The international event “World Chinese Clothes Congress”, initiated by the Hubei Chinese Clothes Culture Association, Hubei People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Wuhan Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, was held grandly at Wuhan Yellow Crane  Tower from November 7th to November 8th, 2020. Professor Tao Hui, dean of the School of Fashion, was invited to participate in the “Forum of Experts of Chinese Clothes Culture” and delivered a keynote speech entitled “the inclusiveness and innovation of Chinese traditional clothing culture”.

As part of the "World Chinese Clothes Congress", the "Chinese Clothes Culture Celebrities Forum" featured scholars and professionals in the industry from Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Wuhan. They gathered together to discuss topics related to the inheritance and innovation of Chinese national clothing culture. Professor Tao Hui said in his keynote speech that at present, the number of the global Chinese clothing culture associations has grown to more than 2000, and it is estimated that the consumer population of the national Chinese clothing market has exceeded 2 million, and the total scale of the industry is 1.09 billion. The School of Fashion has always attached great importance to the research and innovation of traditional fashion culture and especially in the inheritance and development of traditional costume culture and the integration with big data, fashion and intelligentization. We have done a lot of exploration and research work and achieved remarkable results.

Meanwhile, international students also took part in this activity. Our university will actively promote the inheritance and revival of Chinese traditional costumes and skillfully put traditional cultural elements into international education. At the same time, it is advocated that foreign students should learn more about traditional Chinese costumes and culture, pay attention to the publicity and promotion of Chinese culture, comprehend dress etiquette and show traditional etiquette culture in important occasions such as traditional festivals, important celebrations, important cultural exchange activities, to enhance cultural confidence and promote world cultural exchange and integration.