Make fashion more "face", the 2023 World Fashion Congress Fashion Fabric Innovation Conference injects new vitality into sustainable fashion

【Summary Description】 Currently, with the continuous emergence of various new types of fiber fabrics and high-tech fabrics, clothing fabrics are not only meeting people's basic clothing needs but also creating new consumer demands, meeting modern people's high-quality clothing needs and bringing new clothing experiences. The texture, pattern, and color of the fabric reflect the main characteristics of clothing, determining its external characteristics and internal quality. The innovative development of fabrics provides strong support for leveraging the value enrichment effect, industry correlation effect, and innovation spillover effect of clothing.

Currently, with the continuous emergence of various new types of fiber fabrics and high-tech fabrics, clothing fabrics are not only meeting people's basic clothing needs but also creating new consumer demands, meeting modern people's high-quality clothing needs and bringing new clothing experiences. The texture, pattern, and color of the fabric reflect the main characteristics of clothing, determining its external characteristics and internal quality. The innovative development of fabrics provides strong support for leveraging the value enrichment effect, industry correlation effect, and innovation spillover effect of clothing.
To promote collaborative innovation and integrated development of clothing and fabrics, the 2023 World Fashion Conference Fashion Fabric Innovation Conference was held in Dongguan on November 18. The theme of this conference is "Low Carbon, Fashion, and Technology". The attending representatives focused on improving clothing quality and expanding functionality, and conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions around fabric trends, fabric and clothing integration innovation, functional fabric development, green and low-carbon consumption, intelligent wearable and other content.
Leaders from the China Textile Federation include Chen Zhihua, President of the China Printing and Dyeing Industry Association, Li Ruiping, Vice President, and Lin Lin, Vice President and Secretary General; Feng Dehu, President of the China Textile Construction Planning Research Association; Yan Yan, Director of the Social Responsibility Office of the China Textile Industry Federation; Li Bo, Deputy Director of the China Textile Information Center; and Xie Fangming, Vice Chairman of the China Fashion Designers Association; More than 200 representatives, including Chen Haohua, member of the Party Committee of Humen Town, Dongguan City, leaders from Humen Town, as well as experts, scholars, outstanding enterprise representatives, technical research and development personnel, and local association leaders from the textile and clothing industry chain at home and abroad, attended the meeting.
This meeting is chaired by Li Ruiping, Vice President of the China Printing and Dyeing Industry Association.
Chen Haohua, member of the Party Committee of Humen Town, Dongguan City, stated in his speech that after years of development, the Humen clothing and apparel industry has formed a large-scale industrial cluster, a well-equipped industrial chain, and a mature and developed market system. The annual output value of clothing and apparel is 43 billion yuan, with annual sales exceeding 83 billion yuan. There are nearly 4000 production and supporting enterprises (institutions), and more than 200000 employees, Humen is the only leading area among the 12 world-class textile and clothing industry clusters in China that highlights the "clothing industry". He pointed out that this conference brings together domestic and foreign experts, representatives of excellent enterprises in the textile and clothing industry chain, focuses on improving the quality and functional expansion of textile and clothing, and conducts exchanges and discussions around fabric trends and other content. It will undoubtedly bring new thinking and explore new paths for the fashion innovation of Humen Clothing.
Chen Zhihua, President of the China Printing and Dyeing Industry Association, pointed out in his speech that in recent years, the clothing industry cluster in Dongguan has accelerated its pace towards low-carbon, fashionable, digital, and high-end development. The clothing industry in Dongguan has shown new development vitality in the new stage. Humen, as a major clothing industry hub in Dongguan, has a superior geographical location, a huge industrial scale, complete industrial supporting facilities, and a mature market system. It has developed into a new highland for the fashion industry in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area. The cultural and creative level, market recognition of independent brands, and international influence of the Humen clothing industry are constantly improving, and are also gaining more and more recognition and respect from the world.
For the future development of the industry, he pointed out that firstly, it is necessary to strengthen technological cooperation and build an open innovation ecosystem. We should focus on common key technologies in the industry, deepen international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, and work together to create an open, fair, and just environment for scientific and technological development. We will focus on promoting original innovation and independent innovation, utilizing the power of technology to enhance the manufacturing capacity of fashionable, green, and high-quality fabrics, and achieve more and higher quality innovation results. The second is to promote low-carbon transformation and practice the concept of green development. To promote the green, low-carbon, and sustainable development of the clothing industry, it is necessary to gather the joint efforts of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain, domestic and foreign scientific research institutions. We must adhere to goal orientation and action orientation, learn from each other, and work together to build a platform for green communication and cooperation, and continuously promote the improvement of the industry's endogenous driving force and capabilities for green development. The third is to promote integrated development and enhance the level of the industrial value chain. Strengthen cooperation with fiber, yarn, and fabric ends, especially with the integration and development of clothing ends, adhere to the demand orientation of the end market, develop high-quality products that meet market requirements and create market demand. By focusing on research and development and market, we deeply integrate into the product supply chain and value chain system.