Two-Day Countdown – Hong Kong Trend Fest kicks off a city-wide celebration of style, tradition and creativity
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HONG KONG, Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The extremely anticipated Hong Kong Trend Fest, working from 20 November to 4 December 2024, is about to take over town with an expansive programme celebrating style, creativity, and cultural heritage. Offered by the Authorities of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area, and sponsored by the Cultural and Artistic Industries Improvement Company of the Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism Bureau, the Hong Kong Trend Fest brings collectively style, design, and artistry in a outstanding lineup of occasions, exhibitions, and experiences all through town.
Commissioner for Cultural and Artistic Industries, Mr. Victor Tsang, shared his imaginative and prescient: “We’re thrilled to launch the Hong Kong Trend Fest, uniting Hong Kong’s varied style happenings underneath one vibrant competition on the worldwide style calendar. This endeavour displays our metropolis’s inventive vitality and its function as a bridge between regional and worldwide style.”
Highlights: The occasion lineup unveiled
The Trend Union – A Platform to Have fun the Fantastic thing about Workwear Opening Ceremony and Occasion Sequence
Launching on 20 November and working till 27 November in DX Design Hub in Sham Shui Po, the fashionable salute to workwear, “The Trend Union”, combines operate with aptitude, providing a lineup of exhibitions, workshops, and boards that flip standard workwear on its head. The sequence guarantees a contemporary take a look at the style facet of operate and daring takes on practicality, timeless types, and a celebration of workwear’s common attraction.
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VIRTUOSE: The Artistry of Couture and Couture Reverie
“VIRTUOSE: The Artistry of Couture”, the breathtaking celebration of couture on 25 November at The Henderson in Central will carry collectively 4 internationally acclaimed designers, every presenting their mastery of expertise within the style reveals. The “Couture Reverie” exhibition will happen from 27 November to 4 December at Store 6, New Henry Home, 10 Ice Home Road, Central. Coming from France, the place couture was originated, Charles de Vilmorin is understood for his daring, expressive embroidery and vibrant colors, creating couture items which might be as inventive as they’re avant-garde. Mohamed Benchellal from the Netherlands brings an architectural aptitude, with flowing silhouettes and complicated draping that replicate his Moroccan heritage. Representing the Mainland, Cheney Chan infuses conventional Chinese language parts with trendy Parisian aesthetics, producing clothes that juxtapose Jap and Western influences in distinctive concord. Hong Kong designer Kay Kwok presents a futuristic imaginative and prescient, utilising unconventional supplies and exact tailoring to create highly effective, otherworldly silhouettes. The occasion creates a beneficial alternative for guests to understand the distinctive craftsmanship of couture designers and to expertise the poetic narrative of style.
Trend Summit (HK) 2024
Themed “Energy Up Sustainable Trend Enterprise”, the “Trend Summit (HK) 2024” is scheduled for 26 November on the Hong Kong Palace Museum, that brings collectively trade leaders and visionaries to debate sustainable style enterprise fashions. One other spotlight can be the sequence of three style reveals. The Worldwide Trend Present themed “Time Traveler” that includes designers from 5 nations or areas shall be held on 27 November; the opposite two style reveals themed “Seize the Time” to function Hong Kong younger style designers and “Native Energy” to showcase Hong Kong style manufacturers respectively shall be held on 28 November. As well as, the first-time “Trend Summit Way of life Pop-up Store” has been arrange for the month of November at Gate 33 Gallery, AIRSIDE in Kai Tak with an purpose to encourage and help designers to run their sustainable style companies.
A Journey of Rediscovery – 30 years of Shanghai Tang
In celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, Shanghai Tang collaborates with PMQ to current “The Previous, Current & Way forward for Shanghai Tang”, an exhibition working from 27 November to fifteen December. This retrospective shines a light-weight on the model’s journey, with archival items and up to date designs marking its evolution. Highlights embody a thought management panel with famend Chinese language photographer Chen Man, who will talk about her inventive work with Shanghai Tang, from her iconic 2012 marketing campaign photoshoot to the model’s 2024 Fall/Winter capsule assortment. The celebration of fashion and artistry is a beneficial alternative to dive into the legacy of one in all Hong Kong’s most iconic style homes.
Motifx – Revitalizing Historic Chinese language Sample For Fashionable Design
A must-see for tradition lovers, “Motifx – Revitalizing Historic Chinese language Sample For Fashionable Design Reviving Conventional Chinese language Patterns” will open on 28 November to 29 December at K11 Musea. This exhibition options over 100 reimagined Chinese language motifs and artefacts by younger designers and artists, respiration new life into conventional aesthetics. With panel discussions that includes specialists like Professor Wu Haiyan and icons from Shanghai Tang, the immersive expertise affords a mix of historical past and innovation that captures the timeless fantastic thing about Chinese language heritage.
VOGUE Loves Hong Kong Celebration
On 28 November, VOGUE Loves Hong Kong Celebration is about to show up the glamour with a star-studded night all about fashion. Worldwide icons and style influencers in attendance embody Wi Ha-jun, the Korean breakout star; CL, Okay-pop sensation and former member of 2NE1; Lucien Laviscount, cherished for his function in Emily in Paris, Hollywood actress Naomi Scott; Koki, famend mannequin from Japan, and Eileen Gu, the Olympic freestyle skier and mannequin, and lots of extra. The star-studded occasion is about to shine a highlight on Hong Kong’s vibrant style scene.
Trend Asia Hong Kong
Returning as a spotlight of town’s style calendar, Trend Asia Hong Kong shines a highlight on Asian design and craftsmanship. This yr’s programme options the Trend Challenges Discussion board on 29 November at St. Regis Hong Kong, bringing collectively notable audio system and trade heavyweights together with Nicolas Morineaux, CEO, Galeries Lafayette China, Prabal Gurung, Vice Chairman of Council of Trend Designers of America; Lv Xiaolei, Government Vice Chairman of Shanghai Trend Designer Affiliation; Laura Weir, Artistic Director from Selfridges and Trend Designer Phillip Lim, will discover the way forward for style, discussing subjects from market developments to the significance of expertise and digital innovation. In the meantime, the “10 Asian Designers To Watch” exhibition, hosted on the Clockenflap Music & Arts Competition from 29 November to 1 December, will flip heads with abilities like Grace Ling, Juntae Kim, KWK by Kay Kwok, Markgong, Oude Waag, Raxxy, Ruohan, Setchu, Tanakadaisuke and Ya Yi, all of whom are winners of this yr’s version. The showcase may even spotlight a curated collection of distinctive previous winners together with Chenpeng, Christian Stone, Feng Chen Wang, Louis Shengtao Chen, pillings, Ponder.er, Pronounce, Reverie by Caroline Hú, Shuting Qiu and Windowsen. The exhibition’s theme this yr, “SOUNDSTITCH”, marries style with music in an unforgettable, sensory expertise to depart an enduring impression.
The Hong Kong Trend Fest brings a myriad of occasions and actions that members from the industries and public are welcome. For the entire programme schedule and newest updates, please go to the official Hong Kong Trend Fest web site: www.hongkongfashionfest.com.
Please word that occasion particulars are topic to alter with out prior discover.
About Hong Kong Trend Fest Introduced by the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area Chief Government within the 2023 Coverage Handle, “Hong Kong Trend Design Week” shall be organised yearly ranging from 2024 to consolidate varied style design occasions for selling Hong Kong’s style and textile design manufacturers in addition to reaffirming Hong Kong’s place as a first-rate vacation spot for internet hosting main cultural and artistic occasions. The Cultural and Artistic Industries Improvement Company of the Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism Bureau has actively engaged stakeholders to grasp the thought, injecting new parts to create synergy for various style design actions.
Hong Kong Trend Design Week is branded as “Hong Kong Trend Fest”. The core programmes of the inaugural Hong Kong Trend Fest shall be held between 20 November and 4 December 2024 at varied cultural landmarks and iconic design and style areas in Hong Kong, presenting a full agenda of various style design happenings. The Authorities of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area is dedicated to creating the brand-new flagship Hong Kong Trend Fest into an annual signature occasion sequence to model Hong Kong as a style design hub in Asia.
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About Cultural and Artistic Industries Improvement Company (CCIDA) The Cultural and Artistic Industries Improvement Company (CCIDA) established in June 2024, previously often called Create Hong Kong (CreateHK), is a devoted workplace arrange by the Authorities of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area underneath the Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism Bureau to supply one-stop providers and help to the cultural and artistic industries with a mission to foster a conducive atmosphere in Hong Kong to facilitate the event of arts, tradition and artistic sectors as industries.
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