Getting 'haute' in Heilongjiang
Couture comes in from the cold as fashion week dazzles, report Zhou Huiying and Tian Xuefei in Harbin.
Over 10 successful editions, Harbin Fashion Week has attracted more than 1,300 international designers from about 70 countries and regions to showcase their work.
The World Fashion Designers Conference has provided an important platform for international designers to engage in exchanges and cooperation and, as such, the West City Red Square has been designated as the permanent venue for the event going forward.
China is known as one of the biggest fashion producers, and Harbin has used advanced technology to cement itself as one of the fashion capitals.
"Harbin Fashion Week takes innovation, green technology, fashion and sharing as its development concept," the event's organizers said.
"It takes artificial intelligence and high-tech as its driving force, and a beautiful life and fashion city as its theme," they added.
"In doing so, it stimulates innovation driven by endogenous power, creating and leading people's growing demand for a better life, highlighting internationalization, industrialization, artistry and marketization," the statement concluded.
