Event Overview

Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Bi-City Fashion Week 2025

From April 9 to 14, 2025, 2025 Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Bi-City Fashion Week will be held in Milan, Italy. This year's Bi-City Fashion Week will promote in-depth cooperation and extensive exchanges between Shenzhen and Milan at the industrial level through the three featured sections of "Show, Meeting and Tour". The event will take "Art without Boundaries - Twin Cities Cultural Design Show" with Giacomo Santucci, former CEO of GUCCI, as the chief curator as the core point of attraction, bringing together the oriental intellectual creation and western fashion heritage, realizing a comprehensive conceptual upgrade from the field of fashion to the diversified fields of science and technology, culture, lifestyle and so on.


During the event, the much-anticipated Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Fashion Economic and Trade Cooperation Office will be formally inaugurated in Milan to build a more solid bridge for the fashion industry cooperation between the two places; at that time, a number of Chinese and Italian enterprises/institutions will formally sign a strategic cooperation agreement, which is planned to carry out in-depth collaboration in the fields of design research and development, supply chain integration and so on. By complementing each other's strengths and sharing resources, enterprises of the two places are expected to realize a competitive leap in the global fashion market and jointly develop a broader international business map.


This international fashion event will be held under the special support of the People's Government of Longhua District, Shenzhen, and created by the Shenzhen Industrial Design Association (SIDA), aiming to promote the deep integration of the Chinese and Italian fashion industries with innovation and design as the engine, and to join hands to create a new chapter in the cooperation of the global fashion industry.

Art Without Boundaries-Shenzhen-Milan Cultural Design Show

Exhibition opening time:April 9, 2025, 18:00-19:45 (Italian time)

Exhibition Duration:April 9-April 14, 2025 (April 7-April 8 for scheduled guests)

Exhibition Venue. St. Vittore's Church Complex

 

Exhibition Synopsis:Achievements show area is expected to be 300 square meters, invited former Prada CEO and other internationally renowned artists team joint planning, focused on selecting and displaying Shenzhen, Milan, the twin cities in the jewelry industry, apparel industry, smart home industry, intelligent hardware industry and other areas of fine results. Focus on Longhua District in women's design, digital fashion, ceramics, printmaking industry, intelligent hardware and other advantageous areas of the centralized results show, highlighting the Longhua District, Shenzhen in the fashion industry, soft and hard strength and embedded in the global design and innovation industry ecosystem. During the opening ceremony of the exhibition, the unveiling ceremony of Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Fashion Economic and Trade Cooperation Office will be held. The office, as the front line of fashion exchange between the two places, will gather a large amount of first-hand industry and business information, paving the way for Longhua fashion enterprises to connect with the international fast track.

Fashion and Tradition - Twin Cities Cultural Commons

Matchmaking session time:April 10, 2025, 10:00 - 11:40 (Italian time)

Matchmaking Venue. Innovation Gallery at the Louisiana Center for Creativity and Students in Milan

 

Matchmaking Briefing:The focus covers the "Shenzhen (Longhua)-Milan Global Fashion Industry Business Promotion Seminar" and "Fashion and Tradition - Twin Cities Cultural Sharing Meeting". To Milan all-round, three-dimensional display of Longhua quality investment environment, from the convenience of transportation hubs, municipal infrastructure, to one-stop efficient and digital transformation of government services; a detailed interpretation of a series of preferential policies, from tax credits, rent subsidies, to the introduction of incentives for talent; the depth of the industrial advantages, to stimulate the enthusiasm of the local enterprises to invest in Longhua, a full range of catalysts for the two cities in the industry in the technology sharing, talent exchanges, financial integration and other dimensions, Talent exchange, financial integration and other dimensions of the depth of cooperation, drive the synergistic development of industries in the two places to a deep new realm.

Design Traveling, Industry-Industry Integration Tour

Activity time:April 8-April 11, 2025

Event Location.  Milan, Turin, Italy

 

Event Description:The Industry-Industry Integration Tour will lead participants to experience the innovative atmosphere and unique charm of Milan's renowned fashion design companies/institutes, and decode the core codes of Italian fashion design. CISE Institute of Politecnico di Milano, National Automobile Museum of Turin, and Pininfarina, to promote China and Italy in the design concepts, models and ideas on the depth of the collision, the collision of cutting-edge thinking sparks ignite the creative engine, for Longhua District fashion brand enterprises to accumulate a global forward-looking vision of the brand design and innovation experience.