“Whatever She Wears, Ordinary People Will Imitate” Peng Liyuan poses with Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who, like Peng, is wearing clothing which prominently features traditional Chinese elements. (Daily Mail) After China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan sparked an online fashion frenzy during her inaugural overseas trip to Moscow in March, both Chinese and foreign…
Month: March 2019
Chinese Models Capture Street Style Spotlight At Paris Fashion Week
Top Chinese models Sui He (L) and Liu Wen (R) at Paris Fashion Week. (Tommy Ton/Style.com) Paris Fashion Week is a street style photographer mecca, with an overwhelming array of camera-ready fashionistas to provide months worth of bloggable images. Roaming the streets this year were China’s top models, whose fashion-forward looks caught the eye of…
Ralph Lauren Turns to Online Commerce to Sell High-priced Items in China
Led by CEO Patrice Louvet, the American heritage luxury brand Ralph Lauren has recently shifted its business focus to the Chinese market as sales in other regions continue to falter. The pillar of Louvet’s China plan is a comprehensive digital, social media, and influencer marketing strategy that utilizes the evolution of the country’s online commerce market. Ralph…
Chinese Fashion Designers Celebrate the Year of the Rooster in Style
The past year has been full of milestones for Chinese fashion design. The lifestyle brand Opening Ceremony declared the year of 2016 as the Year of China to promote designs created by emerging Chinese designers. The daughter of Donald Trump wore outfits by Taoray Wang, a Chinese designer brand during her father’s debate and inauguration…
Liu Wen Spotlights Rise Of The Chinese Supermodel With ‘Highest-Paid’ List Ranking
In an unsurprising development for the global fashion industry, Chinese supermodel Liu Wen (刘雯) has become the first Asian model to make Forbes’ annual list of the highest-paid models worldwide—and she certainly won’t be the last. Raking in US$4.3 million, the 25-year-old is the fifth highest-paid model in the world after meeting with rapidly growing…
Chinese Menswear Designers Turn To Their Roots
A look from Sankuanz’s F/W 2014 collection at Shanghai Fashion Week. At the F/W 2014 Shanghai Fashion Week in April, a pollution mask printed with black and white geometric patterns was given to audience members after the runway show for menswear brand Blackgateone. The disturbing little gift imagined by Blackgateone’s artistic director Hadas Zucker reminded…
Can Victoria’s Secret Win Over Chinese Consumers?
Remember when Kendall Jenner’s phoenix wings were mocked on the Chinese internet for being tacky? Just two months after that controversial Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the brand opened its first fully-stocked store in Shanghai, and Chinese shoppers would likely find it to be considerably more refined—no dragon wraps here. Located on Shanghai’s upscale Huaihai road with neighbors like…
The 10 Cosmetics Brands that Dominated China in 2017
While a Hermès handbag or a pair of Christian Louboutin heels might require some serious saving, a Chanel lipstick lets a woman experience luxury with a lot less expense. And luxury cosmetic lines are lucrative in and of themselves, even without taking into account their power in establishing a relationship between a brand and a younger…
Shanghai Fashion Week Steps up Its Game in Business Arena
Lorenzo Hadar of H. Lorenzo at Shanghai Fashion Week’s showroom Mode Shanghai. (Courtesy Photo) As a platform both for showcasing both Chinese and international design talent, Shanghai Fashion Week beefed up its business credentials this season with an increasingly high-caliber list of both international and domestic buyers at its runway shows and growing collection of…
Bagism Exhibition Merges Chinese Art With 400 Years of Designer Handbags at Shanghai’s K11 Mall
The intersection of art and fashion is no stranger to China’s malls, but never before has Shanghai’s K11 Art Mall married the two in its Chi Art Space. K11 founder Adrian Cheng debuted this event concept with “Bagism,” an exhibition that introduces 400 years of high-end handbags alongside contemporary Chinese art. In Bagism, a name…