Hangzhou's fashion industry is closely linked to its cultural foundation. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, many of the city's streets have been noted as cultural and artistic gathering places. During the Qing Dynasty, Hangzhou prospered due to the constant influx of merchants to the city. The Southern Song Imperial Street and Hefang Street are a testament to Hangzhou's thriving business format and cultural accumulation...
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Hangzhou is the Capital of Silk. Hangzhou's silk culture has a long history and tradition. Hangzhou's silk products are known for their fine workmanship and high quality. Silk has become a prominent representative of Hangzhou's fashion culture.
Wensli
Wensli was founded in Hangzhou in 1975 and has been focusing on silk and silk product production for 48 years. It uses only high-quality silk as raw material, and its products cover four categories: silk scarves, silk household products, silk cultural and creative products, and silk printed fabrics.
Du Jinsheng
After nearly a hundred years of inheritance, innovation, and development, Du Jinsheng brocade has become the representative of Hangzhou silk with great national style and strong Chinese characteristics. It is known as the "Flower of Oriental Art".
Hangzhou is known for its rich traditional crafts, such as Hangzhou Embroidery, Papercutting and Hangzhou Brocade. These traditional crafts have often been applied and innovated in Hangzhou's fashion design, which blends tradition with modernity and demonstrates unique beauty and innovation.
Hangzhou Embroidery
Hangzhou Embroidery originated from guige (boudoir) embroidery and was named after Lin’an (now Hangzhou), the capital city of the Southern Song Dynasty, where it flourished. It was also developed in Ningbo, Jinhua, and other surrounding areas, and then gradually evolved into folk embroidery. Hangzhou Embroidery is extremely elaborate and is a Jiangnan art decoration of high value.
Hangzhou Papercutting
With a piece of paper and a pair of scissors, China's rapid development is shown on paper cutouts in the deft hands of paper-cutting artisans. As an intangible cultural heritage, papercutting has a deep relationship with Hangzhou.
Hangzhou Brocade
Hangzhou has long been known as the Capital of Silk and the history of Hangzhou Brocade can be traced back to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period when Qiu Liu, the king of Wuyue State, established an official silk workshop "Weaving House" in Hangzhou.
Hangzhou hosts fashion events every year, attracting many fashion brands, designers and enthusiasts. The fashion events showcase the latest fashion trends and design concepts, and advance the development and exchange of Hangzhou's fashion culture.
Zhejiang International Fashion Week
Zhejiang International Fashion Week (previously known as Hangzhou International Fashion Week) has been successfully held 14 times since 2014. It has already developed into the largest fashion event in Zhejiang Province.
Hempel Award
The "Hempel Award" International Young Fashion Designers Contest has been held consecutively for 31 years now. The contest is one of the longest-running international fashion design contests in China.
Hangzhou is home to many fashion industrial parks, which bring together a large number of fashion brands, design institutes, and innovative enterprises. These industrial parks have provided fertile ground for the development of Hangzhou's fashion industry and contributed to the prosperity of the city's fashion culture.
