Chinese designer Xuzhi Chen was in the limelight late last month as the Central Saint Martins graduate was supported by Giorgio Armani at Milan Fashion Week to show at the Armani Theater, Armani’s own catwalk space that has sent new designers to international stardom. Xu is not the first Chinese designer to have this privilege. Rico…
Month: March 2019
China Fashion Trend Watch: Wedding Gowns For Graduation
Young women across China are wearing white bedazzled gowns for one of the biggest days of their life—not their wedding, but their graduation ceremony. According to a recent Wall Street Journal report describing the trend, college graduates have taken up renting white, Western-style wedding gowns for around US$7 and then posing for photo shoots to mark…
London Fashion Week Chinese Designer Spotlight: Apu Jan
Click:wps官网下载 A look from Apu Jan’s Autumn/Winter 2016 collection at London Fashion Week. (Simon Armstrong) London-based, Taiwan-born designer Apu Jan recently hit the runway as part of London Fashion Week’s Fashion Scout, an off-schedule showcase featuring emerging designers. The now LFW regular and designer behind the label APUJAN presented his Autumn/Winter 2016 “Lingeringly” collection of 36…
Chinese Net Users’ Ultra-Luxe Watch Searches Surge 58 Percent
Vacheron Constantin’s Oveseas series received the highest number of internet searches in China for 2013, according to the World Watch Report. (Vacheron Constantin) Luxury watch sales may have declined in China in 2013, but that doesn’t mean Chinese consumers have lost interest in them. Statistics released by Digital Luxury Group for its annual World Watch…
Chinese Designers Rise In Ranks At Top Global Fashion Weeks
Beginning in New York, global fashion week season is upon us next week. Soon, the world’s top fashionistas will be flocking from New York to London, Milan, and Paris to attend a dizzying array of runway shows in each style capital. Although still a minority at these top global four, an elite group of Chinese…
Is Kering Putting All Its Eggs in a Gucci Basket?
Today Kering is the luxury-group king, racking up extraordinary corporate growth with an indisputable star brand: Gucci. And with a laser-focus on a key market: China. Despite the thorny €1.4-billion ($1.578 billion) tax evasion probe into Kering in Italy, the exit of its sustainability flagship brand Stella McCartney, its lost opportunity with Yoox (Kering signed…
Shanghai Fashion Week Attracts Major Buyers in Search of ‘Cutting-Edge’ Design
Momo Wang of Musuem of Friendship (pictured center) at her Tube presentation. (Courtesy Photo) International buyers who offered high praise to the quality and scope of the Spring/Summer 16 edition of Shanghai Fashion Week returned this season to an even more diverse range of events, domestic designers and international brands, and streamlined showrooms. “It was…
Guo Pei Closes Paris Couture Week with Opulent Ode to Imperial China
A look from Guo Pei’s spring/summer 2016 couture collection. (Brandie Raasch) “I am here to show love and respect to Paris’s history of couture,” said Guo Pei, backstage at her first Paris Couture Week show surrounded by models—just one of them Chinese, wearing an iceberg-white wig. The Chinese couturier who is a national treasure at…
Dior Taps Chengdu’s Growing Fashion Clout For Exhibit Debut
Dior’s new traveling exhibition in China will feature miniature versions of haute couture, such as this dress that Jennifer Lawrence wore to the 2013 Academy Awards ceremony. (Dior) As a growing number of fashion and luxury brands opt to hold exhibits in China in hopes of boosting their brand image with increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers,…
Brooks Brothers Pushes Presentation, not Product, in Shanghai
American brand Brooks Brothers celebrated its 200th year with events in Shanghai this week including a store opening at the HKRI Taikoo Hui complex on West Nanjing Road, a runway show scored by a live orchestra, and celebrity appearances. The pomp overshadowed the clothes themselves, which remained true to the brand’s relentless accessibility, invariably buttoned…