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The 2023 Taipei Fashion Week AW23 will be held from March 22nd to April 9th. The press conference before the show yesterday (7th) unveiled the innovative design of this season's cross-border modern fashion with Taiwan's traditional performing arts and traditional crafts, previewing the opening ceremony. The show will be moved to Tainan's "Nan Kun Yu Dai Tian Fu" for the first time on March 22. Immediately afterwards, there will be a "Sustainable Fashion" themed show and 12 brand shows at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei. In particular, this season will attract many cutting-edge brands, including Fuyue fuyue, ZEIT x CHOW des HOMME, John Zucca, etc. Both exhibited for the first time.
Take a look at the exciting works of Taipei Fashion Week 2023.
Minister of Culture Shi Zhe said, "Fashion is the key to the highest quality and value of the cultural and creative industry, and it is also the most important weapon for internationalization." Traditional temples, on the other hand, play the role of local cultural centers in Taiwanese society. Through worshiping the gods and gods, they developed visual arts such as portraits and wall decorations, as well as performing arts such as puppetry, opera, and shadow puppetry. This can be said to be the beginning of Taiwanese aesthetics. Taipei Fashion Week AW23 has chosen to cooperate with the Nankundai Tianfu, the temple of the prince of Taiwan, which has a history of more than 300 years, combining the power of a new generation of aesthetic designers with the traditional craftsmanship and temple aesthetics of the previous generation. , and practice the Taiwanese cultural connotation of "more local, more fashionable, more Taiwanese".
Minister of Culture Shi Zhe (back row 1 from left) attended the pre-show press conference of "2023 Taipei Fashion Week AW23" and admired the highlights of participating brands.
The Ministry of Culture pointed out that following the five major propositions of Taipei Fashion Week: sustainability, functionality, diversity, cross-border, and humanities, following the cross-border of contemporary visual art in 2021 and the cross-border of indigenous national treasures in 2022, the opening theme of Taipei Fashion Week this season The big show "Respecting Art: Traditional Performing Arts and Traditional Crafts Crossover Fashion" takes traditional art as the crossover subject, and for the first time went out of Taipei to Nankundai Tianfu, a national historic site and a nationally registered intangible cultural asset. With the temple gate as the background, combining traditional performances, performing arts and fashion catwalks, 7 designers and 7 traditional artists work together to transform the common culture of Bajiajiang, shadow puppetry, Gezai opera, and Taiwanese architectural paintings into 70 A masterpiece of costumes.
Taiwan is a melting pot of diverse cultures. This time, the opening show uses folk art to cross-border fashion design. The Ministry of Culture stated that it looks forward to integrating traditional cultural symbols into contemporary life through the process of interpretation, communication, and speculation. , contemporary design, reinterpreting the cultural content and traditional craftsmanship with strong identification, forming a new life proposition, and docking the international contemporary fashion stage with the rich, profound and diverse spirit of Taiwan's traditional folk art.
Artist Zeng Zhiqiao serves as the image ambassador of "2023 Taipei Fashion Week AW23", inviting everyone to appreciate a series of mysterious and wonderful new creations that contain Taiwanese traditional culture and exquisite craftsmanship.
In addition to the opening show, the "Sustainable Fashion" themed show at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park will also take advantage of the advantages of domestic functional textiles to interpret the core concept of "Sustainable Functional Fashion". Fabric cooperation, using materials such as CO₂ recycled materials including carbon capture technology, recycled polyester from marine waste, recycled plastic bottle fabrics, and recycled environmentally friendly cotton from factory waste, to propose Taiwanese fashion solutions for global sustainable issues.
Taipei Fashion Week AW23 this season has a total of one fashion crossover opening show, one sustainable fashion theme show, and 12 brand shows (including one New Breed new generation brand show composed of three new generation designers). Deputy Minister Li Lianquan emphasized the importance of cultivating fashion talents. This year's "Fashion Design School Exhibition" (inter-school exhibition) has increased from the previous 4 schools to 7 schools, and hopes that these new generations will become the vanguard of Taiwan's fashion industry in the future.
At the same time, in order to assist Taiwanese designer brands to expand domestic and foreign markets, this season, a "Taipei Fashion Week Selection Store" will be created in the Fuxing Hall of Far Eastern SOGO Department Store, where more than 40 Taiwanese designer brand products in different fields will be sold, and apparel will be handled. International buyer procurement fairs for fashion products, build an interactive platform for brands and the international fashion industry, and assist Taiwan brands to build marketing channels across regions and time differences.