On April 9, 2025 Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Bi-City Fashion Week was grandly opened in Milan, Italy, instantly attracting global attention. At the opening ceremony, Leju Robot from Longhua, Shenzhen, appeared in the Millennium Church, brilliantly demonstrating the charm of China's scientific and technological innovation, and more than a hundred products made a synchronized appearance, which comprehensively demonstrated Shenzhen's unique style in the fields of fashion, culture, art and science and technology.
In the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Italy, the international exchange and cooperation in the field of fashion industry once again ushered in a high moment. 2025 Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Bi-City Fashion Week - "Fashion and Tradition - Bi-City Cultural Sharing Meeting" was held on April 10th at the Innovation Gallery of Milan's Louise Creative and Student Center. Innovation Gallery of Milan Louise Center for Creators and Students. Supported by the People's Government of Longhua District, Shenzhen, and organized by Shenzhen Industrial Design Industry Association, the event carefully set up keynote presentations, industry promotions, signing of strategic cooperation, sharing of innovative practices, etc. Elite leaders of the fashion industry in China and Italy, authoritative representatives of universities and academics, etc. gathered together to exchange ideas on the innovative development of the global fashion industry and the diversified integration, and to draw a new blueprint for the development of the fashion industry together. The conference was organized by the Chinese and Italian fashion industries.
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Global investment kicks off, Longhua's fashion strength shines on the international stage
Shenzhen, the frontier of China's reform and opening up, is full of innovative vitality and fashion trends; Milan, the birthplace of the Renaissance, perfectly interprets the beauty of the fusion of traditional craftsmanship and modern design. At the Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Bi-City Fashion Week 2025, the two fashion capitals join hands again to draw a new blueprint for the global fashion industry.
Shenzhen Longhua District Standing Committee, Publicity Department Minister Huang Limin said in his speech, Shenzhen and Milan, the two cities meet, is the resonance of fashion and tradition, but also the depth of the dialogue between the East and West culture, but also "the beauty of the beautiful, beautiful and common" vivid practice.
Luisa Bocchetto, former president of the World Design Organization, senator and former president of the Italian Industrial Design Association, pointed out in her speech that the event not only continued the successful experience of the first event, but also became an important milestone for China and Italy to deepen cooperation in the field of fashion design. In the future, the two cities will continue to enhance the fit in industrial cooperation, technology docking and cultural exchanges, create a platform of complementary resources and advantage sharing, and jointly promote the global fashion design industry to a higher level of development.
Luisa Bocchetto, Senator, former President of the World Design Organization and former President of the Italian Society of Industrial Design
Subsequently, Longhua District key areas of construction to promote the theme of the Center Wang Lingyan promotion "Longhua business environment", a comprehensive display of Longhua in the industrial development of the outstanding advantages - fashion industry clusters, with the Dalang fashion town as the core, convergence of the Masefield, Shadow child, Golisi, Yizhihu and other 700 head of the fashion industry, the total annual output value exceeded 10 billion mark, has become a "digital + fashion" fusion of the development of the benchmark area; space to ensure a strong, successful release of 25 square kilometers of development space through the preparation of the land, and so on, and effectively achieve "as long as there are good projects, Longhua will have a good Longhua will have good space as long as there are good projects; internationalization services will be upgraded, and in 2023, the largest, most functional and service-rich district-level international cooperation service and exchange platform will be built in Shenzhen to further deepen international economic and trade cooperation, so that international market players can develop and flourish in Longhua without any worries. With an open attitude, superior business environment and strong industrial strength, Longhua is inviting global fashion enterprises to seek development and share opportunities!
People in the audience
Deepening strategic cooperation to build a new high ground for the fashion industry
It is understood that this activity has contributed to a number of heavyweight cooperation projects, Shenzhen Guochen Yongfengyuan Porcelain Co., Ltd. and Giovannoni design studio, HUI MILANO fashion brand and We manage management company, Shenzhen ZanLife Design Co., Ltd. and Designtech design factory will be respectively around the Guochen Yongfengyuan masters of the co-branding of the IP, non-legacy culture of the combination of Western and Eastern, Product design and other areas of strategic cooperation. Among them, the Chinese brand HUI will cooperate with We management company on the development and management of Chinese non-heritage culture and the combination of Chinese and Western high-end fashion brands outside China. Both parties will explore the fashion value of Chinese non-heritage culture, create high-end fashion brands with international influence, and promote Chinese non-heritage culture on the global fashion stage.
At this cultural sharing meeting, Shenzhen Longhua District Key Area Construction Promotion Center signed a strategic cooperation with CISE School of Politecnico di Milano and Here Fashion Hub (HFH Fashion Hub), which will fully integrate the advantageous resources and carry out in-depth cooperation in the future.
Shenzhen Longhua District Key Area Construction Promotion Center and CISE Institute of Politecnico di Milano, Here Fashion Hub (HFH Fashion Center) reached a strategic cooperation signing
Louisa Bochet, former president of the World Design Organization, spoke highly of Longhua District's industrial advantages: "Shenzhen, especially Longhua District, is at the forefront of the fashion design industry and manufacturing industry, and is playing an increasingly important role in the global industrial chain by virtue of its keen market insights and excellent innovation capabilities."
In the innovation practice sharing session, Liu Hanbin, Founder of Shenzhen Damo Dazhong Technology Co., Ltd, and Pierre Foulkas, Deputy General Manager of Glory Italy, successively shared their innovative practices and brand development experiences in the integration of fashion and technology, and expressed their gratitude to Shenzhen City and Longhua District for their initiatives in the process of enterprise growth and going to the sea. These sharing provided valuable reference for the enterprises present, and further strengthened the confidence and expectation of potential enterprises to invest in Shenzhen (Longhua).
Liu Hanbin, Founder of Shenzhen Damodai Intelligent Control Technology Co.
Honor Italy Deputy General Manager Pierre Foulkas.
In 2011, Shenzhen realized the zero breakthrough of China's participation in 100% Design London, and has since embarked on the journey of design overseas. Now, the Twin Cities Fashion Week has been held consecutively, and Shenzhen's design overseas has gradually stepped into the 2.0 era from the 1.0 era, which is not only a display of Shenzhen's design strength in the international arena, but also a vivid footnote to promote the in-depth integration of Chinese and foreign fashion industries. During the event, outside the venue, also included in the official schedule of Milan Design Week "Perception of China" Design Academic Week activities are also carried out simultaneously. The activity gathered excellent works and high-quality resources from a number of domestic institutions, injecting brand-new vitality into the integration and development of cultural creativity and fashion industry, and further highlighting the steady internationalization pace of China's fashion design industry.
The successful organization of the "Fashion and Tradition - Twin Cities Cultural Sharing Meeting" of the 2025 Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Bi-City Fashion Week has not only reached a number of industrial cooperation signing projects, but also deeply linked the international high-quality resources, and moreover, laid a solid foundation for the long-term cooperation between Shenzhen (Longhua) and Milan in the field of fashion industry. In the future, the two sides will continue to work together to promote the innovative development of the global fashion industry and add new highlights to the friendly cooperation between China and Italy.
