25 years is only a fleeting moment in the long history, but China's textile industry has experienced a huge leap across the century. 25 years ago, "cotton spinning ingot" opened the prelude to the reform of textile state-owned enterprises, and the private economy entered the main position of industrial development, taking design as productivity and fabrics as a breakthrough, and textile thus entered a new journey to a big country and a powerful country. Born and growing in this period of time, China International Fabric Design Competition, planting industry, intensive cultivation, with hundreds of thousands of "China popular fabric" ingenuity, tells the story of the time of Chinese design innovation, tells the story of "do not forget the original intention of the industry to serve the country, bear in mind the mission of strengthening the country and enriching the people" textile feelings.
In 2023, the China International Fabric Design Competition ushered in the 25th anniversary, and the "Chinese popular fabric Shortlist Review" entered the glorious moment of the 50th session. On August 28, at the Autumn exhibition of China Textile Association, the world's largest textile professional exhibition, the 2023 China International Fabric Design Competition award ceremony once again pushed Chinese textile fabric design to the world stage of the industry's attention. "I'm Little RONG, do you remember me?" The stunning opening by digital host RONG made the contest, which has gone from the industrial age to the digital age, feel more futuristic and technological.
Design is the power to change the world
"Design is man's most powerful tool for shaping the environment. Design for a better world, design for people's lives, design is the power to change the world, is the responsibility to create a better world." Sun Ruizhe, president of the China Textile Industry Federation, pointed out in his speech that as a key part of productivity improvement, fabric design contains cultural value, aesthetic value, integration of technical value and ecological value, creating commercial value and social value, and is a source of vitality to inspire creativity, build an innovation chain, innovate production methods, and improve product quality. China's textile fabric design holds the power of the industry, sets the wisdom of enterprises, helps the textile industry to stand in the top of the world's powerful countries with independent innovation, and rises in the forest of the world's nations with cultural confidence.
Since it was held in 1999, the China International Fabric Competition has attracted more than a thousand innovative and excellent textile enterprises at home and abroad every year, and nearly 10,000 varieties have participated in the evaluation, and has been hot for many years, repeatedly reaching new highs. With the deepening of the accumulation of the 50th event, the continuous extension of the boundary of the field and the continuous increase of industrial interconnection, China's popular fabric has long been transformed from an independent piece of work into an important part of the upstream industry, and has entered the supply chain system of brand enterprises to grow together with it, and constantly bring innovative solutions to promote the high-quality development of the industry. To enhance the competitiveness of Chinese textile product design has brought more certainty to the development of the fashion industry. As President Sun Ruizhe said, "Over the past 25 years, Fabrics China has built a collaborative product development system with integrated innovation in the industrial chain. The fabric design competition takes" Fabrics China "as a link to promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial clusters and textile enterprises, and comprehensively enhance technological innovation, fashion leadership and green competitiveness."
The award ceremony was full of high-profile guests
"25 years of gathering strength into a potential, 50 years of talents, the competition has built a new stage." Cultivate, lead and achieve talents, build a highland of wisdom, and a batch of excellent textile fabric designers stand out from here, providing a solid support for the construction of a modern textile industrial system." At the award ceremony, the competition awarded 36 awards such as the annual gold, silver and bronze awards, and the designer representatives of the winning enterprises became the focus of the scene.
Design is the responsibility to create beauty
"25 years of deep cultivation, 50 rounds of specialization, the competition built a new foundation." Promote innovation from multiple dimensions of materials, processes, functionality and digitalization, promote the establishment of enterprise product development management system, and consolidate the supply capacity of variety renewal, quality improvement and brand forging."
Along the way, the competition has witnessed the great progress of new technologies, new processes and new designs in China's textile industry, and has always advocated the whole life cycle management of products based on green design responsibility, constantly injecting new development momentum for the construction of sustainable fashion. In 2023, the products participating in the competition not only hit a record high in number, but also performed brilliantly in many aspects such as science and technology, quality, and environmental protection. The development of textile products emphasizes the application of new materials, new technologies and new processes. For example, functional fibers, high-performance fibers, ecological fibers gradually expand the application; Functional environmental protection products become the focus of innovation; Digital technology has been widely used in the field of fabric design.
The design and quality of the winning products are both inside and outside, and they have become a particularly bright star exhibit at the exhibition. For example, the gold award winning product "Wizard of Oz" uses high-precision digital printing technology and no-wash printing and dyeing technology, so that the fabric has excellent resilience, easy protection and antibacterial property; The winning product of the "Best Ecological and Environmental Protection Award" "Back to Nature" is blended with environmental adhesive and antibacterial fiber, combined with natural plant dyeing, and finished with bio-based soft finishing technology, which has good antibacterial property; Nylon Product Development and Application Award winning product "Yuzhong Dream" uses high fastness ink dedicated to green environmental protection functional nylon to present a delicate and soft feather pattern with high color reproduction.
Design is the key to the future
"With 25 years of trend leading and 50 seasons of trend looking forward, the competition has delivered a new context." Based on the fashion trend research and publication system, the competition carried out a systematic transmission and value dissemination for constructing the right to speak in Chinese fashion on the international stage such as intertextile surface Accessories Exhibition. It can be seen from the exhibition area of award-winning products in the competition that in terms of fashion innovation, Chinese fabric enterprises take market demand and fashion trend as the guidance of product development, highlight Chinese characteristics with original design, and constantly improve the added value of products from the aspects of appearance, texture, color, etc., and the fashion trend of Chinese textile fabrics has played an important role in guiding, leading and forward-looking.
The appearance of the digital virtual person RONG opens a new digital horizon for the audience between virtual and real interaction, and also lets people see the great change and rapid growth of the competition from 0 to 1 in the past 25 years. "Looking at the future of the competition, I believe it must be the future of digital empowerment, and the future of design to create value growth." Li Lei, Director of Creative Design Department of China Textile Information Center and co-host of RONG, could not help feeling.
In recent years, the competition has adapted to the change of digital technology, promoted the innovative practice of digital technology in product development, and is committed to helping enterprises cultivate a new generation of digital productivity. Relying on rich event data resources and product application scenarios, the competition transformed the winning products into 3D digital fabrics and digital clothing, and cooperated with Fujian Yongrong Jinjiang Co., LTD to create digital RONG, which made a valuable and beneficial attempt to explore the transformation and upgrading of digital intelligent design enabling industry.
Design is the engine of fashion
Innovation synergy, wisdom synergy and resource synergy. Over the years, the China International Fabric Competition has further deepened the evaluation system from the aspects of competition system setting, standards and norms, and evaluation rules, and urged enterprises to build a textile new product development management system based on fabric design, which has brought more innovative solutions to promote the new industrialization under the industrial context in the new era.
"25 years of golden age, 50 degrees of wind and rain, the contest has witnessed a new era." After the great leap of the textile industry across the century, it has grown with The Times in the great changes not seen in a century, in the new round of scientific and technological change, and has been brilliant with The Times in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Facing the future, the original intention of the competition is still to gather the strength of industrial innovation, with creative design as the core, scientific and technological innovation as the support, excellent culture as the guidance, and sustainable development as the guidance, to promote the construction of Chinese design, Chinese creation of new value and new discourse.
"25 years old, in the prime of life; 50th, carry on the past and open the future." The contest will be as President Sun Ruizhe expected: Mind the world, keep the right innovation, relying on the credibility and appeal of the industry innovation platform, connect the traditional and contemporary, China and the world, life and ecology, attentively tell the story of Chinese design innovation, with hot faith and persistent action, go to the "world fashion source" beautiful dream, write a more brilliant tomorrow of China's textile industry.
(Source: China Textile Economic Information Network)