On April 1, the youngest fashion force from Donghua University in Shanghai, "Emerging Designers from Donghua", made a wonderful appearance at 800 Show in Jing'an for this Shanghai Fashion Week. Liu Chenggong, the Party secretary, Liu Shuhui and Chen Ge, the vice presidents, attended the event.
This year marks the ninth consecutive year of College of Fashion and Design's collaboration with THE NEXT, a university-based fashion show platform, in the "Emerging Designers" training program. The event took place at the Shanghai Fashion Week (800 Show in Jing'an) and featured 10 new designers from three different departments: Fashion Art Design, Fashion Design and Engineering, and Sino-Japanese Cooperation Project. Each designer expressed their unique and innovative ideas about individualized fashion. The event showcased 60 sets of original and innovative concept clothing, with designers incorporating cutting-edge fashion trends, new technologies, and new techniques. They also demonstrated their social responsibility and forward-looking vision in areas such as sustainable fashion, green environmental protection, non-heritage innovation, and digital artificial intelligence. The gold medalist of the event will represent the University at the Graduate Fashion Week in London. And this event has witnessed the brilliant debut and exciting journey of these emerging designers.
The "Donghua Emerging Designer" Talent Development Program is a special program established by the College of Fashion and Design to cultivate comprehensive and innovative design talents, combining the comprehensive reform of the outstanding design major and the cultivation of outstanding engineers by the Ministry of Education. The College of Fashion and Design has always been committed to the cultivation of interdisciplinary and comprehensive fashion talents, integrating "international exchange, school-enterprise cooperation, and emerging talent development" into undergraduate education, continuously discovering new talents, providing professional platforms and opportunities for students, and creating an excellent team of young designers, thus enabling students to complete the perfect transformation from traditional academy style to fashion innovation.
