With expectations and expectations, how can we firmly grasp the infinite possibilities of the future? How can we glimpse the broader new world of Chinese fashion in the beautiful intention of all things flourishing and flourishing?
It has gone through the vast embryonic period, exploration period, explosive period, fission period... In the past year, technology + sustainability has presented countless possibilities for Chinese fashion. In 2023, technology + sustainability will be the light that illuminates the good intentions of Chinese fashion in the Year of the Rabbit.
As the world's largest textile exporter and the world's largest fashion consumer market, China is not only the most important link in the global fashion industry supply chain, but also a fertile ground for sustainable and technological innovation.
More responsible consumption, more conscious ecological protection, more equal social relations... China's change in the field of sustainable fashion has led to the world's greatest force for change. While the consciousness changes and subverts the existing business model, more enterprises with innovative power also deliver momentum to China's fashion industry through scientific and technological innovation, providing a steady stream of driving force for further innovation and development and value creation.
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"The Times Are Blooming| Innovation 3.0"
In the series of special topics, the sustainable development and technological innovation of China's fashion industry in the past century were reviewed. "Accumulation of hair" - in the coming year of the rabbit, we are full of expectations for what surprises the Chinese fashion industry will bring to the world.
Persistent "keys"
Open up a new world of China's fashion industry
In the process of sustainable development transformation, China's fashion industry has accelerated its pace, joined the green industrial revolution and green development competition, and gradually become a co-builder of a new pattern of global fashion production and consumption.
With the continuous strengthening and strong support of national policies for sustainable development, especially the emphasis on sustainable development in the 14th Five-Year Plan and the long-term goals for 2035, promoting sustainable development has become the mainstream direction of China's fashion industry. From the establishment of the textile industry in New China to the opening of a new chapter in the reform and opening up of China's textile industry, to the construction of China's first social responsibility management system in the millennium textile industry, China's fashion industry is gradually realizing efficient, clean, low-carbon and recyclable development.
Erdos Spring/Summer 2021 collection
While paying attention to the development of the supply chain, China's fashion industry is also building a whole industrial chain covering product design and development, supply chain, to recycling. More and more Chinese apparel and fashion companies have been actively promoting responsible production and consumption for ten years, paying attention to the research and development of environmentally friendly materials and ecological protection, while conveying the concept of sustainable fashion to the public. As a result, the voice of Chinese fashion brands and enterprises in the international market has been further enhanced.
Feng Chen Wang Fall/Winter 2023 collection
The transformation of the fashion industry started by technological innovation
Technology is not only the strategic key to the key arena, but also the key to "breaking the problem" for Chinese fashion to achieve echelon leaps on the international stage.
As the world's largest garment consumer and producer, China also has the world's largest, most complete textile industry chain, and is in the process of upgrading and transformation. In the past two years of great changes, China's fashion consumer market and the entire fashion industry have achieved remarkable growth and recovery by actively embracing change and innovation. In the process of achieving this result, domestic fashion practitioners have gradually realized that scientific and technological innovation is the driving force for creating new thinking, new models and new channels.
Peelsphere uses bio-based materials made from fruit scraps
With the spirit of innovation, digitalization-driven business model and consumer-oriented business ideas, China's clothing industry chain has changed from "follower" to "leader", the material and technological innovation brought by scientific and technological innovation, the industrial upgrading and transformation promoted, the underlying logic of China's fashion industry is reconstructed, not only makes China's fashion industry change its role, has a pivotal position in the global fashion supply chain, but also changes the expression and consumption mode of fashion. It has brought more surprises to global fashion consumers.
Xtep previously launched eco-friendly clothing made with 100% polylactic acid
In the warm winter sun, the Year of the Rabbit has arrived. Accumulation, innovation, reconstruction... It remains to be seen how China's fashion industry, which is undergoing a new round of deep transformation and development, will practice the goal of "innovation-driven technology industry, culture-led fashion industry and responsibility-oriented green industry" in this double spring year, advance towards a new positioning, and leave a wonderful mark in the history of the global fashion industry. WWD