Waving Creativity and Dream

On April 28, Honghua Digital•China Graduate Fashion Week Annual Award 2014 is held in the Workshop of 751 d • PARK Fashion Design Square. The announcement of the results of the Annual Best Show Award of China Graduate Fashion Week, Excellent Show Award and Talents Training  Award，" JOEONE cup" 19th China Fashion Design New Designers Award Contest, the Annual China Fashion Design Award for Bringing up Talents, and Excellent Instructor Award marks a grand finale of Honghua Digital• China Graduate Fashion Week 2014 jointly sponsored by China Fashion Association, China Textile And Apparel Education Society and China National Garment Association.

The six-day Honghua Digital• China Graduate Fashion Week 2014 attracted 730 excellent fresh graduates  from 24 art colleges at home and abroad to show their designs in 751D•PARK and BIFT PARK by holding 40 professional activities like works shows, press conferences, workshops, exhibitions and lectures, seminars, professional evaluations, and awarding ceremony. More than 300 fashion journalists from domestic and overseas media attended the live report and session releases. over 733 fashion models and 12500 audiences also attended this events.

In the 24 colleges and universities, twenty-three colleges are from 12 provinces and regions, covering most concentrated areas of China textile and clothing industry. Eight of them made their debut in this graduate fashion week. Also, this fashion week will welcome the first overseas design institute—Raffles College of Design and Commerce (Australia).

These art colleges held 24 special graduate shows in the unit of college. The designs full of creativity and imagination, the high-spirited air when they took the curtain calls on stage appear on each art college graduates show. Graduates show their understanding of the times, the release of the special personality, the observation for way of life, the expression of art and culture, the innovation on material and process, the balance of creativity and market, and the cognitive performance of the relation between teamwork and personal characteristics through their designs , which is comforting and impressive. Undoubtedly, the new generation of college students with the most active ideas and inspiration has successfully made the first step of their own career by their design works filled with rich imagination and creative freedom. At the same time, they also use their work to present the achievements of professional education in their colleges and universities.

The published works of China Graduate Fashion Week shows the different education methods and professional style of current domestic fashion colleges, and the unbalance development of each regional colleges and universities.  Graduates with effective education method and stronger design ability are from regions with obvious industry advantage, and their mastery of the market pulse, the contemporary design method and fashion trends are more accurate. China Graduate Fashion Week provides an opportunity for different fashion colleges with advantages or characteristics to get to know each other and complement each other.

The promotion of the seamless docking among the firms, universities and research institutes is one of the important original intension. In order to strengthening the docking between colleges and universities, enterprises and fashion institutes, the sponsors of Honghua Digital• China Graduate Fashion Week 2014 working with famous fashion organizations at home and abroad hold a series of lectures, seminars and other professional activities ,including “Fashion Creativity and Design Public Lecture " hosted by the training center of China Fashion Association, "Wool Master Class” jointly hosted by International Wool Secretariat and China Fashion Association, the " Theme Salon of Youth Fur " co-hosted by Asian Entrepreneurs Committee and International Association of Fur and the summit forum with the theme of "Fashion brand innovation and improvement in the era of big data” co-organized by China Fashion Association and Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.

As one of the hosts of China Graduate Fashion Week , Beijing Dibaike Culture Development Ltd., planed and organized "China Graduate Fashion Week 2014 Personnel Recruitment", "751 Fashion Public Class" and other series of activities. Among them, the Personnel Recruitment" held on the square in front of Tank Zone of 751 D • PARK attracted a number of well-known domestic fashion enterprises to recruit proper talents, which building a strong professional and wide-range national platform and setting up a bridge of talent docking for professional college students and employers. in 751Fashion Public Class, the Unique industry experience and forward-looking information shared by "Golden Top Award" designer Wang Yutao’s, fashion director Zhang Jian&Xiao Bin, Fashion social platformP1, senior experts from buyer shops and 8foreign designers from Raffles College of Design and Commerce, made graduates know more about the fashion industry.

China Graduate Fashion Week is held in late April every year in Beijing. The main professional activities include works shows, press conferences, workshops, exhibitions and lectures, seminars, professional evaluations, and Talent recruitments. It aims to promote the fashion education achievement, present college students' creative design talent, improve entrepreneurship and employment for college students so as to further enhance the quality of education and teaching of China fashion education and better meet the demand for innovative design talents in the transformation and upgrading process of China's textile and apparel industry.

In order to have a further expanding space for China Graduate Fashion Week, the organizing committee will rename “China Graduate Fashion Week “to be "China International Graduate Fashion Week "from this event. Li Dangqi，the chairman of the China Fashion Association, " China International Graduate Fashion Week is an open platform  and we are very value it as it bring the effect of communication, display and docking efficiently between teachers, students and enterprises."

All the series of activities aim to carry out the communication and interaction among the firms, universities and research institutes in a deeper level, pursue the linkage of the profession starting point of professional design graduates and industries, and the seamless docking between college talent cultivation and the market demand, thus realizing the practical significance and strategic significance  of textile power dreams and the strategy of strengthening the nation through human resource development.

We are looking forward to more domestic and foreign colleges and universities participating in China Graduate Fashion Week nest year, and hoping more and more graduates find their career development direction through China Graduate Fashion Week,and expecting China Graduate Fashion Week to be a real incubator and booster to promote college graduates' entrepreneurship and employment.