On April 1, the 11th "Emerging Donghua · Intelligent New Language" was showcased on the AW2026 Shanghai Fashion Week "THE NEXT New Forces" graduation project release platform.
The 2026 "Emerging Donghua · Intelligent New Language" proposes: Break free from conventions and habits, break creative boundaries with the power of the intelligent era, and elevate individual aesthetics, emotions, and spiritual aspirations to the ultimate through technological empowerment. "Cutting-edge" designers uphold the principles of "self-origin, clothing as the carrier, innovation as strategy," using cross-industry collaboration as the blade and intelligence as the bridge, forging technology and art, inheritance and breakthroughs, rationality and absurdity, interpreting the "new" of fashion through avant-garde design, and defining the future direction of Chinese youth fashion with unstoppable momentum.
Sun Jie, Dean of the School of Fashion and Art Design at Donghua University, mentioned that Shanghai Fashion Week is an important platform for cultivating emerging design talents and empowering the development of China's fashion industry. Currently, Donghua University has partnered with the Royal College of Art in the UK to jointly build the "Royal College of Art Shanghai Centre," broadening the international horizons of emerging designers. In the future, the School of Fashion and Art Design will continue to strengthen deep collaboration with the global fashion industry, building "Emerging Donghua" into an international platform that gathers top design talents worldwide, continuously empowering the de