HANGZHOU, China, Jan. 23,
2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The China National Silk Museum in
Hangzhou will hold an exhibition
on January 23 entitled Splendid
Decade: Fashion China 2011-2020, featuring hundreds of China's contemporary fashion garment
masterpieces, sponsored by the China Fashion Association, Fabrics
China and organized by the China National Silk Museum.
The exhibition - held annually since 2011 - showcases
representative Chinese fashion designs selected throughout the
year. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, this year's Splendid
Decade: Fashion China 2011-2020 will present a collection
consisting of the most iconic examples of haute couture and
avant-garde ready-to-wear pieces drawn from over the last decade.
Creations on display during the exhibition will be from one hundred
of China's top fashion designers
including Wu
Haiyan, Mark Cheung, Guo Pei,
Lawrence Xu and Xiong Ying as well as innovative fabric products
provided by 40 domestic textile enterprises.
Dr. Zhao Feng, Director of China
National Silk Museum, believes fashion museums are a significant
part of the whole fashion ecosystem. He noted, "A museum should be
regarded as a hall for clothing culture as well as a classroom for
fashion design education. Classic items of clothing, which indicate
special characteristics of periods of time and technology, are
ideal objects for museum collection."
The displays will give visitors an instant insight into the
creativity of the contemporary Chinese fashion industry.
Expressions from traditional cultural resources to trending fashion
concepts such as digitalization and sustainability can be found in
the designs. According to Dr. Zhao, the National Silk Museum has
accumulated a massive collection of almost 70,000 clothing and
fashion objects from all over the world, which grants it the honor
of being China's largest textile
and clothing themed museum, putting it deservedly among the
heavyweights of the silk textiles and clothing industry.
Since 2011, implementing the idea of "collecting today for
tomorrow," the National Silk Museum has been putting great efforts
into improving its collection by carefully screening outstanding
designs and products from China's
renowned fashion events every year with the purpose of recording
the nation's development process in the field of textile and
fashion.
Aside from the laborious work of selecting, collecting,
organizing and researching, the museum organizes annual
exhibitions, fashion forums and shows themed around prevailing
fashion trends. The museum also brings famous apparel collections
from overseas museums every year to introduce the diversity of
aesthetic and cultural traditions. Latest examples include: Dior by
Dior: 1947-1957, introduced from the Royal Ontario Museum in
Canada in 2019, and Balenciaga:
Shaping Fashion, introduced from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2020.
Furthermore, China National Silk Museum is committed to
promoting Chinese clothing culture overseas by organizing annual
international exhibitions for qipao/cheongsam designs since
2018, over 100 designers from 24 countries/regions have
been invited. The museum hopes to become a hall of inspiration for
fashion designers, an academy for fashion lovers, and a fashion
museum with increased international influence.
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