The 2025 Spring/Summer Beijing Fashion Week concluded on Tuesday, embracing new consumer trends and creating innovative consumer experiences through various activities. This year's edition, running from Sept. 12 to Sept. 17, featured 74 online and offline events, drawing 297 brands. More than 30 percent of the brands were led by well-established designers and major names in the industry. A key highlight was the "China-Chic Creative Show", which focused on promoting homegrown brands. In addition, the event introduced a digital fashion segment, demonstrating the growing influence of digital technology within the fashion world. The fashion week also featured a forum on China's fashion economy under the theme "AI-driven innovation leads the future". The forum brought together industry leaders, scholars, prominent entrepreneurs, and fashion pioneers to explore how artificial intelligence, driven by new quality productive forces, is unlocking new opportunities for Chinese fashion brands and companies, helping them navigate future development trends. "This year, we introduced a program to support young designers. We aim to foster emerging talent through initiatives that cover everything from lreleases, showcasing, promotion and monetization," said Gu Weida, chairman of the presidium of organizing committee of the Beijing Fashion Week. The event also made its its efforts to turn the rich cultural resources of Yushu Zang Autonomous Prefecture, a city in northwest China's Qinghai Province, into commercial success. Designers and brands from both Beijing and Yushu, inspired by Yushu's cultural assets, collaborated to create collections, which were showcased on the Beijing Fashion Week. "Thanks to two years of continuous collaboration and innovation, the event has significantly elevated Yushu's popularity, helping local apparel companies with high-quality development and boosting the region's culture and tourism industry," said Zhao Liping, deputy head of Culture, Media, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Yushu. The Beijing Fashion Week, launched in 2016, leverages the city's rich historical and cultural heritage along with its international fashion industry resources to promote original design concepts from Chinese brands.
Beijing Fashion Week wraps up, highlighting China-chic, AI-driven innovation
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday that Russia's armed forces continued to strike Ukrainian forces in multiple directions and has taken control of one more settlement in the Donetsk region, while Ukraine, on the same day, reported strikes against several key facilities in Russia.
"As a result of decisive actions, units of the Southern Group of Forces liberated the settlement of Sviato-Pokrovske in the Donetsk region," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Russian troop clusters continued to strike Ukrainian forces in the directions of Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson.
Russian air forces, strike drones, missile units and artillery struck 142 areas of Ukrainian military airport and port infrastructure, strike drone production facilities, energy facilities supporting Ukrainian military operations, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian forces and foreign mercenaries.
Additionally, Russian air defense systems shot down six aerial bombs, one U.S.-made HIMARS rocket, and 472 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in the special military operation zone over the past 24 hours, the ministry added.
On the same day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that to weaken the combat capabilities of the Russian armed forces, Ukrainian forces carried out strikes on several key facilities in Russia.
Two oil storage tanks caught fire at the southern Russian port of Temryuk after a drone attack.
The total fire area is approximately 2,000 square meters. And 70 personnel and 18 pieces of equipment are involved in the firefighting effort.
Temryuk is a major seaport on the Black Sea, vital to Russia's export of oil and petroleum products, and it is also one of the important logistics support hubs for the Russian military.
In addition, Ukrainian forces carried out strikes on the military airport located in Maikop City, claiming that the fire caused had a significant impact on the normal operation of the airport.
It also reported that Ukraine's air force struck the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia's Rostov Oblast using Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, triggering multiple explosions, with the extent of damage still being clarified.
Russia reports multi-directional strikes against Ukraine, Ukraine claims strikes on key facilities in Russia
