Wuhan Fashion Week: Chinese style leads the fashion trend
The standing collar of the Chinese gown, the flat cutting of the Republic of China style cheongsam, the hand-made buckle of the traditional craft... At the recently concluded 2023 Wuhan Fashion Week, 16 designers and 13 ready-to-wear brands staged 15 fashion shows in Wuhan, Hubei province, creating a multi-national aesthetic immersion feature show.
Wuhan Fashion Week has been held for 11 years, and its influence in the global fashion field continues to increase. In recent years, Wuhan Fashion Week has combined Chinese culture with contemporary fashion with a series of "hardcore" shows. "Chinese style" leads the fashion trend and makes the world feel the surging power of Chinese design.
At the closing show of Wuhan Fashion Week 2020, fashion designer Wang Zifei unveiled her new 2021 Spring/Summer collection, bringing a visual feast of "innovative Chinese style", integrating elements of Chinese culture such as horses,
koi carp, waves, flowers and plants into simple and elegant outline design with hand-embroidered, intangible cultural heritage song brocade, ink and other forms. Giving each garment the spirit of "unique, never follow the trend" breaks the inherent limitations of traditional "Chinese style" and expounds the new form of "Chinese style" in the international context.
2021 Wuhan Fashion Week, with the theme of "Han · Tide", set off the traditional Chinese clothing fashion trend represented by "Hanfu". This fashion Week has set up an intangible heritage show,
and the Qipao brought by the non-genetic inheritors of Wuhan Business School made an amazing appearance, taking the audience through time and space, to the Qipao era of clothing and hair, and met the prosperous Dahankou 100 years ago.
2023 Wuhan Fashion Week, the national wind national tide played the "strongest sound". Fashion designer Xiong Ying with the brand Gaia legend of the new "Fuguang" clothing series to fashion week, ink dots dyed mountains and rivers,
Xiangyun with flying wild cranes, from the national mountains to Jiangnan water, from the fluttering orchid grass to flowers and birds, the natural spirit of the earth of China into the clothing. "Let the city and clothing combine to express the Oriental charm and Wuhan characteristics." This is how Xiong Ying explains his design concept.
In the show of 2023 Wuhan Fashion Week, fashion designer Wang Zifei took "clear mind and view Way" as the theme, and presented an artistic aesthetic feast through abstract ink and geometric deconstruction of Chinese architecture.
Fang Yiyi Qipao's brand show "connecting the past and the next", inheriting traditional culture, revealing fashion innovation, interweaving retro charm and modern aesthetic. Fang Yiyi is a non-genetic inheritor of Han embroidery,
she said: "Chengshang means the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture. The next step is to integrate the innovative methods of modernity into it and open up a broader fashion path."
Industry insiders said that Wuhan Fashion Week starts from Wuhan, goes out of China and runs to the world, and has become an international stage for fashion release and a platform for docking fashion resources. On this stage, why is the national wind and tide singing the "protagonist" and becoming the focus, attracting more and more attention?
"Adhering to the Chinese expression gives me enough confidence, and the firm cultural confidence also gives me my own attitude and confidence." Fashion designer Zhang Yan was invited to participate in New York Fashion Week when he was 24 years old,
he loves to tell the amazing eastern story of the world, with personality tailoring to define the new Chinese aesthetic, "I have participated in many fashion weeks around the world, the Wuhan show in my opinion is very international, I was deeply impressed."
"Our Chinese Chaozhou embroidery is no worse than Italian embroidery and no worse than French lace." Costume designer Fang Lihua grew up with her grandfather to watch the play,
the exquisite embroidery on the costume has become a memory of her Chinese culture, "take the ancient as the source, melt the ancient for yourself, and change the ancient for the new, in order to stand the baptism of time."
Fashion designer Wang Zifei said that the new generation of young Chinese designers have a deeper understanding of traditional Chinese elements after full research, and at the same time, they are more confident in expression and use Chinese elements suitable for themselves, which represents a new look of young people.
"It's a good time for designers." "Cocoon trace" brand designer and principal Li Na said that the return of the national tide and the national style are popular, the most important thing for us is to create more good works,
so that more young people can pay attention to the national tide and fall in love with the national tide, only in this way can we better carry forward traditional culture and strengthen cultural confidence.
According to reports, Wuhan Fashion Week will continue to polish the city's fashion business card, help Wuhan build an international consumption center city that leads the central region, serves the whole country and links the world, and accelerate the building of the central region's "fashion capital".
