Fashion designer Wang Tao: Showing the charm and vitality of "Chinese design" to the world

　　China News Service, Shanghai, February 5th: Title: Fashion designer Wang Tao: Showing the charm and vitality of "Chinese design" to the world

　　China News Service reporter Jiang Yu

　　"As a Chinese designer, my works will definitely contain elements of Chinese culture. Chinese culture's understanding of beauty is unique, and I hope to show the charm and vitality of 'Chinese design' to the world." JUZUI Creative Director Wang Tao, a famous fashion designer, said this in an interview with a reporter from China News Service.

　　A week later, Wang Tao will participate in New York Fashion Week for the seventeenth time and launch a new autumn and winter women's clothing series with the theme of "flowers". JUZUI is the only Chinese fashion brand on the official schedule of the 2024 Autumn and Winter New York Fashion Week.

In February 2024, the famous fashion designer Wang Tao was interviewed by the media. Photo by China News Service reporter Jiang Yu

　　After graduating from East China Normal University with a major in history, Wang Tao entered Tokyo Mode GAGUEN, a famous fashion design school in Japan, to study fashion creative design out of his love for fashion. After graduation, he became an assistant designer for the famous Japanese designer Junko Koshino, and then chose He went to Europe to develop and served as the chief designer of the British fashion brand "Rebel Belle London" for four consecutive years. In 2020, Wang Tao was invited to serve as the creative director of Charles Jourdan, a century-old French fashion brand. From March 2023, he will serve as the creative director of JUZUI brand under Anzheng Fashion Group Co., Ltd.

　　Wang Tao has always observed the world from a multicultural perspective and used a unique design language that integrates East and West to tell her own fashion ideas. She is also the first person in the Chinese fashion industry to bring the "Made in Shanghai" label to New York Fashion Week.

　　Wang Tao said: "Fashion is a particularly interesting existence. It can transcend countries, races, ages, and even genders, and bring together people who love life and beauty. My design inspiration comes from everyone I come into contact with from all over the world. A successful woman from various cultural backgrounds, multiculturalism is 'in my blood'."

In 2019, Wang Tao (2nd from right) participated in the 2019 Autumn and Winter New York Fashion Week. (Photo provided by interviewee)

　　Since becoming the creative director of JUZUI, Wang Tao has attracted the attention of more successful and confident women with his unique new Chinese style and new national trend design ideas. To participate in New York Fashion Week this time, after tracing back to the origin and sorting out the development of the JUZUI brand for more than 20 years, she used "flowers" as the theme and selected peony, a flower with Chinese characteristics, as the main image to create an original design, using bold color combinations, Mix and match collision, a "subversive creativity" in fashionable women's clothing.

　　"I chose peony as the protagonist in the 'Flower World' I constructed, not only because the culture and charm of peony best express China, but also because peony is known as the 'Flower Fairy', symbolizing the development of women in different periods and with different personalities. Diverse styles.”

　　Wang Tao also revealed the key guests of the JUZUI show at New York Fashion Week: "We invited a 75-year-old model and internet celebrity who is still active on the T stage - Elon Musk's mother Meyer Ma She will appear in our final show."

　　"The New York Fashion Week Organizing Committee has very strict requirements for catwalk brands. It is not easy for Chinese brands to be on the official schedule of New York Fashion Week." Zheng Anzheng, chairman of Anzheng Fashion Group, said: "It is a very wonderful thing to allow Chinese brands to go global. But there is still a long way to go. In my opinion, if Chinese fashion brands want to increase their influence, they must show the heritage and charm of Chinese culture."

　　Liu Peifang, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Garment Industry Association, believes that Wang Tao has always been committed to showing Chinese originality on the world fashion stage. The clothes she designed have entered the world's mainstream fashion circles and become a model for Chinese fashion designers to go global.

　　"In recent years, many Chinese designers and fashion brands have successfully gone overseas with the help of famous international fashion weeks such as New York Fashion Week, allowing the world to see the unique oriental aesthetics and traditional production techniques of Chinese fashion. We hope that the Chinese and foreign fashion circles will The exchanges are like flowers." Liu Peifang said. (over)