Driven By Male Consumers, Calvin Klein Expects To Maintain 50 Percent Growth In 2012 Home-grown Chinese menswear brand Sundance hopes to move up the value chain As some of the more ambitious home-grown Chinese menswear brands start to look overseas for new markets, international brands are finding ever greater success in China. Though fashion consumption…
Month: March 2019
Which Luxury Brands Will Benefit From China’s “Savvy” Shoppers?
Escada Survey Found Willingness To Buy Fakes Fell From 31% In 2008 To 12% In 2010 Logo-light brands like Proenza Schouler may attract the attention of more sophisticated Chinese shoppers This week, the FT writes that a renewed push to drive domestic consumption in China is creating a new generation of increasingly savvy and demanding…
Dior Launches New Shanghai Boutique With Runway Show
Renovated Location Includes 327 Sq. Meter Women’s Store And 122 Sq. Meter Men’s Store Dior's Jerome Baudy (L) and Andrew Wu (R) with actor Dou Xiao and actress Dong Jie (second right) Last weekend, Dior marked the opening of its newly renovated location at Shanghai’s IFC mall with an exclusive fashion show and grand opening…
Q&A: Charles Wang Of Avant-Garde Beijing Boutique, Dong Liang
Boutique In Wudaoying Hutong Exclusively Stocks Pieces By Chinese Designers In recent years, a new fashion revolution has taken hold in China as a surge of avant-garde boutiques have opened in fashion-conscious cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Harnessing popular digital platforms like Sina Weibo and Douban, some of these small concept stores have managed…
Chair Yuan: Shanghai’s Own Luxury Eyewear Designer
Yuan’s Custom Eyewear Line, Chair Eyes, Popular In Native Shanghai Eyewear Designer, Chair Yuan (Image: BundPic) Most aspiring luxury shoppers in China may still dream about Chanel or Gucci sunglasses, but a handful of designers in China and elsewhere have taken it upon themselves to create frames designed not only to be sold to label-conscious…
Brioni Doubles Down On China’s Menswear Market
Italian Brand Expanding Rapidly Via Monobrand Stores Brioni Suzhou PPR-owned Italian menswear and accessories brand Brioni still sees gold in China’s evolving luxury market, having nearly doubled its locations in the country over the course of this year. Coming on the heels of its grand openings in Wuhan, Guangzhou, Shenyang and Hangzhou earlier this year,…
Jing Daily’s Best Of 2011: Fashion
Our 10 Favorite Fashion Posts Of The Year Chloe Revisiting The Prospects For “No Logo” Luxury In China (February 28) Vega Zaishi Wang Chinese Creativity: Who Are The Emerging Designers? (March 16) DVF Is Diane Von Furstenberg Overextending in China? (March 30) Burberry Burberry To Join China’s Digital Revolution With Beijing…
David Chu Imprint Lincs Plans Beijing, Shanghai Flagships, 100 China Locations By 2014
Click:forged wheel Collection Includes Suits, Dress Shirts, Outerwear And Sportswear Lincs by David Chu This past May, Nautica founder and designer David Chu announced that he would be relaunching his Lincs men’s collection — originally a golf line that debuted in 2006 — for fall with a new management team, new, more sophisticated designs and…
Hainan Island Set To Launch Tax-Exempt Luxury Shopping: Can It Compete With Hong Kong?
Long-Discussed Plan To Make Hainan A Duty-Free Shopping Haven May Slowly Come To Fruition Hainan tourism officials are taking great pains to portray the island as the “Hawaii of China” (Image courtesy Mandarin Oriental) Jing Daily has previously written about the Chinese government’s plan to turn China’s southernmost province, Hainan island, into a high-end international…
Accessible Luxury Brands Ride China’s Middle-Class Wave
Coach, Michael Kors, Karen Millen See Largely Untapped Market Karen Millen opened its first China flagship at Beijing's Parkview Green mall As the battle rages on between high-end and high-street brands in mainland China and Hong Kong, one ongoing trend to watch is the success of so-called “accessible luxury” or “affordable luxury” brands in the…