Ni Yangsheng: Delivered A Speech At The 8Th China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival And Released The Global Fashion Index

Ni Yangsheng, president of China Textile and Garment Education Association, said in his speech: As a fashion hotspot, Shenzhen's fashion industry has a pivotal position in the country in terms of industrial resources, innovation vitality and talent quality. As a national textile and garment education industry organization, China Textile and Garment Education Association will continue to support the cultivation of high-quality talents and innovative development of the fashion industry in the Greater Bay Area and Shenzhen.

The 7th China International Fashion Design Innovation Contest and the 7th China University Student Fashion Model Contest, which are co sponsored by the China Textile and Garment Education Association, will be held in this fashion festival. Shenzhen International Fashion Festival will become a star avenue for students to achieve their dreams.

This Fashion Festival will also hold the Industry University Research Committee of China Textile and Clothing Education Association and the Third China Textile Industry University Research Forum, which will lead more industry university research resources to Shenzhen and jointly create a fashion talent highland in the Greater Bay Area.

The 2022 Global Fashion City Index was released at the opening ceremony of this Fashion Festival. The results show that Shenzhen ranks fourth, once again pushing Tokyo into the top five of the six major fashion cities, marking a strong increase in the primacy of Shenzhen as a global fashion city. The index release also shows that the global fashion map is undergoing historic changes in the direction of "equal emphasis on the east and the west, and leading the way".

In addition, this index release also shows that the global fashion landscape has undergone a historic change, from "the west is spreading to the east, Europe and the United States are dominant" to "both east and west, leading the way". Historically, each adjustment of relative strength between countries will bring about changes in cultural centers and fashion centers, and reveal three phenomena. First, the global fashion landscape presents greater uncertainty, The multipolarization and isolation are intensified, and the butterfly effect is more generalized. Second, the fashion industry has entered a new consolidation period, breaking and restructuring, subversion and restructuring, giving fashion latecomers unprecedented opportunities. Third, the fashion community has become the global fashion language, and the fashion concept of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and inclusiveness has gradually become the global consensus.

Zhou Shikang, president of Shenzhen Fashion Designers Association, said that the Global Fashion City Index is committed to creating a fashion community of equality, mutual learning, dialogue and inclusiveness. The release of global fashion cities has been held in Shenzhen for six consecutive times, indicating that Shenzhen is becoming a global fashion public opinion arena, which is also an important symbol of China's return to the home of global fashion. Behind the overall rise of Chinese fashion cities is the vigorous growth of designers and brands that focus on Chinese cultural connotation and life aesthetics. It is believed that Chinese fashion cities will accelerate the reconstruction of oriental cultural connotation and life aesthetics, build Chinese style fashion discourse and narrative system, create a fashion ecology with Chinese characteristics, world influence and era characteristics, and enhance the creativity and leadership of Chinese fashion culture.

It is reported that the Global Fashion City Index is the industry's first digital tool for judging and studying the global regional fashion capacity building. This global fashion city index has established a number of index systems, including industrial quality index, international image index, fashion environment index, public service index, innovation vitality index, etc., in terms of compilation principles, generation path, algorithm system and index selection. Guided by the evaluation analysis model of fashion city index, it has collected in-depth annual index data of global fashion cities, Form systematic evaluation results. On the basis of the first five sessions, the data is more detailed, the research is more professional, the tools are more scientific, and the global urban fashion industry coordinates are presented in a panoramic and three-dimensional manner.