Beneath the crisp September skies of Paris, the 3rd Sino-French Fashion & Culture Festival concluded on a note of inspiration and innovation, unfolding from September 29 to October 6, 2025. Framed by the annual theme “Integration and Transcendence” and held during the Sino-French Year of Cultural Tourism, the festival reimagined fashion as a dynamic force—a living language of cultural exchange and creative collaboration.
For decades, the partnership between China and France has been characterized by depth, dialogue, and a commitment to mutual enrichment. Building on this legacy, the festival created a space where fashion became both medium and message—a bridge linking heritage with tomorrow. Through a thoughtfully curated program of runway showcases, thematic exhibitions, expert-led forums, and curated receptions, the event wove together the distinct yet complementary creative spirits of both nations.
Beyond aesthetics, the festival served as a laboratory of ideas—a place where designers, thinkers, and creators explored how fashion can transcend borders, foster understanding, and drive meaningful innovation. In blending Eastern sensibility with Western flair, tradition with transformation, the festival not only celebrated what fashion is, but also illuminated what it can become: a canvas for cultural connection and a catalyst for a shared creative future.
Over 20 Major Brands
Runway Show
La Koradior
La Koradior transforms the phalaenopsis orchid into an elegant symbol of femininity, where a subtle undercurrent of vitality and the gentle unfurling of petals echo the language of the body, sculpting a statuesque silhouette. The artisan’s needle and thread act as sensitive conduits, capturing the delicate romantic sensibilities of the woman. Draping and pleating are shaped by the contours of her form, carving timeless treasures. The brand’s signature hue, La-purple, draws from the noble lineage of royalty—a sacred, refined, and dignified color. This shade transforms each piece into a projection of the wearer’s identity, extending the multifaceted expressions and life aesthetics of the modern woman, guiding her toward a self-defined sense of value.
China Good Fashion Design
China Good Fashion Design is a year-round, comprehensive design industry chain initiative launched by the China National Garment Association. This multi-faceted program integrates exhibitions/showrooms, competitions, fashion shows, salons, matchmaking events, and public welfare activities, serving as a dynamic platform for design enterprises and designers to facilitate market conversion and collaboration. It provides strong support for outstanding designers to achieve commercial success and gain international exposure, while stimulating global attention to the brand upgrading of China’s textile and apparel industry. Additionally, it empowers industrial clusters by enhancing their design capabilities and overall industry standards.
Psalter诗篇
Founded in 2005, PSALTER’s brand spirit is to be loyal to oneself and breaking traditions, redefining the preppy style. Thoughtful details, exquisite fabrics, and experimental tailoring are harmoniously juxtaposed. Beneath the image of a stylish, intelligent, and literary woman lies PSALTER’s undefined stylistic instinct.Beneath the image of a stylish, intelligent, and literary woman lies PSALTER’s undefined stylistic instinct. Within the framework of preppy style, PSALTER breaks conventions, endowing classic pieces with new fashion significance through deconstruction, reorganization, and mixing. The brand seeks a balance between rationality and sensibility, order and freedom, shaping the image of contemporary intellectuals with a pioneering consciousness through exquisite fabrics, precise tailoring, and unique details.
Sichuan Intangible Cultural Heritage：A Hundred Cities, A Hundred Crafts.Yanbian. Lisu Ethnic Clothing
This new collection emerges from a collaboration between Lisu heritage artisans and contemporary designers. It reimagines traditional motifs—the sunflower symbol, layered skirt forms, cross-stitch details from “Laixian” bags—within a modern sartorial language. Fire-grass cloth is reinvented; the translated into wearable art. This is not costume: it is a culture reawakened. Lisu clothing is a living repository of culture: it conveys rites, history, and identity. It carries the people ’ s spiritual beliefs, aesthetic ideals,connection to nature, and shared memory—a true wearable epic. Recognized in 2023 as part of Sichuan’s intangible cultural heritage, Lisu clothing was included in the 2024 “Sichuan ICH· Arts Across Cities” program.
INCLOVER
At this season’s Paris Fashion Week InClover Couture presented its latest haute couture collection at the China Cultural Center in Paris- a celebration of heritage, artistry, and modern elegance. InClover Couture is Kazakhstan’s only haute couture fashion house with Parisian couture standards. InClover Couture is a fashion house where femininity becomes strength and every gown gives you the freedom to be yourself in the moment. The name InClover symbolizes prosperity and refined luck: to be in clover – to live in pleasure. The brand’s philosophy is to create a woman who is confident, elegant, and sophisticated. The French haute couture brand INCLOVER is honored to join this China-France Fashion Week. Its designer, Gaziza Shabdarbayeva, excels at creating “wearable artworks.” Her designs ingeniously integrate ethnic cultural roots with the language of Parisian haute couture, with each gown showcasing a luxurious beauty uniquely imbued with French elegance.
Presentation
Fashion Technology Exhibition
At the intersection of haute couture and cutting-edge innovation, the Fashion Technology Exhibition unveiled a compelling vision for the industry’s future. A central highlight was the seamless integration of Rokid AR Glasses, which transformed the viewing experience by overlaying digital garments, intricate design histories, and animated fabric textures onto live models, creating a captivating layered narrative. This digital immersion was physically echoed by the EngineAI humanoid robot, which glided down the runway adorned with luxurious accessories from the historic French house of Petrusse. The exquisite scarves, with their iconic prints and silken flow, draped over the robot’s precise movements, presented a striking dialogue between timeless artisan craftsmanship and robotic precision. Together, this triad demonstrated a harmonious ecosystem where augmented reality enriches perception, intelligent automation redefines presentation, and heritage brands like Petrusse anchor the spectacle in tangible, beautiful artistry.
Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Day
Forging a super IP for Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Day in France, a powerful convergence of ancient craft and modern design is taking shape. This vision is realized through groundbreaking collaborations like the “Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains” collection, where kesi silk tapestry meets haute couture, and the sculptural “Inquiring of Zen in Wood Grain” gown, which transforms nanmu wood into frozen drapery. The initiative extends from Zhang Yahua’s philosophically-driven Shanghai-style fashions to regal formalwear adorned with gold embroidery, and into the olfactory realm with scent diffusers using historic “Yunzi” stones and perfumes evoking ink-wash poetry. Each piece translates a profound heritage narrative into a contemporary luxury object, collectively building an immersive and desirable cultural legacy for the world.
Ivette Bianchi
The designer of the fashion brand Ivette Bianchi, Ivet Apostolova, winner of the most prestigious fashion award in Bulgaria “Golden Needle” in the category “Best Young Designer” for 2024, made a photo shoot with her latest collection “Romance Written in Black and White”. The collection is inspired by French chic and romance as we know it from black and white films. Dresses are created with attention to every detail and the use of the highest quality materials are like love letters written with silk threads, where every detail tells about eternal passions and dreams born under the Parisian sky. Every design element – from fine lace to contemporary silhouettes – is carefully selected to create harmony between the past and the present. “Romance Painted in Black and White” is not just a fashion collection, but a real work of art that combines classic elegance with the modern zeitgeist.
ZAADY
"My passion for fashion runs deep. It is through an alternative spirit and a distinctive stylistic approach that I masterfully integrate metropolitan 'street' elements into my creative work." This is not merely a design statement for ZAADY, but a creative philosophy ingrained in its very DNA. Here, "alternative" transcends mere nonconformity - it represents a conscious refusal to follow trends, an elegant rebellion against conventional aesthetics norms. Meanwhile, "street" is no longer a literal space but is distilled into an untamed, vital, raw energy. These creations transcend the realm of mere clothing; they are externalizations of the wearer's inners personasophistication displayed by street-style icons under the spotlight. It is precisely such a vanguard that ZAADY cultivates: individuals who navigate seamlessly between diverse scenarios with confidence, sharpness and undeniable style.
Looks
La Koradior - Sino-French Paris Fashion Week 2025
China Good Fashion Design - Sino-French Paris Fashion Week 2025
Psalter 诗篇 - Sino-French Paris Fashion Week 2025
INCLOVER - Sino-French Paris Fashion Week 2025
Sichuan Intangible Cultural Heritage ：A Hundred Cities, A Hundred Crafts.Yanbian. Lisu Ethnic Clothing - Sino-French Paris Fashion Week 2025
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Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Day
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