Homegrown Brands Like Forever Bicycles, Huili Sneakers Making Comeback Over the past several years, “fugu” (复古, or “retro”) style has been steadily growing in popularity among some of China’s younger, or more adventurous, urbanites. With brands like Nike and Adidas becoming ubiquitous from Shanghai to Xiji, and even the smallest third-tier city getting its own…
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Coach To Open Mainland China Flagship Store In Shanghai This April
Company Plans To Open 15 New Stores In China This Year Coach's Hong Kong flagship store opened in 2008 (Image courtesy Butterboom) Earlier this month, Lew Frankfort, CEO of the American luxury brand Coach, announced that his company is committed to building more market share in the Chinese market in 2010. As we wrote at that…
Beijing’s 10 Most Luxurious Malls
Xinhua List Factors In Facilities, Location, Boutiques And Popularity Recently, Jing Daily translated the Chinese portal JRJ’s top ten list of China’s “Ten Most Luxurious Cities,” which saw Beijing and Shanghai jostling for the top spot. (Spoiler: Shanghai won out.) This week, another top ten list, this time compiled by Xinhua, looks at a somewhat…
Tiffany, Other Luxury Retailers Push Digital Outreach In China Market
Luxury Brands Looking Into Innovative Branding And Marketing Techniques To Cement Customer Loyalty In Mainland Tiffany & Co. is employing innovative digital marketing techniques for its China "Tiffany Keys" campaign (Photo: Tiffany & Co.) As anyone who’s recently been to one of China’s newer luxury malls can attest, middle- and upper-middle class shoppers are constantly…
A New, Younger Demographic Emerging In China’s Luxury Market: Toddlers
Click:hype culture Luxury Brands Like Gucci, Fendi And Stella McCartney Latest To Create “Pint-Sized” Lines The future of luxury consumption in China? The New York Times reports today that more top luxury brands — including Gucci, Fendi and Stella McCartney — are adding children’s lines to their collections, in a move that may indicate that…
Vintage Store Triple-Major: An “Aesthete’s Apothecary” In The Heart Of Beijing
Triple-Major Stocks Over 20 Designers From More Than 10 Countries, Including Finland, Austria And The Netherlands Triple-Major (Photo by Nels Frye/Stylites in Beijing) Our friends at Stylites in Beijing recently took a trip to Baochao Hutong, an as-yet-ungentrified offshoot of the trendy (yet somewhat imperiled) Gulou neighborhood, to check out Triple-Major, one of Beijing’s few…
Jing Daily’s Must-Know Luxury Malls In Mainland China
Beijing, Shanghai Lead The Way, Though Second-Tier Cities Are Moving Up Fast As luxury brands further extend their reach into the mainland China market, Jing Daily turns its attention to the exclusive malls and shopping centers that are home to many of the top lux labels. Here is the Jing list of Must-Know Luxury Shopping…
Second-Hand Luxury Market On The Rise In China
Second-Hand Stores, Both Online And Physical, Report Staggering Profits Though second-hand luxury stores are relatively new in mainland China, chains like Milan Station have thrived in Hong Kong for years For some of China’s aspirational luxury buyers — typically lower-level white collar workers who have been known to subsist on instant noodles to save up…
China’s “Love For Luxury” Boosting Hong Kong Retailers (Video)
Mainland Shoppers Take Advantage Of Hong Kong’s Proximity, Lower Taxes To Stock Up On Luxury Goods CNN posted an interesting video today about the growing number of mainland Chinese shoppers flocking to Hong Kong to buy luxury goods, much to the enjoyment of Hong Kong retailers and international luxury brands alike: As Jing Daily has…
Exclusive: Lacoste Collector’s Series By Artist Li Xiaofeng Set To Launch In Paris
On-The-Ground Coverage By Nels Frye (STYLITES IN BEIJING) Lacoste is launching its 2010 Collector’s Series, for which it has tapped Chinese contemporary artist Li Xiaofeng (best known for his “porcelain shard” creations), this week in Paris at the famed Hôtel Costes. In the run-up to the official launch on Friday, Jing Daily will be posting…