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Interview With Zhou Shikang, Director Of The Organizing Committee Of China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival, To Help Shenzhen Move Towards A New Era Of Global Fashion Home.

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Zhou Shikang, director of the Organizing Committee of China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival

Recently, at the opening ceremony of the third China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival, the global fashion city index released the research team released the "global fashion city index", using index tools to conduct a scientific and systematic evaluation of the fashionable cities around the world.

The ranking cities were New York, London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Singapore, Shanghai and so on.

In particular, Shenzhen has become the sixth largest fashion capital in the world and has become an emerging global fashion home.

For this reason, the author gave an exclusive interview to Zhou Shikang, director of the Organizing Committee of China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival.

  

Q: Shenzhen is the source of China's unique fashion and the role of China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival in the construction of Shenzhen's international fashion capital.

A: at present, the fashion industry in Shenzhen is a powerful impetus for Shenzhen to build the "fashion capital of the world." fashion + has become a trend. Shenzhen is heading for the Asian Fashion home.

The Shenzhen Fashion Designers Association has successfully held the China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival for the three consecutive session, reflecting the high attention paid by the municipal government to the fashion industry, and greatly boosted the confidence of the industry and the enthusiasm of the citizens to participate.

The Shenzhen International Fashion Festival is a strategic and pioneering international and high-level professional activity organized by the global fashion industry in the turn of the times and the Chinese fashion industry entering a new historical orientation. It plays an important strategic fulcrum role for China to return to the global fashion home.

 

Q: the third Shenzhen Fashion Festival first released the global fashion city index, explaining the development elements of the global fashion city, and what reference value it will have for the evaluation of China and the world's fashion city construction.

A: for a long time, China's cities are the top echelons of fashion cities, and lack of professional, rational and systematic guidelines for the research, judgement and analysis of international fashion cities.

The global fashion city index system provides a professional quantitative tool for the outside world to evaluate and study the global capacity of fashion development. It fills the gaps in the analysis of global fashion city index. It not only provides decision-making reference for the government to promote the development of the industry, but also serves as a starting point for the exchanges and mutual learning among fashion cities, and opens up a fast track for international cooperation in the development of China's urban fashion capability and fashion industry.

 

Q: Shenzhen has always been in the forefront of innovation in the fashion industry. How do we see the coordinated development of Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai?

A: Shenzhen is a Chinese innovation center. The fashion industry is a solid endorsement. It is also one of the most important clothing industry bases in China with the most original brand, the most complete supporting industry and the most significant scale effect.

Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen should embrace development, coordinated development and coordinated development in the fashion industry. They should take the responsibility of establishing Chinese fashion culture and realizing fashion revival as the common responsibility, and work together for China's third wave of global fashion.

 

Q: the establishment of China Textile and garment University double foundation has provided a good backing for fashion education in Shenzhen. What kind of thoughts and expectations do you have for the training of fashion talents?

Answer: talents are flourish and industry is booming. The Fashion Designers Association of Shenzhen has been playing an active role in the service of industry organizations.

The establishment of China Textile and garment University double foundation will promote the deep integration of fashion education, market and industry, and provide more solid intellectual support for Shenzhen fashion industry.

The Shenzhen Fashion Designers Association will take this opportunity to promote cooperation between schools and enterprises, and integrate production and education, and build a more professional, market-oriented and internationalized talent incubation platform.

 

Q: as the operator of China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival, can you tell me what specific plans you have for the next fashion festival?

A: after three years of accumulation and growth, the fourth Fashion Festival will surely create greater achievements in a broader vision.

First of all, we want to turn the fashion festival into a landmark city brand in Shenzhen. We will make the global fashion city leaders forum, the China International Fashion Design Competition and the Chinese University Student Model Contest become the important platform for the global fashion designers, fashion designers and fashion designers to export to the world.

Secondly, fashion festival will further consolidate its function as a design talent and fashion talent incubator, make the Chinese textile and garment University double creation base do a solid job and make Shenzhen a home of global fashion talents.

In addition, the next fashion festival will pay more attention to promoting fashion brands and fashion consumption, attracting more fashion businesses to participate together, so as to better promote the development of fashion economy.

In conclusion, the future China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival will take a more open and shared spirit to conduct an all-round and multi-level interaction in the aspects of urban construction, talent exchange, brand cooperation and cross-border integration, so as to provide "Shenzhen wisdom and wisdom" and "Shenzhen plan" for the sustainable development of global fashion.

 

Q: as a successful pioneer in the garment industry for many years, you are approaching the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up. How do you view the changes and future development of Shenzhen's garment industry?

A: I am honored to be the witness, witness and builder of the fashion industry in Shenzhen. Zhu Xi has a poem: ask the canal so clearly that there is a source of water.

The spirit of innovation is the most solid foundation for Shenzhen's fashion industry. At present, the global fashion industry is facing a critical period of major adjustment. The fashion layout of "Europe and America is big and the west is getting stronger" is being rewritten. With the continuous enhancement of China's comprehensive national strength, China, with its reputation as "the kingdom of clothes and clothes," has ushered in the great strategic opportunity to "return to the global fashion home". Shenzhen has the ability to take advantage of the opportunities of the times and make great progress.

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