The word “Cheongsam” has been synonymous with the long dress worn by both men and women in Southern China as well as in many parts of Southeast Asia. Cheongsam represents an important visual element that narrates the nuance of the changing aesthetics of this significant female dress, as it mirrors the long-standing essence of the Chinese Culture. It emphasises the female form with its understated elegance, allowing social and even personal narratives to shine through. To promote cheongsam as a timeless fashion classic, the Fashion Archive of Hong Kong Design Institute held the exhibition “An Alluring Inheritance of Beauty: Chinese Cheongsam”, showcasing designs from a carefully curated selection of keen collectors, including the China National Silk Museum, Mr. Yan Ka-man, a traditional Shanghai-style cheongsam master tailor based in Hong Kong, and various contemporary fashion designers, celebrities and students.

Highlights of the show:

• Over 40 historical and contemporary designs were exhibited
• Collaborated with the China National Silk Museum to showcase over-a-century-old works in digital format for the first time
• Displayed the designs from celebrated designers and renowned brands including Vivienne Tam, Barney Cheng, and Shanghai Tang

Exhibition Period: 27 Sept 2022 to 27 Feb 2023

The "0+ Fashion Exhibition" was created to address the issue of immense textile wastage.
It aims to raise public awareness of sustainable fabrics and fashion design by showcasing
cutting-edge concepts, stories and practices in zero-waste fabric utilisation and zero-
waste paper pattern making. As an educational institution, HKDI is committed to
collaborating with the industry to educate the next generation on how to prioritise the use
of eco-friendly textiles and pre-calculation of fabric consumption in the design and
production process to significantly reduce resource wastage. Zero-waste pattern making
is a pattern design technique that utilises puzzle-style cutting to eliminate fabric waste
during both the design and cutting stages, achieving a 100% fabric utilisation rate. The
"0+ Fashion Exhibition" marks a new chapter for this technique, fusing traditional
techniques with the advanced capabilities of CLO 3D digital software, allowing the
audience to experience the unique vision of young student designers in zero-waste
fashion design and their transition fluidly between the physical and the virtual realms.

From the simple and understated to the lavish and opulent, this exhibition celebrates the
boundless potential of fashion design, striking a balance between aesthetic appeal and
environmental responsibility. It is undoubtedly a dual feast for the senses and the soul,
guiding us on a journey to explore the sustainable future of fashion. Let us witness the
green transformation of the fashion industry and usher in a new era of sustainable
development!

“0+ Fashion Exhibition: Embracing Zero Waste Design in the Digital Age ”

Exhibition Period: 11 July to 29 Nov 2024
Opening Hours: 10am - 12pm and 2pm - 5pm (Closed on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays)
Venue: A707, HKDI

UCA SHAPE Fashion Promotion Imaging students showcase their Work in Progress and fluid approach to Fashion Image Making with an online exhibition, curated by UCA lecturers Kary Kwok & Layla Sailor. 

In the Making explores the unpicking, interruption and deconstruction of the fashion image with a focus on collaboration and creativity.  Students explore their individual concepts in a myriad of forms over the one year Top Up Degree, looking in and out of fashion for inspiration. 
The resulting work is a kaleidoscope of thought provoking ideas and concept exploration.

“IN THE MAKING ” Exhibition
Exhibition period: 6 -17 Jul 2020
Platform: Fashion Archive Facebook and Instagram

Mastering the art of transforming the humble white jacket into an imperfect capsule item of one’s wardrobe, this exhibition depicts the poetic union of vision and techniques through using sculptured creativity. Jackets are still a closet must-have but they have taken on a game-changing deconstructive adventure that brings shocking elegance to a formerly sturdy essential for work, play and leisure alike. Are you ready to up your game to join the White Project?

“White Project ” Exhibition
Exhibition Period: 23 Sep 2019 to 1 Nov 2019
Opening Hours: 10am - 12pm and 2pm - 5pm (Closed on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays)
Venue: A707, HKDI

The “DDDenim Exhibition” co-organised by HKDI Fashion Archive and veteran culturalists Mr Peter Wong and Mr Ching Siu Wai, showcases the history of denim and its influence on our culture and lifestyle. The exhibition features exclusive denim collections from celebrities and international designer brands from HKDI Fashion Archive, and creative denim artwork by young Hong Kong designers, to create a unique denim style and culture exhibition. During the opening party held on 22 March 2019, Ms Josie Ho, singer and actress, shared her valuable ideas on Denim culture, and 8 adorable kids modelled at the “HKDI Fashion Archive x ROOKIE SS19 Levi’s Kidswear Fashion Show”.

The "DDDenim" Life & Style Exhibition is a comprehensive and unique denim style and cultural exhibition that you can understand the history of denim, cultural and creative lifestyle works, celebrities’ denim collections and sharing, the new interpretations of denim by Hong Kong young creatives, and the collection of denim clothing in Fashion Archive.

Fashi6n Exhibition presents a fine selection of award-winning student works from the six programmes of the Department of Fashion and Image Design during 2017-18.

Exhibits spans across Fashion Design, Fashion Design Menswear, Fashion Image Design, Costume Design for Performance, Fashion Branding and Buying and Fashion Media Design. These winning works demonstrated a wide range of distinctive and creative ideas in various open competitions with remarkable awards and praises.

“Fashi6n” Exhibition
Exhibition Period: 19 Oct to 7 Dec 2018
Opening Hours: 10am - 12pm and 2pm - 5pm
Venue: A707, HKDI

The HKDI Fashion Archive x Redress Design Award 2018 Fashion Academy is a sustainable fashion event for students and emerging designers. Through an afternoon of hands-on workshops and talks from industry professionals, students obtained better understanding in sustainable fashion, various sustainable fashion design techniques and repair methods. They also got access to pieces from HKDI’s Fashion Archive up-close to explore sustainable fashion from past, present and future.

Presenters:

Ryan Wong (Business Development Manager, HKRITA)
Hanna Hallin (Sustainability Manager, Sales Market Greater China, H&M)
Kay Liu (Education Director, Redress)
Nancy Tong (Education Associate, Redress)
Gao Qingzi (Redress Design Award Alumni)
Cassandra Ng (Senior Lecturer, Department of Fashion & Image Design, HKDI)
Ho Ho Tak (Lecturer, Department of Fashion & Image Design, HKDI)

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Prof Julian Roberts is a British fashion designer and academic, currently tenured as MA Textiles Professor at the Royal College of Art in London UK. Between 1996 and 2008, Prof Julian Roberts had worked as a practicing fashion designer showing 13 collections under his own labels at London and Paris Fashion Weeks. He has shown his professional fashion and video work in 12 countries, and received the coveted ‘New Generation Award’ from the British Fashion Council 5 times.

Over the past 15 years, Prof Julian Roberts has developed his own internationally recognized method of garment construction called ‘Subtraction Cutting’ which has been shown widely to audiences at London Fashion Week, published as a commercial book, and disseminated widely via the internet as a free publication.  His cutting techniques have been tested across the world at over 20 universities in the UK, and demonstrated live in front of audiences, including students, professionals and the public of all ages in over 17 countries across 6 continents, including: Canada, Mexico, Australia, USA, Russia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, China, Nigeria, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and France.

During the 2 days’ workshop, students learnt the method of hollow construction that encourages lateral thinking, experimentation and risk taking, with end results that can be used variously to make men’s and women’s fashion garments, accessories, and interior/exterior design products.

On entering the World of FASHIONLUTION, fashion enthusiasts and academics alike are able to look forward to an historical array of fashion apparel, accessories and print that depicts from by-gone Victoria era right up to the end of the last century.

FASHIONLUTION: Fashion + Evolution aims to bring a fresh perspective to fashion history appreciation through allowing the visitors to embrace and participate, in person and via technology, the abstracts of lost time, so to trigger various dimensions of emotions; may it be nostalgia, sparks of inspirations or just pure enjoyment.

Fashion is perceived as a visual art of immerse creativity, often challenged to accommodate to the human body. Although it is connected to the impulses of the moment, it is also a strong force of continuity. Fashion’s willingness to evolve is part of what makes it modern and it is this aspect that has drawn humans to fashion as a paradigm of innovation. But fashion also has a powerful connection to past eras, mementoes, culture, values and history.

“FASHIONLUTION” Exhibition
Exhibition Period: 26 Sep to 31 Jul 2018
Opening Hours: 10am - 12pm and 2pm - 5pm
Venue: A707, HKDI