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Attention: 2025 China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week Opens

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Guangdong; Fashion Week For College Students

　　 When the southern wind in May blows the curtain of early summer, a fashion feast belonging to Generation Z is grandly opened in Guangzhou International Textile City. From May 19 to 29, 2025 China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week will create a new generation fashion publishing platform integrating cutting-edge creativity, cutting-edge ideas, industry, education and research for Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area and even China with 11 days of non-stop creative bombing.

　　 As the first large-scale public welfare fashion event for fashion students in China, this year coincides with the 20th anniversary of China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week. Under the guidance of the Education Department of Guangdong Province, the People's Government of Haizhu District, Guangzhou, and the support of the Office of the Leading Group for Talent Work of the CPC Haizhu District Committee, it actively responded to the "Action Plan for Millions of Talents to Gather in South Guangdong", Sponsored by Guangdong Garment Industry Association, Guangdong Garment Designers Association and Guangzhou International Light Textile City, and supported by Kaihua Public Welfare · True Love Dream Special Fund as a public welfare partner, this Fashion Week will bring together 29 professional colleges and universities for wonderful performances, and also hold a number of theme activities to promote exchanges and cooperation between schools and enterprises, showing the diversified vitality of Chinese fashion in an all-round way, Provide a shining stage for the new generation of design forces.

　　 From icebreaker to industry benchmark

　　 20 Years of Yucai Road Weaves the Dream of Industrial Revitalization

　　 Twenty years of youth have blossomed, and twenty years of firewood has been handed down. Since the first fashion week was held in 2006, China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week has always resonated with colleges, universities and industries. With the task of cultivating fashion talents, it has jointly written a wonderful chapter in the construction of China's fashion industry through the concerted efforts of the whole industry chain.

　　 Over the past 20 years, China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week has always shouldered the dual mission of "talent incubator" and "industry engine", attracted 55 colleges and universities at home and abroad to participate, transported more than 200000 professional talents for the industry, linked more than 200000 textile and clothing enterprises, promoted more than 1000 industry university research cooperation projects, and indirectly led to an increase of output value of more than 10 billion yuan. This is the vivid practice of the "Action Plan for Millions of Talents to Gather in South Guangdong" in the field of fashion industry. Through policy empowerment and industrial ecological attraction, Haizhu has become a strong magnetic field for fashion talents in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. From the initial graduation works exhibition to the diversified ecology covering trend release, design competition and industry docking, College Students Fashion Week has become a key link between college education and enterprise needs. The Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area radiating from the textile business circle of Zhuhai Zhongda has become an ideal fertile ground for the growth of China's new fashion forces. From immature to mature, from exploration to guidance, this overpass has witnessed the sprouting and blooming of countless dreams, and also held up the future and hope of China's textile and clothing industry!

　　 As Chen Yu, Deputy District Chief of Haizhu District People's Government of Guangzhou, said in his opening speech, talents gather because of industry, and industry prospers because of talents. At the moment when Haizhu District implements a series of measures around "big industry, big base and big ecology", and comprehensively empowers the traditional textile and clothing industry through cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week is driving industrial transformation and upgrading with "talent leadership", and building a fashion brand export place with the textile business circle of Zhongda as the core The fashion trend leading territory, fashion trade distribution center, and fashion digital benchmark place inject a strong driving force into the building of a national empowerment center for the clothing and textile industry and help Guangzhou build an international fashion city.

　　 Creative storm sweeps over the overpass

　　 After the design, the wave builds the hottest "energy field" this summer

　　 Let youth speak, let dreams set sail. College Fashion Week has always been committed to building an exclusive stage for young designers to show creativity, imagine the future and meet challenges. On the stage of 2025 China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week, the new generation of designers are The unique creative language of generations reconstructs the fashion narrative: they turn sewing machines into paintbrushes and electric irons into knives, and integrate the essence of traditional culture, oriental aesthetic charm, humanistic care concept, sustainable development thinking, scientific and technological innovation elements and contemporary life breath into their works, presenting cutting-edge fashion trends.

　　 As the most promising opening drama of the year, the "Guangzhou International Textile City Cup" 2025 designated fabric group creative contest unlocked the dream linkage between innovative fabrics and cutting-edge design, and opened the dream overpass with a super wonderful fashion contest! Six powerful fabric enterprises, including Tianke Embroidery, Weisney, Second Square Textile, Dongchuang Textile, Huabo Society, and Light Knitting, joined hands with the creation teams of 12 clothing colleges and universities to compete in Guangzhou International Light Textile City. Extraordinary fabrics and excellent creativity went both ways to show the future of Guangdong fashion.

Mao Guowei, Vice President of Kaihua Group, issued plaque for the designated fabric supplier

　　 After fierce competition, the work of the creative team of Guangdong Vocational College of Arts and Arts of Dongchuang Textile Team "Weaving in the Late Autumn" won the most market value award; The work Silent Growth by the creative team of Guangdong Light Industry Technician College of Dongchuang Textile Team won the best stage effect award; The work "Floating Light" by the creative team of Guangzhou City Institute of Technology of Tianke Embroidery Team won the best fabric application award; The work "Shu Xu Weaving Language" by the creative team of Guangdong Institute of Technology of the Second Party Textile Team won the best craft production award; The work "Office Escape Plan" by the creative team of Beijing University of Technology (Zhuhai) of the Light Knitting Team won the most fashionable award.

　　 In the following agenda, 29 professional colleges and universities including South China Agricultural University, Guangdong University of Technology and Guangdong Vocational and Technical College will also bring their own wonderful performances. The gathering of these colleges and universities not only reflects the vigorous vitality of Guangdong fashion education, but also shows the profound thinking and vision of the new generation of designers on fashion design through the collision of multiple academic forces and cultures, so that creativity can affect the intangible world from the tangible space.

　　 The final of the 2025 "Guangzhou International Textile City Cup" Guangdong University Students' Excellent Fashion Design Competition will also be the final event of this Fashion Week, and the grand awards will be announced at the closing ceremony. Under the strict review of the professional jury composed of hall level design masters, the role was finally excluded from the awards. This ultimate contest, which gathers Guangdong's top design rookies, is eagerly awaited!

　　 Professional interpretation of the trend

　　 Zhihui Bay Area Jointly Explores the Way to Break the Industrial Situation

　　 With industrial wisdom as the pen, fashion trend as the ink, and as the energy pool of talent cultivation, China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week has raised a number of new generation of Chinese original design forces to rise and voice, which is also an important embodiment of the new quality productivity to promote science, education, industry and education to jointly promote maintenance and mutual promotion. It has been cultivated into a combination of cutting-edge ideas, focusing on fashion education A "think tank" platform leading industrial innovation.

　　 Fashion Week has built a whole chain cultivation system that runs through "teaching practice employment": through brand events such as "Guangzhou International Textile City Cup", students can face the market test directly; Rely on 2025 Guangdong textile and clothing industry supply chain docking exchange and other activities to achieve accurate docking from talent to industry; With the help of digital technology, create innovative exhibition forms such as virtual release, and lead the development of new technologies and applications. This mode of "promoting learning through competition and promoting exhibition through association" not only helps many young designers move from campus to enterprise, but also outlines a rare model for exploring the pioneering concept of fashion education.

　　 On the occasion of the opening of the new college students fashion week, the organizing committee specially planned the 2025 talent cultivation conference for modern textile and clothing industry, with the theme of "Haisi Splendid · Zhulian Digital Intelligence", focusing on the industrial development trend, and jointly planning to cultivate innovative talents to meet the needs of industrial development, so as to promote the digital intelligence transformation and sustainable development of the textile and clothing industry. Xia Lingmin, secretary-general of the China Textile Industry Federation, delivered a keynote speech, in-depth analyzing the digital and intellectual transformation of the textile and clothing industry and the new pattern of talent strategy.

Round table dialogue on "the way to break the situation of textile and clothing talent training in the digital intelligence era"

　　 Wang Shuiyuan, Vice President of the Circulation Branch of the China Textile Industry Federation, presided over the round table dialogue on "the way to break the situation of textile and clothing talent training in the digital intelligence era", Discussions were held on topics such as "how clothing education should cultivate compound talents who understand technology and have creativity, how to better meet the needs of the Bay Area's industrial development, how to make education pay more attention to the needs of new industries in the digital intelligence era, whether the core competitiveness of designers has changed, and what capabilities enterprises value most in the digital intelligence transformation", Li Dangqi, former secretary of the Party Committee, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, District Weiwen, director and professor of the Hong Kong Fashion Farm Foundation, Liu Yang, the highest award of Chinese fashion design, the lifelong honorary president of Guangdong Fashion Designers Association, the chairman and CEO of Huimei Fashion Group Experts and enterprise representatives such as Fang Jianhua, the founder of Inman brand, and Xie Tao, the founder of Guangzhou Wesney Textile Technology Co., Ltd., have respectively contributed their insights.

　　 In the new development period, industry university research application cooperation is an important way to promote scientific and technological innovation and industrial development. The Fashion Week also helped universities, enterprises and scientific research institutions reach cooperation intentions, and many parties will carry out cooperation contents such as co construction of practice bases, scientific research projects, and talent orientation training, providing strong support and guarantee for talent development in Haizhu industry. The first batch of interested institutions took the lead in completing the signing of industry university research cooperation intention at the opening ceremony.

　　 In addition, the conference officially released the Talent Cultivation and Empowerment Plan for Haizhu Modern Textile and Garment Industry ("Ten Rules"), which will give full play to the platform potential of China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week, deeply integrate the "Action Plan for Millions of Talents to Gather in South Guangdong", and promote the superposition of Haizhu AI big data and modern textile and garment industry advantages, By building the research brand of "Young Talents Haizhu Travel", establishing the textile and clothing industry alliance linked by "government, industry, university, research and application", preparing to build a modern textile and clothing industry research institute, holding an industry conference integrating urban promotion and policy release, giving full play to the advantages of digital marketing ecological resources, implementing the fashion industry craftsman training plan and other measures, To build a national empowerment center for the clothing and textile industry, make every effort to build a highland of fashion talent gathering, textile industry integration, digital intelligence empowerment application, and industrial craftsmanship leading, so as to empower the high-quality development of the textile and clothing industry and contribute wisdom and strength to the construction of a textile and clothing power.

　　 On the same day, the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University and the Institute of Fashion and Textile of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as the last two invited universities, presented a wonderful exchange performance, presented the latest educational achievements of China's top fashion universities, and demonstrated the innovative vitality of the new generation of industry. This is the embodiment of the open talent introduction concept of "millions of talents gather in southern Guangdong" - not only gathering local talents, but also attracting top design forces in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and the country with an international platform to build a "strong magnetic field" for fashion talents in the Greater Bay Area.

　　 Splendid silk, Zhulian Shuzhi

　　 Haizhu develops new quality productivity according to local conditions

　　 Haizhu has a profound traditional textile and clothing industry foundation and geographical advantages. The Zhongda Textile Business District has a complete industrial chain model around it. It has become the world's largest distribution center for all fashion clothing products and one of the world-class textile and fashion consumer business districts. In the past three years, Haizhu District has seized on the scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, promoted the integration of the two dominant industries of textile and clothing and digital, guided the first mover advantage of digital industry to deeply empower the whole chain of textile and clothing industry, promoted the accelerated convergence of a number of key enabling platforms based in Guangzhou and radiating across the country, and fostered a number of new leading apparel retail enterprises to accelerate their growth, Constantly lead the traditional textile and clothing industry to achieve "new quality development and energy upgrading", providing strong support for Guangzhou to accelerate the construction of a millennium commercial capital and a famous fashion city.

　　 More than 3000 resident designers gathered in the Zhongda Textile Business District. Personalized design customization platforms, artificial intelligence aided design software, and intelligent fabric design and development application scenarios have been constantly landing, accelerating from the bottom of the "smile curve" of the textile fashion industry chain to both ends. Haizhu District has not only five leading platforms, but also a group of leading clothing brands and more than 1000 cutting-edge clothing enterprises. By promoting the deep integration of the platform and the enterprise, and enabling the platform analysis, data analysis, product selection and testing, and launch optimization, a group of white brand businesses in the area have successfully achieved flow diversion, brand building, and sales expansion.

　　 Haizhu textile and garment industry has a rich talent pool and obvious advantages. It has both top garment talents and a large number of new quality talents. Haizhu gathers top talents in the whole chain of textile and clothing industry, gathers more than 10000 fashion designers, 5 winners of the Golden Summit Award, the highest award of Chinese fashion design, 13 national top ten fashion designers, and about 80 Guangdong top ten fashion designers. Every year, there are 12000 graduates of related majors in colleges and universities in Guangmei, Light Industry and other areas, and more than 2 million people in related industries are employed in Haizhu; At the same time, Haizhu District is also a highland of new quality talents. The total number of employees in the new generation information technology service industry in the region is nearly 100000, promoting the upstream and downstream industrial chains to gather more than 300000 industrial talents, including more than 5000 R&D talents involved in the empowerment of the textile and clothing industry.

　　 Next, Haizhu District will focus on the key links of the textile and clothing industry chain to do real number intelligent empowerment and transformation and upgrading, effectively release the new quality productivity contained in the traditional industry, form a new business type with excellent varieties, good quality and brand reputation, and build Haizhu into a global fashion brand headquarters gathering place, a strategic leader of digital intelligence empowerment, a fashion design exhibition and sales demonstration place, a pioneer of fashion culture and creativity A new highland of top scientific and technological craftsman, a modern textile and clothing industry system with a whole chain free from the control of others, and a national singles champion of textile and clothing industry in technology research and development, design process and other tracks, which is deeply consistent with the "Action Plan for Millions of Talents to Gather in South Guangdong". Guided by the needs of industrial upgrading, it accurately introduces "new quality talents", so that the talent chain and industrial chain Deeply integrate the innovation chain, jointly outline the future blueprint of Guangdong fashion industry, promote the integrated development of "production, life and ecology", and contribute Haizhu power to Guangzhou to accelerate the realization of new vitality of the old city and "four new and brilliant".

　　 Over the past 20 years, China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week has witnessed the growth and transformation of generations of young designers. This journey not only carries the youth dreams of countless new designers, but also promotes the inheritance of the spirit of "innovation and ingenuity" in China's fashion industry from generation to generation. As a special event for the 20th anniversary, China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week, with the theme of "20 Years of Dreaming, Gratitude and Peer", has devoted itself to the cultivation of colleges and teachers, the wisdom guidance of industry leaders The full support of partners from all walks of life and the enthusiasm and persistence of each fellow traveler express sincere thanks and high respect. Taking this as a new starting point, as an important link for the integration of industry, education, research and application, College Fashion Week is continuously promoting the coordinated development of the whole industrial chain, including design, education, manufacturing and consumption.

　　 From a faltering start to steady progress, from scale expansion to quality improvement, from local exploration to international vision, this 20 years is the growth history of China (Guangdong) College Students Fashion Week, which has constantly made breakthroughs. Now, standing at a new starting point, we are full of expectations to open the 2025 Fashion Festival. What kind of fashion wave will be set off this summer in Guangzhou International Light Textile City for this youth force Max's fashion journey of Generation Z? Let's look forward to and witness together!

(Source: Guangzhou International Textile Network)