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Word of congratulation
I am most delighted that the 2016 International Fashion Art
Exhibition prepared with the passion and efforts of graduate
students of Korea’s Honggik University and China’s Beijing
Central Arts Academy will be held at the Beijing Central Arts
Academy. I expect this exhibition will provide an opportunity
to share each country’s culture and sentiment and a variety of
ideas on fashion through each other’s work as well as becoming
a venue for encouraging one another.
The theme of this exhibition is “Between 間 ” signifying the
communication of spirit, space, time, and people, and from
this inspiration new interpretations have been made transferring
into inspirational fashion design works, which will be
represented at the exhibition. I would like to applaud those
graduate students who took the center stage in showing the
spirit of challenge and collaborative ability to create incredible
work and exhibit such work in such a meaningful event as this
by putting forth global-wide cooperation through the process
of coming together using your abundant imagination and
creativity as the foundation . I have no doubt the invaluable
experience you have gained through the preparation process
of this exhibition will become the cornerstone in turning you
into a talent that will lead not only the fashion industry of each
country but the entire world of fashion.
Once again, I would like to recognize the hard work of students
who gave full devotion and poured over their sweat and
blood to produce creative and unique pieces of art work. I
wish you success and unimaginable growth.
I wish that both our institutions will build closer ties in the
area of fashion design and hope that we can both go forth into
the world by fostering fashion talents. Again, I congratulate
you on the 2016 International Fashion Art Exhibition.
2016. 12.
Young-Hwan Kim
President of Hongik University.
At this time, I would like to thank all the professors who have
guided the student’s creative idea into an actual art piece and
giving selfless devotion to shepherd this exhibition and also, I
would like to thank the parents of the students who have morally
and materially supported this project as well as all persons
who have gave their undivided assistance.
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