Culture is far less pure than we usually assume, our biggest concern was on how to get Kitenge clothes that represented our culture. Kitenge (Vitenge is the Swahili plural) is made of cotton fabric with wax print. It is very popular in East Africa. The beauty of Kitenge is that it is known as a textile that tells stories. The Kitenge always has a way of representing a cultural background, a social position, or just a mood and a feeling.
文化远没有我们通常认为的那么纯正，我们最大的担忧是如何获得代表我们文化的Kitenge服装。Kitenge（Vitenge是斯瓦希里语的复数形式）是由棉织物制成的，带有蜡质印花。它在东非非常受欢迎。Kitenge的美丽之处在于它是一种能讲述故事的纺织品。Kitenge总是有一种代表文化背景，社会地位或者只是一种情绪和感觉的方式。
In 2018, we decided to start a designing company called Cultural Couture, after doing our research on how we can get these kind of clothes we realized that through the One Belt One Road initiation the Kitenge fabric is now being imported in China from East Africa and many sellers that are from Kenya and Tanzania specifically they reside in Guangzhou. So now there is a way to easily get the fabric and this is mainly possible because of the One Belt One Road.
2018年，我们决定成立一家名为Cultural Couture的设计公司，在对如何获得这种衣服进行了研究之后，我们意识到通过One Belt One Road的启动，Kitenge面料现在已从中国从东非和中国进口。许多来自肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的卖家特别是居住在广州。因此，现在有一种方法可以轻松获取面料，这主要是因为“一带一路”。
We organized a team of five members Janet, Jesca, Emily, Dayness and Sandy. Janet receives clients and consults them on what design they want and suggest designs that are on fashion and will match with the clients body so that they may look smart and good, then Jesca takes measurements of the clients and create a pattern for the clients design and sews the clothes while Emily handles the packaging and making sure that all goods are received to the clients on time, Sandy is the marketing manager and most of the times deals with advertisement and bringing more clients to the company and finally Dayness is the one handling all the financing by securing them for the long term plans. As our name suggests our focus is to provide Culture wear and accessories.
我们组织了一个由五个成员珍妮特，杰斯卡，艾米丽，戴尼斯和桑迪组成的团队。珍妮特（Janet）接待客户并就他们想要什么设计向他们进行咨询，并提出与客户身体相匹配的时尚设计，以使它们看起来既聪明又好，然后杰斯卡（Jesca）对客户进行测量并为客户设计模式并在缝制衣服的同时，艾米丽（Emily）处理包装并确保将所有货物按时送到客户手中，桑迪（Sandy）是营销经理，大多数时候处理广告并为公司带来更多客户，最后，迪尼斯（Dayness）负责处理所有通过确保长期计划获得资金。顾名思义，我们的重点是提供文化服装和配件。
Most women use Kitenge to tailor their own clothes or they wear it as a sarong wrapped around the waist in Africa. Today, it is used by many especially designers to make anything from clothes, tablecloths to curtains and many more. We use this beautiful fabric for making dresses, trousers, shirts and t-shirts for both male and female, purses and bags especially in interior wise and exterior wise as well as the same Kitenge we use to make pillow cases and table clothes and also bags that serve as packaging for our clients.
在非洲，大多数女性都使用Kitenge来定制自己的衣服，或者将它们像布裙一样裹在腰间。如今，它被许多特别的设计师用来制造从衣服，桌布到窗帘等等的任何东西。我们使用这种漂亮的织物制作男女装的礼服，裤子，衬衫和T恤，钱包和包包，尤其是内部和外部的包包以及用于制作枕头套和餐桌衣服以及包包的相同Kitenge 为我们的客户提供包装。
Culture Couture is a store that caters to the African and Chinese Kitenge fashion in China. We design clothes that match our clients’ desires, we design unique clothes that are trendy and fashionable. As our name suggests our focus is to provide culture wear apparel, accessories and position ourselves as the top retail store servicing this particular market. Cultural Couture was established mainly with the intention to create a clothing style that caters to the apparel needed by the Urban Africa-Chinese students and earn at least 80% market share and become the number one ethnic western wear apparel store in Wenzhou Chashan and achieve a recognized brand name in the local community.
文化时装专卖店专为非洲和中国的Kitenge时尚而设计。我们设计符合客户需求的服装，设计新颖时尚的服装。顾名思义，我们的重点是提供文化服装，配饰，并将自己定位为服务于该特定市场的顶级零售店。成立文化时装公司的主要目的是创造一种能够满足城市非洲裔中国学生所需服装的服装风格，并赢得至少80％的市场份额，并成为温州茶山地区第一大西方民族服装商店，并取得在当地社区公认的品牌名称。
China has been the emerging economic country in the world and through the basic policy of opening-up and this system has strengthened the Belt and Road. The Belt and Road Initiative has opened the way for people to see many opportunities. When we came in China and faced the problem of not having cultural design to wear in different gathering like festivals and dinner parties and sometimes even just casual outings.
中国已经成为世界上新兴的经济大国，并通过对外开放的基本政策加强了“一带一路”。``一带一路''倡议为人们看到许多机会开辟了道路。当我们来到中国时，遇到的问题是没有文化设计可用于节日和晚宴等不同聚会中，有时甚至是休闲郊游。
Our company started with designing different clothes for Africans, different types of clothes especially dresses, t-shirts, handbags, wallets and accessories. We then came up with this idea during 2018 and started to expand to other international students because the demand was high and in 2019, we started to spread this culture down to the Chinese.
我们公司开始为非洲人设计不同的衣服，设计不同类型的衣服，尤其是连衣裙，T恤，手袋，钱包和配饰。然后，我们在2018年提出了这个想法，并由于需求量很大而开始扩展到其他国际学生，并且在2019年，我们开始将这种文化传播给中国人。
The One Belt One Road Initiative bolsters people-to-people connections by cultivating student, expert, and cultural exchanges and tourism, in this way we have the ability to expand our culture and fuse it with the Chinese culture and create more cultural designs.
“一带一路”倡议通过培养学生，专家以及文化交流和旅游来加强人与人之间的联系，通过这种方式，我们有能力扩展我们的文化并将其与中国文化融合并创造更多的文化设计。
We market our products through the celebrities from our school we use them to advertise for the company by wearing the clothes and accessories that were deigned in our company. At the beginning we didn’t have enough capital for us to start advertise everything. We sent the flyers to the people especially at time we are done producing everything and gave out a 20% off discount to the first 50 people who came to our company to design different clothes for different occasions.
我们通过学校里的名人来销售产品，我们使用它们通过穿着公司设计的衣服和配件为公司做广告。最初，我们没有足够的资金来开始做广告。我们将传单发送给人们，尤其是当我们完成所有东西的制作时，并向来我们公司为不同场合设计不同衣服的前50个人提供了20％的折扣。
Since the creation of this company, we have participated in two regional competition, the first one was The Wenzhou City Longman District (High-Tech Zone) The Fourth College Student Entrepreneurship Competition and in this friendly competition we received the third prize. And it elevated us a step forward to the next competition and there our company got a chance to show our products and present a short business proposal to the judges.
自公司成立以来，我们参加了两次区域竞赛，第一场是温州市朗文区（高新区）第四届大学生创业竞赛，在这项友好竞赛中，我们获得了三等奖。它使我们向下一届比赛迈进了一步，在那里我们公司有机会展示我们的产品并向评委提出简短的业务建议。
The One Belt One Road initiation shall not only connect places but also culture and civilization. And it shall not only join economies but also the hearts and minds of all the people in the world.
“一带一路”倡议不仅应连接地方，还应连接文化和文明。它不仅将加入经济，而且将加入世界所有人民的心灵。