The annual Beijing Fashion Week raised its curtain on Sept. 15. During the eight days until Sept. 22, the festival will feature activities including brand trend releases, summit forums, fashion exhibitions and professional events at Beijing's cultural landmarks such as Forbidden City, the Ancestral Temple, Fangheng International Center, the National Agricultural Exhibition Center, the China Millennium Monument, Chaoyang Joy City, Topnew Film Industrial Park and Wangfujing.

Dahua Fashion under Beijing Fashion Holdings, an organizer of the fashion week, presented 86 sets of clothes from three brands during three sessions of a concept show. The fashionable clothes use fabrics such as high-quality silk, heavy satin and organza, and adopts classic crafts like tassels, digital printing decorations and embroidery.

During the opening ceremony, Zhang Guilin, director of Beijing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, said, "The fashion industry is the most vibrant and attractive part in the cultural and creative industry, and is an important backup for making Beijing a capital of fashion and creativity. The platform for the fashion industry founded in 2016 has attracted much attention in China and worldwide for its development speed and innovative ability as well as the atmosphere it created."

At the summit forum on Sept. 15, Beijing Fashion Holding released a research report it conducted in partnership with two universities on building Beijing into a fashion capital, as well as the "Blue Paper on the Development of Beijing's Fashion Industry (2018)." According to the forum, as residents' disposable income rises every year, Beijing as one of the megacities with large consumer spending witnesses an increasingly personalized and fashion-oriented demand.

The blue paper says Beijing should hold diversified international fashion weeks, design weeks, professional fairs, fashion events, design competitions, film festivals and other activities to develop its fashion industry and construct itself into an international fashion exchange center. The paper further calls for Beijing to establish an organization for fashion forecasting and fashion review, and make periodical and reliable forecasts of fashion trends, making itself a fashion information hub to guide the global fashion industry.

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