Hangzhou One Of China’s Largest Single Luxury Markets Kiton store at Hangzhou Tower Taking an interesting step for a not-quite-one-year-old boutique, the Italian fashion brand Kiton this week opened the doors of its newly renovated location at Hangzhou Tower. With a newly added “bespoke area,” including plenty of collar, sleeve, button and fabric options for…
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Designer To Watch: Yirantian Guo
“I’m Inspired By Everything Around Me” "White Project" by Yirantian Guo Recent London College Of Fashion graduate (and newly admitted MA student) Yirantian Guo (郭一然天) may be young, but she’s already gaining accolades for her unique sense of design and style. Recently, the Chinese site Fashion Trend Digest caught up with Guo to discuss her…
Tom Ford Opens First Womenswear Boutique In Beijing
Brand Now Has Total Of 67 Stores And Shops-in-Shop Nearly 18 months after officially launching his women’s line in mainland China, Tom Ford is gaining more ground in the country with the launch of his first womenswear boutique in Beijing. An extension to Ford’s existing 1,700-square-foot menswear store at the Peninsula Hotel, the womenswear section…
Report: Greater China Luxury Sales Set To Surpass Japan For First Time
PricewaterhouseCoopers Report Also Notes Opportunity Of Second-, Third-Tier Chinese Cities. Retail sales in Asia (in US$ billion) (Image: PriceWaterhouseCoopers) Underlining the importance of Asia to the global luxury market, and the role that emerging economies like China, Vietnam and India are playing in buoying major brands, a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report highlights some of the key…
Surprise! Consumer 2.0 In China Wants Unknown Brands
Mainland Chinese shoppers often look for brands in Hong Kong that are harder to find at home Some of the best-selling brands in China are labels that are less than well known. This may surprise readers who are used to headlines like, “Three-Hour Lines At Gucci.” But beware of headlines — they only tell one side…
Ralph Lauren Gives Shanghai Clients VIP Treatment
Cocktail Party Example Of “Unique Experience” Brand Strategy Chinese clients are treated to a private fashion show at Ralph Lauren’s Shanghai flagship store. (Affinity China) In an April promotional event at Ralph Lauren’s Shanghai flagship store, Chinese guests were treated to wine, hors d’oeuvres, and an up-close fashion show as part of an increasingly common strategy…
Premium Japanese Denim Brand 45R Makes Beijing Debut
Company Produces Selvedge Denim On Antique Levi’s Looms 45R boutique at Sanlitun Village North The latest international brand to make its first appearance in mainland China, last week the high-end Japanese clothier 45R held a grand opening event at Beijing’s Sanlitun Village. Renowned for its premium (and incredibly expensive) denim, produced in Japan from Zimbabwean cotton on…
JOYCE Brings Savile Row To Hong Kong
JOYCE Central Stocks Three Leading Bespoke Brands British tailoring at JOYCE Central Never content to rest on its laurels, this week leading Hong Kong-based luxury retailer JOYCE followed up the European launch of its Romeo Gigli capsule collection with a special bespoke tailoring section in its Central location featuring the work of three British heritage…
China’s Roderic Wong Wins Audi Young Designer Award 2012
Click:bronze valve Wong Also Won Audi Star Creation 2012 Spot Roderic Wong (C) receives the Audi Star Creation Award A year after fellow Shanghainese designer Uma Wang won Audi’s Progressive Designer Award, this week China’s Roderic Wong (Wang Liang) won the Audi Young Designer Award 2012 in Singapore. As part of his award, which is…
International Luxury Brands In Crosshairs Of China’s Largest Private Company, Fosun
Fosun Looking At Foreign Luxury Segments For Overseas Investment Guo Guangchang, Chairman of Fosun Group Fosun Group, the largest privately owned conglomerate in mainland China, announced last week in Shanghai that the company has signed a memo of understanding to purchase a 9.5 percent stake in Greece’s Folli Follie Group for US$121 million. Fosun, which…