Fashion Insiders Foresee Chinese Designers Influencing Global Trends In Coming Years
Shanghai Tang has gone global, but its designs have yet to make a splash in Western markets
We’ve covered the gradual appearance of Chinese design cues in recent collections by top Western fashion and luxury houses, but what’s the status of China’s home-grown designers? When will we see them on the global stage?
Though top fashion schools in New York and London are churning out design graduates in ever-greater numbers, and Chinese fashion brands like Shanghai Tang and JNBY are expanding into more international markets, as Jill Spalding of Vogue Living told Forbes editor Russell Flannery in an interview last week in Shanghai, the fashion world is still waiting for “China’s Karl Lagerfeld” to emerge and take Chinese fashion global.
From the interview (emphasis ours):