Chu Yan illustrates the design of Chinese costumes to the audience.[Photo/Chinaculture.org]

As a part of series for Egypt's 2019 China Tourism and Culture Week, the Chinese Cultural Center in Cairo hosted a lecture on classic styles and fashion of Chinese costumes on June 29.

After the beginning of the lecture, Chu Yan, the founder of her own fashion brand, reviewed the costumes of different periods in China over more than a thousand years, and introduced the long history of costume culture of China. "In recent years, while pursuing fashion trends, Chinese people have begun to pay more attention to the traditional cultural elements of clothing," Chu said, "and clothing manufacturers have started looking for natural Chinese dyes." These changes in the fashion world reflect the new idea that China pays attention to the organic combination of traditional culture and fashion elements.