Prof. Hui Tao

Prof. Hui Tao

Dean of Fashion School, Wuhan Textile University, China


Professor Hui Tao, Dean of Fashion School, Wuhan Textile University; Director of the National First-class Major of Fashion design; Director of the national excellent sharing course "Garment Pattern Design", engaged to the fashion education over 30 years.

Research field:

Chinese traditional costume culture and creative fashion design

• Fashion sustainability and design education

Teaching course:

• Draping (undergraduate )

• Fashion design(undergraduate)

• Chinese traditional costume culture (postgraduate)

• Fashion sustainability (postgraduate)

Social work:

• Executive Deputy Director of the Clothing Teaching Steering Committee of the Teaching Steering Committee of textile specialty in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education;

• Chairman of the Technical Committee of the China Fashion Association;

• Member of Education Initiatives Sub-committee of International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI);

• Vice director of Smart Clothing Branch of China Ergonomic Society

• Expert of the Committee of Experts of the China Association of Circular Economy(CACE);

• Editorial board for Jiangnan University Journal "Journal of Clothing Research";

Research projects (In recent years):

• Five national and provincial research projects and ten industry projects

• More than 50 academic papers published in academic journals

• Published academic book named "Gender, Apparel,Ethic - Interpretation of Female Apparel Images Based on Gender Perspective"(2018)

• Translation book of " Fashion & Sustainability Design For Change" (2019)

• Published three professional textbooks of "Fashion Draping"(2013,2021,2022)

Awards& Honors:

• Awarded provincial prestigious teacher (2021)

• Excellent teacher award of China Textile and Apparel Council.(2019)

• One second prize of the Hubei Government Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award.(2013)

• Four second prizes of the Teaching Achievement Award of the China Textile and Apparel Council.(2011-2019)