The only constant in the digital age is that it is always changing. The Metaverse is roaring in with a powerful force. In such a surging and vast “wave”, the 2022 “Big Wave Cup” Chinese Women’s Wear Design Competition is brand new. Let’s travel with the contestants in the graceful world of the Metaverse that combines reality and reality. territory.
In the 11 years since the “Big Wave Cup” Chinese Women’s Wear Design Competition was held, it has always adhered to the “Oriental” design theme and continued to promote the combination of China’s excellent traditional culture and contemporary fashion, and has become the unique IP of professional competitions. The 2022 “Big Wave Cup” Chinese Women’s Wear Design Competition will focus on the most popular metaverse at present. What kind of note will be played when virtuality and reality, tradition and modernity meet? “Vowels#East” is this year’s theme. I believe that designers With the support of digitalization and intelligence, we can burst out amazing design energy and build a “new world” of pioneering fashion in the Metaverse that integrates multiple aspects and coexists virtuality and reality.
In 2022, the “Big Wave Cup” Chinese Women’s Wear Design Competition combined with the Metaverse has carried out a series of innovative upgrades in terms of IP, prizes, bonuses, awards, competition systems, etc., making “the competition more than just a competition.” Breaking into the virtual world, in addition to combining the design theme with the metaverse, this year’s competition will recruit new virtual digital “spokespersons” with prizes from the whole society, and create NFT collections of the winning contestants’ works; returning to the real world, the competition is supporting Chinese original design We continue to increase our efforts in strength development and significantly increase the amount of prizes. The gold prize is as high as 200,000 yuan and the total prize money is as high as 562,000 yuan. It is at the forefront of domestic fashion design competitions. At the same time, it has established the “Golden Wave Award” for the first time and is committed to building it in the future. A major award for Bay Area designtalent. The competition will also launch a special training camp for the fashion design competition to comprehensively assess the contestants’ practical abilities. The talent “through train” after the finals will also build a direct bridge between enterprises and design talents.
Real world, unlocking multiple “games”
The 2022 “Big Wave Cup” Chinese Women’s Wear Design Competition is sponsored by China National Garment Association and Shenzhen Longhua District People’s Government, Shenzhen Longhua District Key Area Construction Promotion Center, “China Clothing” Magazine, organized by Dalang Street Office, Longhua District, Shenzhen.
As one of the first demonstration sites for the creation of characteristic towns in Guangdong Province, Dalang Fashion Town also celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. In 2020, the town jointly built a “world-class fashion town” pilot with the ChinaTextile IndustryFederation, which has become a national benchmarkindustrial Clusteris a brilliant business card of Shenzhen City and a banner for the development of China’s garment industry. At present, the town has gathered more than 700 clothing and supporting companies, as well as more than a thousand outstanding designers including the “Golden Summit Award”. The town always attaches great importance to the discovery and cultivation of talents, so it has passed the “Big Wave Cup” for 11 consecutive years. The China Women’s Clothing Design Competition provides more original design talents to China’s clothing industry.
As a brand event in the field of industry competitions, the “Big Wave Cup” Chinese Women’s Wear Design Competition has always been committed to establishing in-depth dialogue with current designers. This year, the competition has significantly increased the value of the awards, specifically upgrading the gold award to the “Golden Wave Award” with a bonus of 200,000 yuan; the silver award to the “Wave Award” with a bonus of 150,000 yuan; and the bronze award to the “Wave Award” with a bonus of 10 10,000 yuan; set up a virtual spokesperson-shaped symbol collection award with a bonus of 20,000 yuan. In addition, there will be awards for excellence and subsidies for clothing production. The competition organizing committee will take more practical actions to support China’s original design forces and escort China’s outstanding designers to the international stage.
▲Works of previous award-winning contestants
At the same time, the competition will intensify the assessment of contestants’ creative ability to commercial ability, enhance the commercial implementation of design works, and enable design to better serve the industry. There are four sets of clothing design drafts collected this time as a series, two of which are creative works, and two sets are commercial works transformed by contestants based on their creativity.
▲The brands of previous award-winners are featured in the 2020 “Big Show”��Proposed spokesman image symbol set 1 person: 20,000 yuan
(Note: All awards are pre-tax amounts and will be distributed after the organizing committee pays personal income tax.)
4. Work requirements
1. Entries must be original works that have never been published, and contestants must sign an originality guarantee. The competition rejects all plagiarized or malicious imitation works. Once found, the contestant will be disqualified and the party concerned shall bear all copyright and legal consequences. The organizing committee has the right to hold the contestant responsible for any impact on the reputation of the competition caused by plagiarism or malicious imitation.
2. This competition is open to domestic and foreign fashion designers, teachers and students of fashion schools, art schools, and all people who love fashion design.
3. The entries must reflect the theme of this year’s competition – Vowels#Eastern, and be combined with the 2023 international fashion trends. The entries must have distinctive cultural characteristics and commercial characteristics of the times. Landability.
4. Participants must provide the following relevant materials:
(1) Submit “4” sets of color renderings and process structure drawings of women’s clothing series, of which 2 sets are creative designs and 2 sets are commercial designs extended by creative designs;
(2) The size of the work is 27cm*40cm, both hand-painted and computer-drawn, and comes with fabric samples;
(3) Submit a design description, including sources of inspiration, design concepts, popular elements and other related elements.
5. Based on the preliminary evaluation of the submitted works, 30 contestants will be selected to enter the “Dalang Cup” special training camp. The contestants will be inspected through 7-10 days of training camp activities such as corporate training, famous teacher training, and visits to Dalang Fashion Town. Based on their practical ability, 21 contestants were finally selected as finalists. The competition organizing committee is responsible for the contestants’ food, accommodation and some transportation during the special training camp.
6. The finalists are required to make “4” sets of ready-to-wear works based on the renderings. The styles or patterns cannot be changed at will. Accessories are required to be complete. The clothing size is made according to a 180cm female model, and the shoe size is 39 or 40.
7. The finalists will shoot a design explanation video in the special training camp, including sources of inspiration, design concepts, popular elements and other related content. The video will be used for online voting, and the “Online Voting Award” will eventually be selected.
8. Bring your own music for the finals catwalk, 3 minutes long, in MP3 format.
9. The organizer has the right to promote, publish, display, and brand all entries. The originals of gold, silver, and bronze medals in the finals will be collected by Dalang Fashion Town.
10. The finals will be held in Dalang Fashion Town, Shenzhen on October 18. The competition organizing committee will be responsible for the food, accommodation and some transportation of the finalists during the finals.
11. In addition to the above specific requirements, during the same period of the competition, the competition will openly collect the basic IP image of the “Big Wave Cup” virtual spokesperson from the public, including the front, side and back. The image must be highly identifiable and fit the “Big Wave Cup Women’s Wear Design Competition”. Submissions must be made electronically, with design drafts in JPG format, RGB mode, and A3 horizontal layout (height 297mm x width 420mm). The file storage name is “Big Wave Cup Virtual Spokesperson Image Design + Name (Organization) + Contact Number”. Submissions for virtual spokespersons should be sent to: [email protected], and the deadline is July 31.
12. The final interpretation right of this competition belongs to the 2022 “Big Wave Cup” Women’s Wear Design Competition Organizing Committee.
5. Contest Process
Registration and submission period: May 20-July 26, 2022
Deadline for express delivery of work renderings: July 26, 2022
Preliminary evaluation of the competition: early August 2022
Special training camp: mid-August 2022 (duration 7-10 days)
Ready-to-wear production period: August 15-October 15, 2022
Final date: October 18, 2022 (to be determined)
6. Registration channel and contact information
Click the “QR code” or “Read the original text” below to register
Registration link: https://www.eeff.net/topic-267.html
After registration, you will receive a unique entry number. Contestants must print the online registration form and express it together with the renderings to the “Big Wave Cup” Chinese Women’s Wear Design Competition Organizing Committee.
(Note: Registered contestants must keep the design draft for themselves, and the design draft will not be returned.)
Work delivery address:
Floor A407, Baiziwandongli, Chaoyang District, Beijing
“Big Wave Cup” Chinese Women’s Clothing Design Competition Organizing Committee
Contact for inquiries:
Zhao Shuang 18804063575
Zou Yangzhi 13701169064
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