offered encouragement. With their support, the wire gradually took shape in his hands, and for the first time, he felt: "So I really can do this."

受艺术家Karabo Poppy启发，他将自己小学时期的照片进行像素化处理，提取出高饱和度的色块，并与嘻哈文化中亮眼、不羁的配色相结合。

Inspired by artist Karabo Poppy, he pixelated photos from his elementary school days, extracted high-saturation color blocks, and combined them with the bright, unrestrained color palettes of hip-hop culture.

Jimmy的作品（部分）

最终，坚硬的铁丝骨架支撑起柔软却色彩炸裂的面料，袖子与领口被解构重组，呈现出一种“冲突的美感”——这不仅是衣服，更是他内心那个“安静却充满爆发力”的自我的真实写照。

In the end, the rigid wire skeleton supported soft yet explosively colorful fabric. Sleeves and collars were deconstructed and reassembled, presenting a kind of "aesthetic of conflict"—this was not just clothing, but a true portrayal of the "quiet yet explosive" self within him.

如果说第一个作品是向内的探索，第二个系列《信息过载：小区广告的荒诞重构》则是他对外部世界敏锐而独特的捕捉。

If the first work was an inward exploration, the second series, "Information Overload: The Absurd Reconstruction of Community Advertisements," represents his keen and unique capture of the external world.

灵感来自于他曾居住的老小区里那些随处可见、被人嫌弃的“牛皮癣”小广告。在别人眼中杂乱无章的“通下水道”、“办证”传单，他却觉得“那种信息过载的感觉挺有意思的”。

The inspiration came from the ubiquitous, often-despised "psoriasis" advertisements in the old residential community where he once lived. While others saw only chaotic "unclog drains" and "ID processing" flyers, he felt, "That feeling of information overload is quite interesting."

他拍摄并收集这些广告，研究其刺眼的高对比度配色和混乱的排版逻辑，将这些“垃圾信息”进行艺术化重构。

He photographed and collected these ads, studied their glaring high-contrast color schemes and chaotic layout logic, and artistically reconstructed this "junk information."

他在布料上手写模仿小广告文字，贴上胶带、废纸，通过层叠与涂鸦制造出混乱却充满生命力的肌理，甚至将代表秩序的西装元素与代表无序的广告元素强行拼接。

He hand-wrote imitations of ad text onto fabric, applied tape and scrap paper, used layering and graffiti to create chaotic yet vibrant textures, and even forcibly spliced elements representing order (like suits) with elements representing disorder (the ads).

Jimmy制作的打样稿

这个系列充满了常人眼中“错误”的颜色搭配和杂乱的图层，但恰恰这种“乱”精准地传达了信息时代的焦虑与过载，展现了他敢于将“丑”转化为“美”的勇气。

This series is full of what many would see as "wrong" color combinations and messy layers, but it is precisely this "chaos" that accurately conveys the anxiety and overload of the information age, demonstrating his courage to transform "ugliness" into "beauty."

这种内向与爆发的反差，在他高二暑假的独立实践中体现得淋漓尽致。

This contrast between introversion and explosion was fully displayed during his independent project in the summer of 11th grade.

那个夏天，他独自一人前往广州，张罗着衣服的打版落地，聘请专业模特进行拍摄。对于一个平时连点菜都害羞的男孩来说，这需要巨大的勇气。

That summer, he traveled alone to Guangzhou, managing the pattern making and production of his garments, and hiring professional models for a photoshoot. For a boy usually too shy even to order food, this required immense courage.

拍摄现场，模特在试衣间换衣服，他就一直在门外紧张地等待，手心全是汗。然而，当模特穿着他设计的成衣走出试衣间的那一刻，他眼中的紧张瞬间被超级自豪和骄傲所取代。

At the shoot, while the models changed in the dressing room, he waited anxiously outside, his palms sweating.However, the moment the models stepped out wearing the garments he designed, the tension in his eyes was instantly replaced by immense pride and a sense of accomplishment.

那是他第一次真切地感受到，自己的热爱可以具象化为如此美好的存在。

It was the first time he truly felt that his passion could materialize into something so beautiful.

03.

跨越语言的“奇迹”面试

The "Miraculous" Interview That Crossed Language Barriers

性格内向的Jimmy，面临着最大的挑战：高难度的全英文面试。ESMOD作为国际顶尖学府，对语言能力有着严格要求，通常需雅思6.0以上。

For the introverted Jimmy, the biggest challenge was the high-difficulty, all-English interview. As a top international institution, ESMOD has strict language requirements, typically demanding an IELTS score of 6.0 or above.

为了帮他跨过这道坎，学校从高二开始就为他安排了密集的一对一面试辅导。班主任、外教轮番上阵，模拟真实的面试场景。

To help him overcome this hurdle, the school arranged intensive one-on-one interview coaching starting from 11th grade. His homeroom teacher and foreign teachers took turns simulating real interview scenarios.

面试定在2月24日，整个寒假，Coco老师都在和他线上对着可能遇到的问题进行演练，甚至提前从老家哈尔滨赶回南昌陪考。

The interview was scheduled for February 24th. Throughout the winter break, Teacher Coco practiced potential questions with him online, and even returned early from her hometown, Harbin, to Nanchang to support him during the exam.

寒假期间，Coco老师对Jimmy进行面试指导

面试前几天，Jimmy天天把自己关在房间里，对着英语和要点一遍遍背。电脑屏幕上贴满了便利贴，密密麻麻写着自己怕忘掉的东西。

In the days leading up to the interview, Jimmy locked himself in his room daily, repeatedly memorizing English and key points. His computer screen was covered with sticky notes, densely packed with things he was afraid of forgetting.

妈妈看着既心疼又紧张，再三叮嘱他要记得问老师注意事项。

His mother watched, both concerned and nervous, repeatedly reminding him to ask Teacher Coco for important points and reminders.

线上面试当晚，紧张还是如期而至。当面试官问出第一个问题时，Jimmy大脑空白了五六秒，回答得磕磕巴巴，自我介绍甚至因为紧张忘词，他说，“平时准备的那些问题，一个都没问。”那几秒，他觉得自己完了。

On the night of the online interview, nervousness arrived as expected. When the interviewer asked the first question, Jimmy's mind went blank for five or six seconds. He answered haltingly, even forgot his prepared self-introduction due to nerves. He later said, "None of the questions I'd prepared for came up." In those few seconds, he thought he was finished.

面试结束后，Jimmy陷入了深深的焦虑。他担心自己搞砸了，等待的日子里经常失眠，甚至梦见自己被拒。每天醒来第一件事就是刷新邮件，却什么也没有。

After the interview, Jimmy fell into deep anxiety. He worried he had messed up. During the waiting period, he often suffered from insomnia and even dreamed of being rejected. Waking up, his first act every day was to refresh his email, but there was nothing.

戏剧性的一幕发生了：24日结束面试，26日学校其实已经发送了录取信，却被Gmail误判进了垃圾信箱，整整躺了12天。直到Coco老师忍不住去询问对方，才知道好消息早已抵达。

Then came the dramatic twist: the school had actually sent the admission letter on the 26th, just two days after the 24th interview. But Gmail had mistakenly flagged it as spam, where it lay for a full 12 days.It wasn't until Teacher Coco couldn't wait any longer and proactively inquired that they learned the good news had arrived long ago.

录取offer信

面试官在评价中写道：“他的英语不太好，但我看到了他的巨大潜力。”随后，学校甚至发来一封邮件，免除了Jimmy的语言成绩要求，直接降条件录取。

In his evaluation, the interviewer wrote: "His English isn't very good, but I see his immense potential." Subsequently, the school even sent an email waiving Jimmy's language score requirement, offering him a direct conditional admission.

免除语言成绩要求的offer信

那这个“时装界的哈佛”，怎么来挑选生源呢？Jimmy是在哪些方面，打动了面试官们呢？

So how does this "Harvard of Fashion" select its students? In which aspects did Jimmy move the interviewers?

答案只有一个：纯粹的热爱。

There is only one answer: pure passion.

正如教授们所看重的：你对新东西是否有兴趣？听到一些新的点子时，你是否真的兴奋？是否有动力想要去做些什么？Jimmy的作品集里那份从生活中生长出来的真诚、那份敢于打破常规的勇气，以及他在面试中虽然笨拙却无比真实的表达，恰恰证明了他是那块值得雕琢的璞玉。

As the professors value: Are you interested in new things? When you hear new ideas, are you genuinely excited? Do you feel motivated to do something? The sincerity growing from life in Jimmy's portfolio, his courage to break conventions, and his clumsy yet incredibly authentic expression during the interview—all of these precisely prove he is that raw gem worth polishing.

得知消息的那一刻，Jimmy妈妈又高兴又激动：“这小子不错，挺争气的！”她最想说的，是感谢。“Coco老师平时对他很关心，每个寒暑假都要给他补课。没有老师这样辛勤地付出教导，Jimmy也不会有这样的成绩。”

The moment she heard the news, Jimmy's mother was overjoyed and excited: "This kid's not bad, he's really made us proud!" What she wanted to express most was gratitude. "Teacher Coco always cared for him so much, tutoring him every winter and summer break. Without the teacher's diligent efforts and guidance, Jimmy wouldn't have achieved this."

从天行到巴黎，从商科“学不进去”到“服装界哈佛”，Jimmy用了两年。

From Teensen to Paris, from business studies he "couldn't get into his head" to the "Harvard of Fashion," it took Jimmy two years.

我们相信，每一个孩子都有自己的节奏。有人适合商科，有人适合艺术；有人天生外向，有人说话声音小。

We believe every child has their own rhythm. Some are suited for business, some for art; some are naturally extroverted, some speak softly.

教育从不是把孩子塑造成某种标准件，而是提供土壤与阳光，让每一颗种子都能按照自己的节奏，长成它原本该成为的模样。”

Education is never about molding children into some standard part. It's about providing soil and sunlight, allowing every seed to grow, at its own pace, into what it was meant to become.

在天行，我们见证过太多这样的“奇迹”。

At Teensen, we have witnessed too many such "miracles."

但其实，每一个奇迹，都只是热爱被尊重、努力被看见、成长被等待之后，自然而然的结果。

But in truth, every miracle is simply the natural result that occurs after passion is respected, effort is seen, and growth is patiently awaited.

Jimmy的船已经起航，驶向他心驰神往的那片海。

Jimmy's ship has set sail, heading towards the sea he has always longed for.