Chen Zhigang, Donghua, Won The 2011 Star Creation Asian Youth Design Competition Award.

Hunan - Shanghai - Sydney - Singapore, where is the next stop? During his three years of learning in Raffles in Donghua, Chen Zhigang has accomplished too many dreams and achieved too many goals. It is really hard to predict where he will go next. From the first brilliant debut in the CCTV starry sky competition, to the stage of the 2011 Shanghai fashion week with its own "time and women" series, and then to Sydney's fashion week's invitation to go to Australia to display its works, now it has won the 2011 Star Creation prize just now in Singapore. All this is too fast and unexpected. The big dream in Chen Zhigang's heart has never changed. If he has enough experience, he will create his own brand of design. Maybe five years, maybe ten years, is not far away.

Chen Zhigang, who was born in the rural area of Changde, Hunan in 1983, is not an ordinary university road. He loved painting and wanted to learn fashion design. He could not get support from his family. His parents were native farmers. In their eyes, only good reading is the right way. In secondary school, he studied the fur of graphic design. After graduation, he went to Shenzhen to develop and then transferred to Beijing. "After saving enough money, I didn't want to continue my graphic design, so I decided to quit my job and go to the best fashion design school in China." Chen Zhigang's dream has not changed. Because of his weak basic culture curriculum, he decided to choose Donghua Raffles in the design world with excellent reputation and "independent" talent to pursue fashion design major. He went to Shanghai, a modern metropolis. Through three years of study, Chen Zhigang finally came to the fore in the most professional design competition in China, and then embarked on the domestic and international fashion stage.

Referring to the 2011 Asian Star young designer competition held in Singapore in just this year, the new champion didn't show any extraordinary excitement. He just smiled and said, "people have to go out and get stronger and believe in themselves." Before going to Singapore to take part in Star Creation, the mood was almost the same as before the fashion week in Sydney. She was just a student. What strength and foreign mature designer PK? "But when you really get to the bigger stage, you will find that you have to learn a lot, but you have a lot of it," he said. "I always appreciate that the alma mater has provided me with the most advanced information and opportunities to give the students the opportunity to contact outside the school as much as possible, which may be different from that of the traditional universities in China. The concept of Raffles in Donghua has repeatedly urged me to go out in front of the sky, which may be the reason I chose this college.

"I do not think how lucky I am. I am more likely to strive for opportunities than others, regardless of the opportunities that I strive for or the opportunities that the school offers." In Donghua, Raffles read 3 grade, Chen Zhigang knew that he might not be able to compete only with his classmates, so he took senior students as his benchmark. When he was in Grade 5, he realized that he had to use his alma mater's platform to go out and look at the wider stage. So, he took part in the design competition once again and again under the recommendation of the professional teacher. From the JEANSWEST design competition, every experience of competition is like taking off a skin. Chen Zhigang mentioned in particular the Liz teacher of the Raffles fashion design department in Donghua. This elegant and friendly Singaporean teacher will share with him the design concept and the revision after each competition. "I call her Liz mother, because she feels as warm as my mother in Shanghai. I am very close to her view of fashion. I benefited a lot from the process of sharing and communicating with Liz. Chen Zhigang was very pleased to learn three years from a teacher with similar ideas. "Every time I enter a competition, I feel full of strength. I am not fighting alone. Raffles in Donghua is my strong backing, giving me the most practical support. "

In a short span of one year, Chen Zhigang, a student designer, reaped the praise of many circles. The famous model Rhododendron, dressed in his award-winning works in the starry sky, repeatedly praised the "white dream" dress, which is "too beautiful". Li Daqi, a famous stylist in Taiwan, mentioned that the young designer who had worked in his company gave an evaluation of "great potential and unlimited future". Derek Lam, a Chinese designer who wrote the name of New York fashion circle, evaluated his work and said, "I like his color, pure, and it also expresses the visual effects that only movies can convey." And Parsons, Dean of the New York School of design, native designer Ye Mingzi and Wang Wei, have also become good friends who often contact him. When honour and luck superimposed on Chen Zhigang, he became clearer about his future expectations.

After winning the Star Creation award, Chen Zhigang won a year long offer in Singapore's FJ Benjamin company, which means he will go to Singapore to take the road of designer. The story of young designer Chen Zhigang is far from over. The Raffles graduate in Donghua is gradually realizing his planned life ideal while creating more unexpected perfect possibilities. "Working in a first-class brand can give me more experience, accumulate more and accumulate more for my own brand. Maybe in five years, maybe ten years, you will see my brand completely." Talent, diligence plus a good school, what else is impossible?