25th Hong Kong Fashion Week to focus on corporate fashion

29 Jun '18

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Courtesy: HKTDC

More than 1,100 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions will participate in the 25^th Hong Kong Fashion Week will focus on corporate fashion and technology. On the theme ‘Happy Collage’, the fashion week will kick-start from July 9. The event will throw light on heat-generating wearables, intelligent 3D human modelling and standard sizing for fashion.

The Corporate Fashion and Uniforms zone makes its debut this year at the fashion event by Hong Kong Trade Development Council. The World of Fashion Accessories zone also returns as a signature attraction featuring the best in bags, trinkets, belts, footwear, socks and leggings, gloves, scarves and much more.

The Fashion Tech and Trade Services zone is a special highlight this year, featuring an innovative application for a new technology for monitoring the quality control of garments, and an exciting virtual fitting app. There will also be newly developed fabrics that glow and change colour, as well as Konica Minolta’s state-of-the-art garment printer.

There will be presentations and seminars on latest market trends including an insight by international trend forecasting group Fashion Snoops, when it will unveil its autumn/winter 2019/20 fashion forecasts. Other topics include Online Shopping Reshapes the Fashion Industry and ‘Essential Certifications and Ratings for Textiles and Garments’, with the latter shedding lights on the material requirements of green textiles, and the testing requirements of textile chemicals.

Students from the School of Continuing and Professional Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Centre will showcase their latest collections at various fashion shows in the four-day programme. (RR)

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