During this year’s World Design Cities Conference (WDCC) WWD is proudly launching its inaugural SHANGHAI GALA.
The World Design Cities Conference 2023 (WDCC2023), hosted by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and National Commission of the People’s Republic of China for UNESCO, will be held in Shanghai from September 26 to October 2.
The event, which just appointed Chinese actor and singer Jackson Yee as Youth Ambassador for WDCC2023, will cover multiple activities revolving around its global theme “New Vision of Design” with the SHANGHAI GALA to be one of the highlights of this year.
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Fashion and design are in the midst of a new wave of transformation, while classic design echoes with the times. In the evolution of the times, design is linking more closely with the social reality and dynamics with the fashion is constantly flowing between the classic and the cutting-edge designs.
In the 21st century, when new lifestyle is emerging, WWD CHINA will hold the first SHANGHAI GALA with the theme of ‘NEW VISION OF DESIGN’ to pay tribute to every industrial giant who has been working hard in the field of fashion design, and to every great enterprise that deserves to be praised in the year 2023, when fluctuations and great changes coexist. This is a grand event that surpasses the historical cycle and links the fashion worlds of China and the West. On behalf of Shanghai, we extend a sincere invitation to the world on 28th September.
From 2019-2023, WWD CHINA persisted its exploration in China and linked the global markets, adhering to the three strategic dimensions of culture, science and technology, and sustainability. We aimed to recover the essence of fashion business and help Chinese fashion enterprises’ debut and operation on the international fashion stage.
As WWD CHINA enters its fifth year, we base ourselves on Shanghai, the important window of Chinese fashion to the world, and gather designers and creators from all over the world with SHANGHAI GALA, to build a fashion highland to look into the future, so that every talented fashionistas and every enterprise heading for greatness will have the ability to see the future.
At this year’s SHANGHAI GALA, WWD CHINA will hold a legendary fashion exhibition in China that traverses a century of fashion under the global vision. With “Tribute to Classics”, “Appreciation of Contemporary” and “Design for the Future” as the lines, the exhibition will run through the WWD century-long gallery of the era’s classic designs, and present the unchanging cycle of newness and birth from the refinement of classics, evolution of the times and outlining of the future. With “culture”, “sustainability”, and “science and technology” as the latitudinal lines, it will present the thinking about the fashion industry, and showcase the proud power of the new designs in the industry.
This exhibition specially invites renowned art curator, critic, designer, design educator and writer Professor Su Dan, Doctor of Art Theory of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, curator, critic, research librarian, and Deputy Director of the Exhibition Department of the National Art Museum of China Professor Liu Chunfeng to serve as the curator of this exhibition. With the vision of their professional art and design disciplines, they look at the contemporary fashion industry to explain how it will transcend the borders, traverse the cycle, and catalyse the birth of a new generation of aesthetics and a new social civilization in the inheritance of generations.
Bicester, a company focusing on sustainable design and development, exploration of sustainable future together with MoldBreaking, a company focusing on BEAUTY brands going Overseas.We provide one-stop solutions of “brand strategy – digital marketing – omnichannel development” for brands going abroad, especially Japanese mass market will participate in the exhibition.The Macallan, with the newly launched The Macallan Litha, an incomparable highland single malt Sctoch whisky, bringing more glamour spark to this dazzling night. At the same time, sincere gratitude goes to Xiaohongshu for its strong support.
WWD CHINA will announce the WWD HONORS Achievers at this year’s SHANGHAI GALA, focusing on China’s new designers prospering on the international stage and fashion enterprises expanding their global brand ecology and industrial chain. With ‘cultural connotation’, ‘sustainable fashion’, ‘technological empowerment’, ‘new business pattern’ and ‘product innovation’ as comprehensive dimensions, the award will recognize their outstanding contributions to the upgrading of the international influence of China’s fashion industry.
At the same time, WWD CHINA will join hands with its strategic partners to launch the Brand Power Program fashion industry incubator and ‘New and Power of NEXT Program Fashion’, which will provide comprehensive and accurate support for the new generation of China’s fashion industry, the strategic expansion of young brands or designers, and the brand value building.
A Magical Journey of New Vision: Support of the Legendary Maye Musk
In this unprecedented journey with the theme of ‘NEW VISION OF DESIGN’, WWD CHINA invited Maye Musk – a legendary woman in the fashion industry, to be the SHANGHAI GALA International Ambassador.
After 60 years of modelling, Maye Musk has redefined her career, and with her silver hair, she still shines in front of the camera and on the runway, shattering stereotypes of beauty. For her, yesterday’s glamour is not as important as tomorrow’s new path. Maye Musk will bring her rich experience and insight into the newness and power of fashion to light up SHANGHAI GALA.
On 28th September, at the first SHANG GALA, we invite you to link the Chinese and Western fashion worlds together with WWD CHINA. With joining hands, we will look back at the classics to better explore the new design and vision in the future.