For her recent wave-inspired S/S 14 collection presented at this fall’s Paris Fashion Week, designer Masha Ma teamed up with graphic designer Neville Brody to produce looks featuring geometric motifs in a “meeting point” between visual form and fashion, according to Brody. In a new video interview with Models.com, Ma and Brody discuss their experiences…
Month: March 2019
5 Ways Burberry Beat The China Slowdown With Double-Digit Growth
The Burberry Prorsum womenswear Autumn/Winter 2014 fashion show, which was live-streamed online and heavily promoted on Chinese social media. (Burberry) Although China’s government has announced record-low GDP growth and remains in the midst of an anti-corruption crackdown, British brand Burberry still managed to declare bright China sales growth for its second-half report released today. With a 13…
Balenciaga Sees Big Things In Store For Niche Brands In China
Alexander Wang (L) with Yao Chen (R) at Balenciaga’s Beijing runway show on Thursday. (Weibo/Yao Chen) Alexander Wang led French fashion house Balenciaga’s efforts to ramp up its China presence this week at a star-studded Beijing runway show, exhibition, and party on Thursday night. Despite slowing China growth for luxury giants such as Louis Vuitton…
In Bid for Prominence, China’s Hainan Airlines Taps Laurence Xu to Design New Uniforms
Chinese fashion designer Laurence Xu, who unveiled his latest collection this past week at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, is slated to design the next set of flight attendant uniforms for Hainan Airlines, China’s fourth-largest carrier. Based on the designs of the previous generations, the new “fifth generation” uniforms will incorporate popular Western fashion elements…
These Are the Emerging Chinese Designers Everyone Was Talking about at Shanghai Fashion Week
Shanghai Fashion Week is China’s undisputed champion platform for independent fashion design—particularly with the inception of the Labelhood platform for free-form presentations by emerging designers, now in its third season. This Autumn/Winter 2017 season of Shanghai Fashion Week showed a number of young design talents take major creative leaps, and it likely won’t be long…
Simon Collins: How China Is Reshaping the Fashion World Order
China’s influence on the global luxury and fashion industry is growing rapidly; for proof, look to last winter’s New York Fashion Week. For the first time in its 75-year history, there was a dedicated day featuring Chinese designers and brands, launched by Alibaba’s Tmall in collaboration with the powerhouse Council of Fashion Designers of America…
Shanghai Gears Up For Fashion’s Night Out
An image from last year’s Fashion’s Night Out in Shanghai. (All Things Beautiful) It was created in 2009 by a legion of fashion glitterati to boost the industry during the recession in New York. Now, the late-night cocktails and shopping extravaganza that is Fashion’s Night Out (FNO) has made a proper home in over 20…
China’s Booming Demand for Indie Fashion Isn’t Without Challenges
It has been a week since buyers finished making their rounds at Shanghai Fashion Week’s three major trade shows, but the process for stocking stores for spring/summer 2017 is just getting started. With more buyers than ever coming from mainland China’s second-, third-, and even fourth-tier cities, the market potential is apparent, but for some…
Burberry’s Hong Kong Sales Decline More Than 20 Percent
Click:dog cake topper 4 inch Burberry’s February 2016 womenswear runway show. (Courtesy Photo) Hong Kong’s luxury slump continued to hit British luxury brand Burberry as its second-half sales results released today show a “challenging” environment for luxury, according to the company’s CEO. Global comparable sales declined by 2 percent for the brand, with the Asia-Pacific…
Topshop’s Mainland ShangPin Launch All About Mobile
Topshop and ShangPin’s pop-up event at The Place mall in Beijing. (Courtesy Photo) When top global fast fashion retailers such as Zara, Uniqlo, or H&M first opened in mainland China, a large flagship store in an area with high foot traffic in Beijing or Shanghai was considered an absolute must for entering the market. Turning…