Shanghai will hold the 2010 World Expo, which will be another grand event after 2008 Beijing Summer Olympiad, bring significant opportunities for the continuing growth of Shanghai internationalization and urbanization, as well as the sustainable development of Chinese culture cause and Shanghai’s fashion industry.
At the moment when Shanghai World Expo is coming closer, “China Cup” International Fashion Design Contest, the most widely-participated and most influential event held in shanghai for 14 years by Shanghai Municipal Government, will present 2009 “China Cup * Embracing World Expo” International New Talent Fashion Design Contest (hereafter as New Talent Fashion Design Contest), focusing on the World Expo theme of “Better City, Better Life” to display the charm of splendid Chinese civilization and ancient history with traditional Chinese Clothing element, at the same time the unique fashion culture of this modern international metropolis.

1. Theme: Better City, Better Life
2. Organization

Organizers: Shanghai Peoples’ Municipal Government, Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival Organizing Committee
Hosting Organizations: Shanghai Garment Trade Association, “China Cup” International Fashion Design Contest Organizing Committee
Associate Organization: SMG, Channel Young, SMG Grand Event Department. China Textile News, China Fashion Weekly, Fashion Times

1. Contents and Requirements
2. “New Talent” Fashion Design Contest is conducted in a series of original competition categorized in professional suit, women’s wear, men’s wear, children’s wear, beachwear/underwear, T-shirt.
3. Professional suit includes suits for service industry such as department stores, restaurants, supermarkets, hair salons; public transportations such as buses, taxi, civil aviation, railway transportation, coach transportation; tourism industry in hotels, tour guides, tourism agencies, catering; as well as public service in post office, hospitals, banks, customs, public securities, civil services etc..
4. Women’s wear includes dresses, gowns and traditional Chinese dresses;
5. Men’s wear includes formal suits, casual wear and sports wear;
6. Underwear/beachwear includes underwear, beachwear and swimwear etc.;
7. T-shirts includes novel design in fabrics, pattern and its application.
8. Works should be in sets with completeness without mix.
9. Numbers of clothes is not limited in each set (based on set when sign up)
10. The whole design and manufacture process of participant’s works should be accomplished by the contestant independently, works in the same collection should not have more than two designers and should specify the main designer and associate designer.
11. Every collection should include exactly FOUR SETS with necessary accessories (including shoes, hats and others) in integrity.
12. The contestants are required to fulfill the following requirements and carry out relevant application procedure.
13. Hand in one piece of mounted 40cm*60cm effect drawing of your eight sets of works, either hand drawn or computer-made. Pictures of your works or copy of your effect drawing is not valid. Incorrect in size, or drawn in more than one paper will result in cancellation of your competition qualification, and the sign up fee will not be refunded
14. The name of your works should be marked on the upper left corner of the effect drawing, while samples of all your fabrics in 8cm*8cmpasted on the lower right corner. Your name, organization and conception should not be present on the effect drawing.
15. On the rear side of the effect drawing, please paste your graphical structure drawing in the size of A4 paper on the upper left corner, while indicate your competition category, collection name, organization, nationality, contact information on the lower right corner.

Fill and hand in Application form for New Talent Fashion Design Contest, Competition Commitment and Payment Voucher. For detailed requirement please refer to www.cnfashion.net .

1. All works should be in original creation, design and production, duplicate contribution and plagiarism is strictly forbidden.
2. The organizing committee reserves all contestants’ works, effect drawings and copyrights, and the organizing committee has the right conduct promotion, publication, distribution, broadcast and display of all the contestants’ works.
3. Sign Up
4. Participants please sign up on www.cnfashion.net , participate the competition according to hints on the website;
5. Each participants should pay 20 USD of sign up fee according to sign up clues from www.cnfashion.net ; while local Shanghai participants could do it directly in our office.
6. After finishing sign up procedure, please send you effect drawing, application form for participation to organizing committee before December 20th, 2008 based on post mark; and send your complete electronic application form of participation to designer@cnfashion.net ;
7. The organizing committee is in Shanghai Garment Trade Association. Address: Room 6L33 ShanghaiMart, 2299 West Yanan Road, Shanghai, 200236; Telephone: 021-62362093, 021-62362310; Fax: 021-62361498; E-mail: designer@cnfashion.net, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Miss. Jiang and Ms.Weng and visit our website http://www.cnfashion.net
8. Judges

Renowned fashion designers from home and abroad, authoritative fashion critics, authoritative expert in fashion industry, reputed fashion educators and scholars, leaders of clothing enterprises and media, management expert in clothing industry and brand, visual art masters etc..

1. Appraisal
2. Standard of Appraisal: the works, which adapts to small scale production with potential commercial value, should adhere to competition principle with unique brand style, bring artistic originality with practicability, and illustrate the current trend with simplicity.
3. The contest will present golden prize, silver prize, bronze prize, excellence prize as well as four single awards, namely the Best Effect Drawing Prize; the Best Craftsmanship Prize; the Best Accessories Prize and the Best Fashionable Fabric Prize..
4. Awards
5. The final will reward winners with honors and materials. Besides certificate of award and trophy, the winner will also be awarded with corresponding bonuses or materials (foreign contestants will receive bonus according to foreign exchange rate then.)
6. The organizing committee has worked closely with universities from home and abroad to provide winners with opportunities of further overseas study. All non-shanghai contestants who have entered the final will be provided one person accommodation and catering by the organizing committee during the final.

Awards and Bonuses
* Golden prize: RMB 20,000.00 or scholarship for overseas study by corresponding university;
* Silver prize: RMB 10,000.00
* Bronze prize: RMB 5,000.00
* Excellence prize: RMB 1,000.00

1. Schedule
2. Deadline for effect drawing: December 20th, 2008 (valid according to local post mark);
3. Issue notice of entrance: early January of 2009;
4. Competition date: refer to notice of entrance;
5. Final: April or May 2009 (refer to notice of final entrance)

The competition will be recorded by television, the works entered the final will be edited into books. What’s more, the event will be broadcast in major fashion channels, China Textile News, China Fashion Weekly, Fashion Times, Shanghai Fashion Monthly, www.cnfashon.net and other grand fashion media will report it throughout the event.

 

（“China Cup” International Fashion Design Contest Organizing Committee reserves the right of final explanation about this notice.）

Shanghai Garment Trade Association
“China Cup” International Fashion Design Contest Organizing Committee
September, 2008

The organizing committee is
Telephone: 021-62362093,021-62362310
Fax: 021-62361498
E-mail：designer@cnfashion.net