“Made in China” is having its moment now—it’s a fashionable one.
The story of Chinese fashion began in 2011 when Feiyue and Huili, both Chinese sports shoe brands（品牌）, suddenly got international attention.Their products were seen all over the world.Chinese sportswear brand Li Ning was at the New York Fashion Week in September, 2018.They showed their new designs—sweaters and jackets with Chinese characters.
Shaun Rein, managing director of China Market Research Group, said that the latest Chinese brands no longer catch customers’ eye by low price.He told CNN, “They are sure that they can go head to head（正面交锋）with foreign brands.”
Maybe it is because China’s young people are now more confident about their own culture.They don’t show immediate interest in western culture any more.
“Today’s young people in China are crazy about Chinese cultural elements（元素）,” Jin Qu, the manager a clothing shopping website, said at a cultural festival in 2018. “They like these elements printed on their clothes, even the brand picture of Laoganma in China, which was once seen as outside of fashion.But now young people are proud of these Chinese symbols.”
In fact, many stars in the West are now interested Chinese cultural elements in fashion. Rihanna, a US singer, for example, wore a Chinese red dress to the 2015 Met Gala in New York.The dress was designed and made by Chinese designer Guo Pei.
“We have to move from make creating,” Chinese-American designer Aric Chen once told The New York Times.“We want to replace the words Made in China with Designed in China.”
【小题1】The new designs of Li Ning Company in September, 2018 were _________.| A．coats and scarves in Chinese red |
| B．sweaters and jackets with English words |
| C．coats and scarves with American symbols |
| D．sweaters and jackets with Chinese characters |
| A．low price | B．cultural elements | C．new designs | D．famous designers |
| A．today’s young people in China | B．the workers in Jin Qu's shop |
| C．some famous stars in the West | D．directors of some Chinese companies |
| A．A US singer wore a Chinese red dress to the 2015 Met Gala made by an American designer. |
| B．The Chinese young people show more interest in Chinese culture. |
| C．No one knows about Feiyue or Huili in the West. |
| D．We have to move from creating to making. |
| A．a science magazine | B．a celebrity poster |
| C．an ad about fashion | D．a report about Chinese fashion |
