Fashion Capital:Shanghai

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Shanghai is the leader of Fashion in China.Fashion is on the lips of everyone in Shanghai.After Milan，Paris，London，New York and Tokyo，Shanghai is going to claim to become the Oriental Fashion Capital.

Since it was opened as a commercial port in 1843，Shanghai became one of the first cities that were exposed to western thoughts and fashion.It is the first city to daring to try something new.

Here，we are trying to introduce you a modern Shanghai，a fashion Shanghai.

Fashion Sympol of Shanghai:Qipao，also called cheongsam，displaies Shanghai women’s graceful manner.Today，Qipao is also the modern designer’s fashion icon.Like Shanghai’s architecture，local fashion designers strive to create a fusion of western and traditional designs，often with innovative but controversial results.

Shanghai Fashion Week is a fashion event held twice every year，in October and April，in Shanghai，which is a part of Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival which usually lasts for a month.The main venue is in Fuxing Park，while the opening and closing ceremony is in Shanghai Fashion Center.Supported by the People’s Republic Ministry of Commerce，Shanghai Fashion Week is a major business and culture event of national class hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Government.Shanghai Fashion Week aims to build up an international and professional platform，gathering all top design talents of Asia.In cooperation with many consulates of other countries in Shanghai，Shanghai Fashion Week also invites many international designers to present their latest work.It’s also a venue for those designers who target Chinese market.The event features international designers but the primary purpose is to showcase Chinese designers.

The Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival is a fashion event held annually since 1995 by the municipal authority of Shanghai，China，and showing you why Shanghai is China’s fashion capital.

It is regarded as one of Shanghai’s”Four Festivals”（the other three being the Shanghai Art Festival，the Shanghai Tour Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival）.The fashion festival showcasesthe output of Shanghai’s fashion and textile industry.It is attended by fashion buyers from around the world and has had an audience of more than 100 million people.