The Final Of The 12Th "Big Wave Cup" China Women'S Wear Design Competition Ended Perfectly

On the evening of February 27, the final ceremony of the 12th "Dalang Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition of "Vowel # East" was held at the International Fashion Publishing Center of Shenzhen Dalang Fashion Town. As the cold thaws, everything begins to blossom. In this fertile land of creativity that is full of vitality everywhere, a fashion journey in the real and virtual world blooms in the big wave fashion town

Leaders from the China Textile Industry Federation who attended the event included: Sun Ruizhe, president of the International Textile Federation and the China Textile Industry Federation, Chen Dapeng, vice president of the China Textile Industry Federation and president of the China Garment Association, Dong Qingsong, general manager of China Textile Press Co., Ltd., full-time vice president of the China Garment Association Monday Qi, Vice Chairman of China Fashion Designers Association, Li Bo, Deputy Director of China Textile Information Center, Yan Bo, Director of Industrial Economy Research Office of China Textile Information Center, Li Xin, Deputy Secretary General and Director of Cooperation Department of China Fashion Association, Zhou Jianping, Director of Shanghai Office of China Fashion Association, Deputy Director of Industry Department of China Fashion Association, Chief Editor of China Fashion Magazine Liu Xiaoqing, Director of the Organizing Committee of the "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition;

Leaders from Shenzhen and Longhua District include Pei Lei, Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress, Zhang Hua, Deputy Mayor of Shenzhen Municipal Government, Wu Yihuan, Vice Chairman of Shenzhen CPPCC, Hu Yun, Deputy Secretary General of Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Feimeng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Liu Jiachen, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of Shenzhen Municipal Government Service Data Management Bureau, Yang Haobo, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Civil Affairs Bureau, Zheng Xuan, the first level investigator of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Lei Weihua, the deputy secretary and head of Longhua District Committee, Guan Lianxiu, the chairman of Pingshan District CPPCC, Pi Yonghua, the deputy secretary of Longhua District Committee and the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Huang Limin, the member of the Standing Committee of Longhua District Committee of the CPC and the head of the Publicity Department, Ma Hong, the member of the Party Group and the deputy director of the Standing Committee of Longhua District People's Congress, Zhao Yanyan, the member of the Party Group and the deputy head of Longhua District Government, Ma Xiaoge, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC Longhua District.

After intense competition on the spot, contestant Huang Siyun won the "Golden Wave Award" (Gold Award) of the 12th "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition with his work "Free Poetics". Her works create elegant silhouettes through 3D simulation modeling technology. The designer implanted mechanical sensors in the traditional Miao bright cloth, and with the fluctuation of the sound, the fabric swayed like a breeze, causing admiration from the audience.

At the ceremony site, LED screens like magic cube were arranged and combined in an orderly manner to build multiple stage spaces, giving the audience a very powerful audio-visual experience, as if to bring everyone into a different world, shuttling back and forth between the virtual and the real. The following opening video led people to relive the unforgettable wonderful moments since the launch of the 12th "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition.

Since the 12th "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition of "Vowel # East" was launched in May 2022, it has attracted a large number of outstanding design talents to participate in the competition with its avant-garde theme and innovative competition system.

At present, the "meta universe" is coming with a strong force. People use digital technology to build a virtual world that interacts with the real world, and stimulate human creativity in the digital space. In such a surging "wave", the competition and the contestants travel together in the beautiful "meta universe" of the combination of reality and fiction, and build a diversified and integrated avant-garde fashion "new world".

This "Big Wave Cup" competition has received more than 1000 submissions. Competition system innovation and enterprises have conducted all-round cooperation to introduce design talents into a key link of China's clothing industry, once again becoming the "KOL" leading the domestic competition trend, which is a fashion event widely concerned by young people.

▲ Chen Dapeng, Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation and President of China Garment Association

Spring is everywhere when the east wind comes. Chen Dapeng, Vice President of the China Textile Industry Federation and President of the China Garment Association, said in his speech that the 20 major plans of the Party had drawn a grand blueprint for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese style modernization in an all-round way, and sounded the clarion call of the times for forging ahead in a new journey. The 12th "Dalang Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition was held at this time, which is precisely to practice the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress with practical actions, and also opened a new chapter in the development of Dalang Fashion Town in 2023.

"As the only design competition in the industry that continues to take the 'East' as the source of inspiration, the 'Big Wave Cup' focuses on promoting the development of China's women's clothing industry with cultural creation, constantly strengthening the spread of Chinese culture and aesthetics in the world, becoming a unique benchmark event in the industry, and also promoting the brand IP of professional events." Chen Dapeng said that over the past 12 years, The competition continues to promote the combination of Chinese excellent traditional culture and contemporary fashion, update the blood of Chinese fashion design in an inclusive manner with new forms, new attitudes and new styles, and create a contemporary fashion aesthetics that reflects the confidence of national culture.

At the same time, Chen Dapeng affirmed that the competition has built a broad platform for domestic and foreign fashion design talents to gather, display, develop, improve, and connect, and has continuously accumulated momentum for the development of China's clothing industry. Through the influence of talent docking and brand events, it has become a booster for the transformation and upgrading of Dalang Fashion Town.

　 ▲ Zhao Yanyan, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy head of Longhua District Government

"As a gathering place of fashion industry, design, creativity and innovation have always been the background of the town." Zhao Yanyan, a member of the Party Leadership Group of Longhua District Government of Shenzhen City and Deputy District Chief, said in her speech that the "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition is promoting the development of China's women's wear industry with its uniqueness and influence, and promoting the spread of Chinese cultural spirit to the world, And it has continuously cultivated many excellent designers. These contestants from the competition have successively won the title of "China's Top Ten Designers", established influential designer brands, and won unanimous praise in the industry.

Zhao Yanyan said: "These achievements are hard won. They cannot be separated from the long-term care and help of the China Textile Industry Federation for the development of Shenzhen's fashion industry, the consistent attention and support of the market and district levels to the fashion creative industry, the creation and investment of independent designers, fashion brands and leading enterprises in the town, and the perseverance of the people in the town in Longhua Dalang The struggle and dedication on the hot land! " In the future, Longhua District will fully shoulder the new mission of "digital Longhua, the core of the city" entrusted by the municipal party committee and the municipal government, focus on Dalang Fashion Town, more actively gather all forces, create a better industrial ecology, promote the accelerated development of fashion creative industry, accelerate the creation of a new growth pole of fashion consumption in Shenzhen, and further polish the gold lettered logo of Longhua Fashion IP, Improve the charm and influence of Dalang Fashion Town and attract more talents, enterprises and projects.

With the opening of the grand ceremony, WAVE, the first virtual spokesperson of the 12th "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition, officially debuted. The "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Contest followed the "Yuan Universe" boom, and launched a virtual spokesperson solicitation activity at the same time as the clothing design solicitation. WAVE, together with designers, became a high-profile "new star" in the contest. In the future, the "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition will join hands with WAVE to participate in more interactive links, enable the competition schedule with new technologies, and open up more imaginative new space for the competition in the "Metauniverse".

With the flexible and elegant interpretation of WAVE, the works of 21 groups of contestants in the 12th "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition of "Vowel # East" were performed brilliantly. The eyes of the whole audience followed the lights and focused on the models on the catwalk, which made the contestants show their exquisite and patiently polished works, which can be described as a journey full of fashion tension and intense gold medal winning.

Compared with the previous sessions, the 12th "Big Wave Cup" has made great innovation in the competition system - on the basis of the preliminary evaluation of the audition, the special training camp promotion competition has been added, which more tests the real talents of the players.

In the preliminary evaluation of the competition, 30 designers stood out from more than 1000 submissions. They are full of experts, including "Top Ten Fashion Designers" from Shenzhen and Hebei, mature designers with independent brands, and new generation designers from Beijing Institute of Fashion Design, Donghua University, Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, Central Academy of Fine Arts and other well-known professional colleges in China... They basically cover different types and overall ecology of current Chinese original fashion designers, It fully reflects the high level and attraction of the "Big Wave Cup" competition.

After the strict assessment of 30 players in the special training camp, 21 players were finally qualified to stand in the final ceremony. They are faced with the most rigorous comprehensive evaluation of the "judges' team", which can represent the strength of China's clothing industry and the level of designers.

The "jury team" in the final of the competition is still strong. They have a unique vision and are meticulous. Among them, many Chinese fashion designers have the highest honor "Golden Summit Award" designers: Wu Haiyan, the winner of the 5th "Golden Summit Award" for Chinese fashion design, professor and doctoral supervisor of China Academy of Fine Arts; Liu Yong, CEO and Creative Director of Yonghui Fashion Culture (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., winner of the 20th and 24th China Fashion Design "Golden Summit Award"; Zhao Huizhou, the winner of the 22nd China Fashion Design "Golden Summit Award" and the founder and chief designer of Yizhihui Fashion Group (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd; Wang Dusen, Creative Director of Golith Group and General Manager of International Brand Business Group; Fang Jianfu, President of Macao International Fashion Federation and Executive Chairman of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Smart Fashion Promotion Association; Alexandre Berger, a French senior plate maker and a senior lecturer of ESMOD Guangzhou French Institute of Fashion Design; Arianna Ariel Sorini, the fashion designer of Italian Designers Association, the fashion design professional tutor of Italian Marangoni College, and the founder and designer of WHY NOT Ariel brand, served as the judges of the competition.

Wu Haiyan, who has served as the judge of the competition for many times, saw the strong rise of the design level of the contestants in this competition, and they have international design standards. "The players have mastered the oriental art with ease, and have penetrated the core of design. From traditional technology to technology integration, they have done a very good job."

Wu Haiyan is very positive about the personality expression of the contestants in the design, and thinks that it represents the self style with designer characteristics, represents the different groups gathered in the competition, and shows that "Big Wave Cup" is a model of the superb narrative ability of the oriental culture.

Wang Dusen felt the same way. He thought that the contestants had a deep feeling about the "meta universe" and their works were quite bright, especially the combination of two sets of creative works and two sets of commercial works stipulated in the competition, which actively guided designers to pay attention to the market and understand the market.

"Nearly half of the works can go directly into the business sector and create market value." Wang Dusen praised the players' capture of young consumers' psychology, and hoped that the "Big Wave Cup" competition would continue to rise to the forefront in the future.

Alexandre Berger, who has worked hard in the plate type field, not only pays attention to the designer's understanding of the silhouette, but also notes that many works are full of highlights in fabric reconstruction and new technology. Both the ever-changing embroidery techniques and the ingenious jacquard craft show the exquisite design insight of the contestants.

In the end, contestant Huang Siyun won the "Golden Wave Award" (gold award) of 200000 yuan with his work "Free Poetics", Liu Shuqin won the "Wave Award" (silver award) of 150000 yuan with his work "PLAY", and Tan Kai won the "Wave Award" (copper award) of 100000 yuan with his work "Yuan · Jie".

At the moment of the birth of the grand prize, the winners were filled with emotion. This is an honor that comes from the preliminary evaluation of the contest, the promotion of the special training camp and the breakthrough in the final. The gold content of the "Big Wave Cup" award is obvious to all. In addition to high bonuses, the three winners will also participate in the "Dalang Cup Digital Collection Plan" and win the award for forging popular virtual goods in the digital economy era.

　　 ▲ Sun Ruizhe (first from the left), president of the International Textile Federation and China Textile Industry Federation, and Pei Lei (first from the right), deputy director of the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress, presented awards to the "Golden Wave Award" contestants

　　 ▲ Chen Dapeng (first from the left), Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation and President of China National Garment Association, and Zhang Hua (first from the right), Vice Mayor of Shenzhen Municipal Government, presented awards to the "Wave Award" contestants

　 ▲ Dong Qingsong (first from the right), General Manager of China Textile Press Co., Ltd., Wu Yihuan (first from the left), Vice Chairman of the CPPCC Shenzhen Municipal Committee, Hu Yun (second from the right), Deputy Secretary General of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee

Song Zuyao, Zhou Jiayi, Jiang Shanzi, Lan Jinjin, Chen Qianyu, Hu Yaning, Liao Huixin, Shi Yueyang, Qiu Zhenwei, and Dang Xingxing, the winners of the "Wave Award", respectively, rely on their works Zhuang Shengmengdie, Liberty ME, Samsung Accompanying Moon, READY TO GO, Unlimited Explorer, Word Game, Yuanjing Bamboo Dream "Fantastic Utopia", "How Monsters Were Born", "When the Window Manage the Cloud Hair" won the award of excellence in the competition.

　　 ▲ Zhou Yiqi (second from the right), Vice Chairman of China Fashion Designers Association, and Lei Weihua (first from the right), Deputy Secretary of Longhua District Party Committee and District Chief of Shenzhen, presented awards to the excellent award winners

　　 ▲ Li Bo (first from the right), Deputy Director of China Textile Information Center, and Zheng Xuan (first from the left), First level Investigator of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, presented awards to the winners

　　 ▲ Li Xin, Deputy Secretary General of China National Garment Association and Director of the Cooperation Department (first from the right), Pi Yonghua, Deputy Secretary of the Longhua District Committee of the CPC and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (first from the left), presented awards to the excellent award winners

In the awarding segment, the "Online Voting Award" of the 12th "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition was announced together with many awards. The contest launched the "Online Voting Award" activity at the official "Big Wave Cup" dithering and the video number of Big Wave Fashion Town. The public will vote their favorite works according to the players' production videos and praise their best works. The event attracted more than 1.7 million visitors. The contestants Cai Xiaojuan and Wu Chengmian won the "Online Voting Award" with 14648 likes for their work Biochemical "Crisis".

　　 ▲ Liu Xiaoqing (first from the right), Deputy Director of the Industry Department of China National Garment Association, Chief Editor of China National Garment magazine, Director of the Organizing Committee of the "Dalang Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition, and Huang Limin (first from the left), Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Longhua District Committee and Head of the Publicity Department, presented awards to the "Online Voting Award" contestants

Empowering Chinese fashion designers and the development of Chinese original design. The "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Contest is a "lookout" for young designers to understand China's clothing industry, and a big stage for the public to pay attention to China's original designers. Let more people see the power of Chinese original design, which is the original intention of the competition to set sail; "Let the competition go beyond the competition", which is the phased achievement of the development of the competition, but also the motivation and goal of moving forward and creating a new starting point. Stand up against the wind and move forward with waves. This hot land will continue to witness the rise of more young designers, break the cocoon into a butterfly, and realize their dreams!

　　 Winners of the 12th "Big Wave Cup" China Women's Wear Design Competition:

"Golden Wave Award" (Golden Award)

Xiaoyao Poetics by Huang Siyun

"Inspur Award" (silver award)

Liu Shuenthalpy PLAY

"Spray Award" (Bronze Award)

Yuan · Jie by Tan Kai

Online Voting Award

Biochemical "Crisis" by Cai Xiaojuan and Wu Chengmian

Excellence Award

Zhuang Sheng Dreams of Butterflies by Song Zuyao

Zhou Jiayi's Free ME

Three Stars Accompanying the Moon by Jiang Shanzi

Lan Jinjin's READY TO GO

Unlimited Explorer by Chen Qianyu

Text Game by Hu Yaning

Liao Huixin's "Yuanjing · Bamboo Dream"

Shi Yueyang's Ecstasy Utopia

Qiu Zhenwei, How Monsters Were Born

Party Xingxing's "Managing Cloud Hair by Window"

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