Recently, the Innovative Fashion Design Team of Fashion • Art Design Institute led by the Associate Professor Zhou Honglei attended the World of WearableArt (WOW) in New Zealand, and met Mr. Wang Lutong, the Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand. This is the seventh time for Fashion • Art Design Institute to send students to participate in the WOW since it ended with one-two win in 2012. Every year, many of the Institute’s students’ works were selected as the finalists and the quantity and level of awards ranked first among the fashion design institutions worldwide.
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Zhou Honglei introduced Mr. Wang Lutong the innovative fashion design at DHU
Zhou Honglei introduced Mr. Wang Lutong the reform in innovative fashion design teaching made by DHU and the situations about the students participating in the WOW in recent years. Mr. Wang Lutong fully affirmed the favorable achievements made by DHU in teaching of innovative fashion design as well as international competitions. He also encouraged DHU’s young designers to improve the concept of innovative fashion design, winner honors for the motherland.
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Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Lutong and Cultural Counsellor Shen Ming
met teachers and students from Fashion • Art Design Institute
The World of WearableArt was born in 1987 when the sculptor Suzie Moncrieff had an idea to promote a rural art gallery, taking art off the wall and wearing it on to the stage, thereby creating a new genre of performance. Best described as a glorious rebellion against the mundane, the World of WearableArt is held in Wellington between the end of September and early October every year and has been an annual international event for the circle of innovative fashion.