At a recent fashion industry "brainstorming seminar," Hou noted that fashion designers in Taiwan generally glean ideas from foreign shows, but neglect the background supporting the design as well as its overall structure. As a result, they come up with no innovations of their own and few buy their products.
擔任此次「時尚人才創意激盪研習營」講師的侯芷園表示，國內的服裝設計師多半參考國外秀場照片作為下一季設計重點，卻忽略支持這款設計的背景與主題結構，因而無法創新變化，只能吸引小眾購買。