142 Square Meter Store Stocks Full Range Of Mens’ Apparel & Accessories Bottega Veneta Men's Store Shanghai As some in Shanghai got ready to unwrap presents earlier this week, Bottega Veneta was busy unveiling its second men’s store in China at Shanghai’s Plaza 66. Designed by creative director Tomas Maier, the 142 square meter store…
Month: March 2019
ASOS Hopes To Launch Chinese-Language Site “Within A Year”
International Customers Account For 65 Percent Of Group Sales ASOS will have to duke it out with dozens of local and international competitors in China The battle for China’s burgeoning e-commerce devotee is set to get even more intense, as fast-growing British online fashion retailer ASOS plans to launch a Chinese-language site within the next…
American Fashion Brands Hitting “Emotional Sweet Spot” In Hong Kong
Younger Consumers Fueling Recent American Brand Influx Grand opening of the A&F Hong Kong flagship, August 2012 Since American traders moved to Hong Kong in 1842 in the wake of the First Opium War, USA-born-and-bred brands have proliferated in the city to include Levi’s, Calvin Klein, Gap and DKNY. The enthusiasm for the country’s apparel…
Will Luxury Art Exhibitions Face A Backlash In China?
Louis Vuitton “Voyages” Exhibition Currently Up In Beijing “Voyages” at the National Museum of China (Image: PR) Last week, Jing Daily profiled Louis Vuitton’s “Voyages” exhibition, which opened this weekend at the National Museum of China in Beijing and will run through August 30. Marking LV’s 20th anniversary in mainland China, “Voyages” is the second…
It All Starts In Shanghai For Saint Laurent Paris
Creative Director Hedi Slimane’s First Step In A New Direction Saint Laurent Paris Shanghai (Image: PR) Already with a notable presence in multibrand stores and malls across Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, and Wuhan, today French luxury fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, led by creative director Hedi Slimane, launched the brand’s first ready-to-wear…
Amid Market Turbulence, More Chinese Investors May Turn To Art
Click:Hair chalk Gift set Global Market Turmoil, Few Investment Options, Rampant Inflation Should See More New Chinese Collectors Bidding This Fall Art, watches, wine: Chinese collectors flock to auction hotspots like Hong Kong and Beijing in their search for stable portable investments With global financial markets around the world reacting violently to the debt problems…
Armani: “Non-Ostentatious Elegance” Fueled 39 Percent China Growth
Milan Label Evades Slowdown Woes After Year Of Expansion Last year’s Armani runway show in Beijing. (Women’s Wear Daily) Providing further evidence that some companies have not been hit by China’s luxury slowdown as hard as others, Armani just reported 39 percent profit gains in the country, giving a boost to its overall 20 percent…
Hong Huang’s Beijing Boutique, Brand New China (BNC) Signs First In-House Fashion Designer
Hong: “There Is Hope For China’s Fashion Industry” Young designer Xiang Yaodong Hong Huang, publisher of the influential lifestyle magazine iLook, tireless promoter of home-grown Chinese fashion design, and proprietress of the “designed in China” boutique Brand New China (BNC), has signed the fresh ESMOD Beijing graduate Xiang Yaodong (项耀东) as the first in-house designer for her…
Louis Vuitton “Paris-Shanghai” Exhibition Travels To Hangzhou
Hangzhou MixC Location Was Louis Vuitton’s Eighth China Flagship Louis Vuitton exhibition, Hangzhou Commemorating the journey of the Louis Vuitton Express from Paris to Shanghai this July, LV’s “Paris-Shanghai” exhibition recently hit the luxury giant’s Hangzhou flagship at MixC mall. Designed to resemble a set of vintage Louis Vuitton luggage, the exhibition is located in…
Label Overload: How Many More Western Brands Can The Chinese Market Sustain?
“Doing Business In Greater China Has Become Very Expensive” Abercrombie & Fitch opened its inaugural Hong Kong flagship on August 11, 2012 Abercrombie & Fitch, Jack Wills, and COS are just a few of numerous mid- to high-end Western brands to open stores (and offices) in Hong Kong last year, with iconic British brand Topshop…