Taipei Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2023 | Presenting Taiwan’s traditional arts, crafts, and sustainability to the world through fashion
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- 07 Apr 2023
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On March 22, the Taipei Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2023 kicked off with a bang.
The venue for the opening show was in front of the “Nankunshen Daitian” Temple located in Beimen District, Tainan City; one of the oldest and most historically important temples in Taiwan with a history of over 300 years. The gracefully illuminated “Nankunshen Daitian” Temple in the calm serenity of the Tainan night heightened the anticipation of the upcoming show as well as the excitement of the audience.
Culture and fashion fused in the opening show
Taipei Fashion Week began in 2018, and each season’s opening show is based on a different theme. The theme for this year’s opening show was “CrossLab: Dialogue Between Traditional Performance, Craftsmanship, and Fashion,” and fashion designers presented innovative designs that fused the inherited culture of Taiwan.
Minister of Culture Culture Minister – Mr. Shin Che（史哲）said he hopes that the fusion of Taiwan’s traditional art and culture, which has been handed down for more than 100 years with modern fashion will help to promote Taiwan’s cultural content to the world and bring Taiwan’s designer clothing into the everyday sphere of the general public.
At the opening show, a member of the J-Pop group EXILE and Taiwanese top model Lin Chi-ling’s husband, AKIRA appeared as a VIP guest. In his opening remarks, AKIRA said that we sometimes hold events in historical buildings such as Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, Japan, but he has never participated in such an event in Tainan before, so it was a great honor to be a part of it and the scale of the event is very spectacular. In the interview that followed, he reiterated that Tainan is a special place for him since Tainan is his wife’s hometown, it is like his second home as well.
The opening show featured seven fashion designers and seven traditional artisans, each presenting ten garments, with background music of contemporary electronic music mixed with traditional lion dance performance and traditional music.
The first show was a collaboration between designer BOB JIAN, who specializes in stage costumes and high-end custom-made pieces, and the Taiwanese folkloric dance performance group “The Eight Generals (Bajiajiang),” Zhen Shou Temple Wu Jing Tang Folk Parade Club. The first half of the show featured powerful dances and performances by the traditional “The Eight Generals,” while the second half featured models sashaying through the performers’ dances to showcase their collection. Read More…
