Good news for the beginning of 2021: Shenzhen ranks among the top six fashion capitals in the world, and surpasses Tokyo to rank fourth! This is the news from the opening ceremony of the 6th China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival held on January 1, 2021. The global fashion city index was released in Shenzhen for the fourth time. The index is jointly organized by Shenzhen Fashion Designers Association and China Textile. It is jointly developed by the Institute of Fashion Education, Shenzhen Oufang Garment Research Institute and many other institutions.
Shenzhen's ranking rises, changing the global fashion landscape
The Global Fashion City Index is the industry's first digital tool for judging and researching global regional fashion capacity building. Based on the previous three editions, this Fashion City Index has more detailed data, more professional research, and more scientific tools. The international image index has been upgraded to An international leading indicator, a panoramic and three-dimensional display of the coordinates of the global urban fashion industry.
This global fashion city index has established a number of index systems such as industrial quality index, international image index, fashion environment index, public service index, innovation vitality index in terms of compilation principles, generation paths, algorithm systems and index selection. Guided by the evaluation and analysis model, it deeply collects the annual index data of global fashion cities to form systematic evaluation results. In the end, 20 shortlisted cities were selected for evaluation on a global scale. In terms of spatial distribution, they involved 5 continents and 15 countries and regions. These 20 city samples basically represented the fashion development in different regions around the world.
The published results show that the ranking of the shortlisted cities is Paris, New York, London, Shenzhen, Milan, Shanghai, Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Sydney, Berlin, Seoul, Moscow, Toronto, Barcelona, Rome, Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro. Shenzhen surpassed Tokyo to rank fourth, and Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing ranked among the top ten in the list of global fashion cities for three consecutive times, forming a fashionable golden triangle of "Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing".