NEW YORK, Sept. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ICN TV
Network is proud to announce the launch of the first Chinese
Qipao Festival, a series of events, each of which celebrates,
in unique fashion, the beauty of the qipao and importance of
Chinese culture heritage. The three events take place on
September 10th,
19th and 26th.
The qipao (or cheongsam), the popular traditional
one-piece dress worn today by Chinese women attending formal
events, has a long history, dating back nearly 500 years to the
1600s of the Qing dynasty, when a loose-fitting version was worn as
everyday clothing by men and women alike. The stylish and
often tight-fitting qipao that is best known today was created in
the 1920s in Shanghai and made
fashionable by socialites and upper class women of that era.
The Chinese Qipao Festival is hosted and sponsored by ICN TV
Network, Beauty Media Inc., YouKu Inc. and the
China Intercontinental Communication Center. The festival
consists of three events:
Qipao Flash Mob in Times Square
Date:
Sep. 10th
Location: Times Square
A flash mob of one hundred Chinese women, accompanied by
finalists from the Qipao Beauty Pageant and a delegation of foreign
students from New York Film Academy, each dressed in a qipao
of unique design, will make an appearance at Times Square.
The focus of the event and presentation is to give New Yorkers and
visitors to Times Square an opportunity to learn more about Chinese
traditional costume and Eastern artistic vision.
The Qipao Beauty Pageant
Date: Sep. 19th
Time: 4:00PM – 6:30PM
Location: Broad Street Ballroom
The Qipao Beauty Pageant Contest has been attracting the
attention of Chinese fashion models not only in the New York area but also from around the globe.
This prominent event has currently gone through the initial and
semi-final rounds. Through blind auditions, the contestants will be
divided into five teams, each team led by an experienced and
talented mentor or coach. The coach will work with each contestant
to perfect their performance. At the event, the 50 finalists will
enter the last round of the competition for the coveted winning
title.
The Qipao Gala
Date: Sep. 26th
Time: 6:00PM – 10:00PM
Location: Gotham Hall
One of the highlights of Qipao Festival is the Qipao Gala that
will be held on the eve of the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn
holiday. Celebrities and distinguished guests representing a
cross-section of disciplines across the fashion industry, among
them renowned fashion icon and successful entrepreneur Yue-Sai Kan
and topflight Chinese model Ai-Li. The entire event will be
videotaped and broadcast throughout China and to Chinese-speaking communities
worldwide through Youku.com, the world's leading Chinese-language
video-sharing website.
About the Sponsors
ICN TV Network – Founded as
International Audio-Visual Communication Inc. in 1980 and renamed
ICN in 2010, the media firm has extensive television coverage
throughout the whole of North
America and is the media organization serving ethnic Chinese
communities across the region with the largest audience and
broadest reach. ICN's 16 channels with large footprints in
Austin, Dallas, Houston, Los
Angeles, New York,
San Francisco, Seattle in the U.S.A. as well as Toronto and Vancouver in Canada. Its English and Chinese channels
broadcast a wide variety of programming including real-time news,
entertainment, drama, education and culture as well as talk shows
focused on current affairs, business and investment.
Beauty Media – Established in 1994, Beauty Media is a Chinese
cultural media enterprise specializing in broadcasting, cinema and
television production, audio-visual programming, creative animation
and derivative products, as well as other forms of cultural
media.
YouKu Inc. – Youku Tudou Inc. is China's leading Internet TV company. The
company's mission is to become the primary source of video content
and to build a media and entertainment ecosystem for global Chinese
audiences over a multi-screen platform. The company shares a wide
mix of user generated, partner-generated, proprietary and licensed
professional content as well as movies with its user base,
providing a wide selection of compelling entertainment. In 2010,
YouKu, Inc. became the first China-based Internet TV firm to list on the
NYSE.
China Intercontinental Communication Center – The China
Intercontinental Communication Center (China Intercontinental
Press), set up in Beijing in
December 1993, is a comprehensive
international cultural communication agency complete with four
export-oriented communication centers, including the Film and TV
Center, the Book Center, the Cultural Exchange Center and the
Network Center. The Center/Press has established cooperative
relationships with 40-plus TV organizations in more than 20
countries, and with over 30 publishing houses in 19 countries and
regions around the world. It has also carried out cultural
activities in some 40 countries and regions and succeeded in
bringing Chinese movies and TV plays as well as books to more than
200 countries and regions.
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