The Second Fashion Curating Youth Forum took place at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology on Oct 15 as a part of its 19th Science Art Fashion Festival.

Centered on the theme of "fashion and technology", the forum featured keynote speeches and dialogues by practitioners and curators from the fields of fashion, design and art curation.

The opening ceremony was hosted by professor from the institute Tian Hui, with speeches given by deputy head of the institute Zou You and director-in-chief of Museum & Art News She Yanlong, as well as a video speech by Sarah Cheang, head of program in History of Design at the Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom.

According to Zou, the Ethnic Costume Museum of the institute provides a platform for the research and exchange of China's clothing culture. The forum has invited active young curators, offering a valuable opportunity for the museum to explore the forward-looking fashion curation methods.

After the opening ceremony, curators, scholars and experts from museums and art schools around China joined in panel discussions. The topics range from research fields, including anthropology, communication and design studies, to the relations among fashion, society and technology.

The forum was jointly hosted by the institute, Museum & Art News, and Beijing Museum Society. The livestream on the official online account of Museum & Art News garnered more than 50,000 views.