Between March 28 and April 3, China International Fashion
Week 2004/2005 (autumn/winter season) at the Beijing Hotel
Wangfujing became the focus of Beijing and China.
Jeans suits, down jackets, the latest in female and male
attire, hairstyles and makeup were all on display (including a
special show by makeup artist Ji Mi) and everything seemed to
delight and dazzle the spectators.
Models displayed the new trends for this autumn and winter from
Bosideng, Yingda, Weipeng, Edenbo, IZOD, EAGLEPTY, Han Song,
Daniel Faret, Yundun, Cabbeen, Fashion Island and La
zenel.
The regular parts of Fashion Week were back, with the 12th
China International Young Designers Contest and the 5th China
Fashion Design Rewarding Fund Appraisal both proving their
longstanding popularity. In addition, China's first Swimsuit
Design Contest was held during the week.
1,458 design works from 25 countries were sent to China for the
China International Young Designers Contest, and 33 young
designers from 19 countries were represented in Swimsuit
Design. Such a large number of entrants meant that the China
International Young Designers Contest boasts more participating
countries than even the Paris International Young Designers
Contest.
Well-known models including Miss China Guan Qi, Wang Min, Liu
Duo and Wei Jie, as well as 100 others showed the fashion on
display to its best advantage in 21 separate catwalk
events.
The event also saw more partnership between international
designers and fashion-related brands. One of the featured
international designers was Mr. Han Song from Korea, who also
participated in 2002 Fashion Week. He worked as designer for
TROA New York and Seoul after 1993, established his own
corporate Han Song Couture in 1997 and won the New Designer of
the Year Award at the 1999 Seoul Fashion Awards. His designs
for this year's event featured night gowns in classical style.
His show was sponsored by the French cosmetic brand Bourjois,
who believed that Han Song's style reflects their own
energy-rich and free spirited image.
