In the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Chinese athlete Han Xiaopeng won the gold medal in freestyle skiing men’s air skills with 250.77 points 16 years ago.

At that time, Han Dongpeng was wearing a race suit designed and developed by Shanghai Garment Group. This “champion suit” was later collected by the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The match clothes are one of the keys for athletes to win the competition. The “battle clothes” Han Xiaopeng wore when winning the championship have a strong sense of science and technology and Chinese style.

In order to keep athletes warm in extremely cold weather and carry out various difficult skill movements without restraint, the competition clothes adopt the latest developed high-tech fabrics at that time, and integrate Chinese cultural elements such as Chinese brocade and dragon and phoenix patterns into the placket, collar and other parts.

This classic down garment, together with other high gloss products in the history of Shanghai Garment Group, is reproduced and collected in the exhibition hall of the group.

T&A, a brand of Shanghai Garment Group, recently launched the new Chinese New Year clothes series in 2022.

These New Year clothes are matched with festive colors, integrating jacquard, flocking, brocade weaving, flower and bird embroidery and Chinese classical patterns. 

Combined with the design and technology of traditional Chinese clothing, the details such as placket, stand collar and Suzhou embroidery pattern are supplemented by modification, and the design highlights of new Chinese style are added.

So that each set of New Year clothes can not only show the beauty of Chinese traditional clothes, but also meet the aesthetic needs of modern people. 

T&A also brings women’s wear made of gauze. T&A this time adopted very old Chinese traditional weaving technology, which is appeared as early as the late Neolithic age more than 6,000 years ago. It was gradually developed in the Shang (1600-1046 BC) and Zhou (1046-771 BC) dynasties. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was widely used in the costumes of ancient emperors and dignitaries in the imperial court.

T&A merged the latest technology with the wisdom of the ancient Chinese method, and uses more comfortable, environmental friendly and sustainable cotton materials for processing and production, so as to make the clothing fabric soft and breathable.

Editor：Li Xinran Shanghai Daily