Debut Of “Guo Pei Xi” Follows Participation In Singapore’s Digital Fashion Week Guo Pei's designs have found fans worldwide This week, Beijing-based couturier Guo Pei (Jing Daily interview) launched her first Shanghai boutique on the city’s historic Bund, offering her newest semi-couture line, Guo Pei Xi, with a focus on wedding and special occasion attire. Widely renowned…
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As China Luxury Tax Debate Drags On, Luxury Brands Raise Prices
Click:辦公室出租 Euro Depreciation, Rising Raw Material Costs Partly To Blame Beijing's Shin Kong Place shopping mall Over the past several months, the debate about whether China will reduce its notoriously high luxury tax in order to spur more domestic consumption (and increase tax receipts) has reached fever pitch. While some officials have hinted that reductions…
Independent Designers, Labels Band Together To Raise Shanghai’s Fashion IQ
Topshop, Fei Space, The Villa Take Part In Second Event The Insider, 2nd Installment Following up the inaugural event last July, this past weekend the fashion website ParkLU gathered the best of the best from Shanghai’s fashion scene for the second “Insider” private pop-up shop. Attended by several of the city’s leading multi-brand retailers, among them The…
Marimekko Hits Shanghai With A Splash Of Color
Event At Shanghai MoCA Part Of Radical Design Week 2012 Jin Xing Dance Troupe + Mika Ihamuotila (Image: Erica Ji for Jing Daily) Recently, the popular Finnish textile & clothing design house Marimekko held its first fashion show at MoCA Shanghai in People’s Park as part of Radical Design Week 2012. Having made its official entrée into the…
Gatsby’s Influence Reaches Chinese Fashion
Mainland Marketing Campaigns Follow U.S. Fashion Playbook Chinese models Du Juan and Sui He pose in a Great Gatsby-style shoot for Vogue China. (Vogue China) U.S. blockbuster The Great Gatsby has inspired a plethora of marketing opportunities for luxury brands in the United States, including a full-scale New York costume exhibit from Prada, which designed…
Week In Review: April 8-12, 2013
In case you missed them the first time around, here are some of Jing Daily’s top posts for the week of April 8-12: Christie’s Signs Groundbreaking Deal To Hold Auctions On Mainland Christie’s CEO Steven Murphy in Hong Kong on November 22, 2012. (South China Morning Post) In a major development for the role of…
Mainland Chinese Fuel Luxury Brand Profits, Rent Hikes In Hong Kong
Tourists From Chinese Mainland Rose To 28 Million In 2011, 67% Of Total Tourists from mainland China continue to flock to Hong Kong to buy duty-free luxury goods From waiting in hours-long lines to stock up on luxury goods to causing controversies at the Dolce & Gabbana flagship in Tsim Sha Tsui to making a…
Getting To The Bottom Of China’s Luxury Price Discrepancy
Analyzing China’s Controversial Luxury Pricing Louis Vuitton’s Paris flagship is a Mecca of sorts for Chinese tourist-shoppers With the growing economic power of urban Chinese consumers and the increasing popularity of luxury goods throughout mainland China, the issue of the discrepancy in prices between China and overseas markets like Europe has come to the forefront….
Designers Hope To Catch China’s Attention With Great Wall Runway Show
Proenza Schouler, Rag & Bone, and Marchesa To Present Fall Collections CFDA recently issued a press release stating that a runway show will be held at the Great Wall of China in June. While the Great Wall may not have been so great at keeping enemies at bay throughout history, it is certainly shaping up as…
Beijing Retail Shorts: Chronicle, Breguet, Moncler, Hogan
New Store Openings & New Collections In The Chinese Capital A roundup of fashion and retail news from Beijing, from the launch of the Scandinavian footwear brand Chronicle to Moncler’s sprawling new Sanlitun boutique. Chronicle Launch At Sanlitun D.Lounge This week, the Scandinavian men’s footwear brand Chronicle marked the launch of its new boutique at…