Recently, the “2020 China Fashion Design Competition Preliminary Evaluation Meeting” was held online.
This online preliminary evaluation meeting invited Li Dangqi, former secretary and dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University/seventh chairman of the China Fashion Designers Association/professor and doctoral supervisor , Qi Mei, Vice President of the China Fashion Color Association and Director of the Fashion Trend Department of the China Textile Information Center, Agnes Kubiak, Asia Partner/Creative Director of French Style-Vision, Bian Xiangyang, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Art at Donghua University, Donghua University Li Jun, Executive Vice President and Associate Professor of Shanghai International College of Fashion and Innovation; Art Director of Shenzhen Yonghui Fashion Commodity Management Consulting Co., Ltd. and Golden Top Award Designer Liu Yong; Founder/Chief Designer of EACHWAY Fashion Group and Golden Summit Award Designer; Seven review experts including top prize designer Zhao Huizhou carried out the selection process, and finally selected the finalists after work selection, online voting, information verification, statistics, and final review.
Finalists announced
After a fair and rigorous selection, the competition finally selected 10 outstanding designers who entered the finals.
2020 China Fashion Design Competition Finalists (ranked in no particular order)
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李 Dangqi
As for the overall performance of the competition, Li Dangqi said that this competition is designed with the four themes of “2021 Spring and Summer Chinese Textile Fabric Trends” as the design direction, with a distinctive theme , clear requirements, clear guidance, and strong operability. The overall level of the entries has been significantly improved compared to the past. The overly exaggerated, complicated and over-designed entries in previous years have been restrained. Simple and concise entries are more concentrated. The works are both innovative and practical, in line with popular trends and have market potential. , is a further interpretation and deduction of the fashion trends of Chinese textile fabrics using design language. I believe that such a competition will effectively promote the development of my country’s textile and clothing industry and the growth of clothing design talents.
Qi Mei
“The number and quality of entries this year exceed those of previous years, which proves that the organization of the competition is very effective! Using fashion trends as the design guidance direction for contestants is a very professional way, which not only points out the direction for contestants, but also avoids being unreasonable and unreasonable. Allowing freedom also gives a broad space, because popular trends will include a variety of design styles, allowing contestants to have full creative space.” Qi Mei spoke highly of the competition organizing committee and also said that from the participating groups It seems that the works of independent designers are more mature and commercialized, while the works of school students are more creative, but slightly weaker in ready-to-wear design. Judging from the presentation effect of the works, the works selected by some colleges and universities are relatively immature, and their expressiveness, fashion sense, and presentation methods need to be improved; however, there are also a considerable number of designers whose design works are very strong in systematicity, series sense, and commercialization. The interpretation of trends and the selection of fabrics are very good, in line with the direction of fashion trends and fashionable.
Agnes Kubiak
“The overall level of this year’s entries is very high. They are grouped according to trend themes and designed within the same theme concept. Some renderings are very creative and can give us more room for imagination when making clothing. .At the same time, it is recommended that contestants create more personalized and diversified styles when designing their works, and consider the organic combination of design concepts and market applications.” Agnes Kubiak commented.
Bian Xiangyang
Talking about the design style of this year’s entries, Bian Xiangyang said that the design style of this year’s entries is in line with the theme and design direction requirements of “2021 Spring and Summer Chinese Textile Fabric Trends” and has strong design innovation. Most of the entries focus on the application of design elements, emphasizing the comprehensive expression of fabrics, colors, patterns and craftsmanship, focusing on the coordination of the overall matching of clothing, emphasizing the integrity of the shape and visual expression, taking into account the balance between design and business, Emphasize the practicality, commercial value and market potential of the works after they are made into garments. The entries can be designed in combination with fabric resources, which specifically improves the ability to combine design with the market.
Li Jun
Li Jun expressed the same view on the combination of design and business. “This year’s entries not only take advantage of the common elements of fashion trends, but also achieve an organic combination with commercial application fields, from style to silhouette.��Details and other aspects are used to interpret fashion. “In addition, Li Jun also said that the designs of some of the entries this year paid attention to the themes of traditional Chinese culture, and cleverly combined them with popular trend elements for innovative interpretations, highlighting the characteristics of Chinese fashion culture. He said that the entries are improving the creativity of fabric composite recycling The application needs further improvement.
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Zhao Huizhou
Zhao Huizhou said that the design of this year’s entries is more systematic and complete, mainly divided into Creative clothing and practical clothing. Creative works fully interpret colors, fabrics and styles, bringing more production inspiration to designers; practical clothing combines the application fields of art and market, and has certain reference for the realization of commercial value . The competition can tap more fashion design talents, promote designers’ accurate judgment of the market, and make more contributions to the clothing industry. This is the significance and value of the competition.
The June finals are exciting
This competition received a total of 2,300 submissions from nearly 500 designers and students at home and abroad. The remaining design drawings. The collection of works was during the most severe period of the epidemic. The competition organizing committee and the contestants overcame many difficulties, and after many efforts, the competition was finally completed with fruitful results. This is not easy under the epidemic.
The 2020 China Fashion Design Competition is guided by the China Textile Industry Federation, jointly sponsored by the China Textile Information Center, the National Textile Product Development Center and the Shengze Town People’s Government, and China Oriental Silk Market Management Committee Special support. This year’s entries are all centered around the four themes of “2021 Spring and Summer Chinese Textile Fabric Trends” researched and released by the China Textile Information Center and the National Textile Product Development Center, namely, the original force field, the happy traveler, the pole of time and space, and the trend. Wanji’s four design directions cover men’s clothing, women’s clothing, and children’s clothing. It is outstanding in the comprehensive application of design elements such as fabrics, colors, patterns, and craftsmanship, and in grasping fashion trends.
It is reported that the 10 finalist designers will participate in the Shengze Fabric Enterprise Matchmaking Event at the end of April. Both parties will produce ready-made garments based on the theme of the competition; on June 16, the designers’ ready-made garment works will be displayed at the 2020 Shengze Fashion Week At the opening ceremony of the 7th Jiangsu (Shengze) Textile Expo online exhibition and the award ceremony of the 2nd China Fashion Design Competition, the final show was performed and 6 gold, silver and bronze awards were competed.</p
