At the end of the 2.5 hour race, the reporter looked forward to the Shaoxing Designer works did not appear. "The gap is still too far away." Shaoxing textile clothing Chen Qimiao, executive vice president of Designer Association, said.

Yesterday afternoon, the sixteenth "China Cup" International Costume Design Competition finals in China Textile City. fashion This is the first time that the top domestic clothing event has been out of Shanghai in 16 years. 25 groups of men's wear and 22 sets of underwear / beaches appeared in turn, plus the previous design competition for children's wear. Three fashion shows brought warmth to the winter Textile City.

"This is the result of the integration of the Yangtze River Delta." Talking about the reasons why so many top international judges can get together in Shaoxing, Liu Yaqing, Deputy Secretary General of Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival, and Secretary General of Shanghai international fashion and dress center, said. In fact, the former director of the office of Shanghai Textile Holding Group attached much importance to the collision between clothing events and industry. "The joint efforts of Shanghai and Shaoxing can push Chinese textile and clothing culture to a new industrial plateau."

This is also the expectation of many people in the industry. "The China Cup" emphasizes the combination of business and art. Wu Xuekai, chairman of the Chinese fashion designer's Art Committee, was very earnest when he commented on his work. "I hope that when the designers are designing their works, they will combine more creativity with business needs."

"The real vitality of creativity must be in line with the market's creativity." Professor Guo Jiannan, chairman of the competition jury, said that fabric is the basis of design. As the upstream of the garment industry, China Textile City is the source of designers' creativity, and the zero distance from the market is very beneficial to the future development of designers.

Such a vision is clearly the result expected by Shaoxing. "In recent years, the textile city has introduced a number of high specification clothing events, from the beginning is not willing to" marry ", now more and more willing to take the initiative to integrate. Shaoxing county government officials believe that the change of attitude of fashion designers is the result of Shaoxing textile extending to both sides of "smile curve", and also an opportunity to further create creative industries.

In the past two years, Chen Qimiao, one of the backstage drivers of creative industries in Shaoxing, has introduced dozens of top domestic clothing and fashion designers. In the creative industry base of China Light Textile City, a creative team of more than 600 professionals has stitched up the emerging industry chain of "fabric design clothing", and the introduction of the top event such as the "China Cup" is one of the links of this chain.

However, due to the lack of participation of local designers, some people in Shaoxing's textile and clothing industry still feel sorry. On the competition list, the reporter saw that many of the final entries came from teachers and students of famous art and design institutes in China. "As a major textile and garment market, universities in Shaoxing should cultivate more talents for the creative design of clothing." More than one interviewee did so.

But reporters found that until the end of the game, a place reserved for a local university was still empty.

Chen Qimiao told reporters that the term of cooperation with the "China Cup" is three years. In the future matches, people in Shaoxing will be involved in the whole event as far as possible. Even if they can't enter the final finals, let local school and enterprise designers participate in the preliminaries, which is also a way to "go out".