Shanghai Emerges as Global Fashion Hub with 2025 China Annual Trends Summit
Shanghai is set to showcase its growing influence in the global fashion landscape as the 2025 China Annual Trends Summit opens today, blending heritage craftsmanship with futuristic innovation. The two-day event highlights China’s accelerating shift from manufacturing powerhouse to creative trendsetter, with runway shows, investor pitch sessions, and high-level discussions on the country’s booming Guochao (national trend) movement.
The summit's opening night will feature a New Chinese Style fashion spectacle, using technology to enhance the presentation effect, showing the contemporary vitality of intangible cultural heritage, and setting the tone of the event, Renewal of Tradition. Famous models and actors will be invited to participate in the opening show, which will bring a new experience of fusing art and fashion in a unique way.
Fashion Industry Venture Capital Meeting will be held on June 13, inviting 15-20 representatives of fashion enterprises, technology enterprises, investment funds, etc. to carry out project display, promotion and roadshow, and at the same time, organizing fashion industry investment institutions, industry chain related institutions, etc. to docking projects, so as to provide a platform for resource sharing and more cooperation opportunities for upstream and downstream enterprises of the industry chain.
The logo of this grand ceremony draws inspiration from the traditional Chinese knotted buttons (pan kou), featuring a three-dimensional and abstract design. With minimalist lines and the quintessential China red as its primary color, it embodies the elegance and timeless charm of Chinese culture.
2025 China Annual Trends Summit will comprehensively review the evolution of China's fashion industry. At this critical juncture, we will collaborate with industry stakeholders and observers to build a new ecosystem for domestic fashion development, pioneer innovative paradigms for Chinese fashion culture dissemination, and chart upgrade pathways for industrial advancement.