Model Cara Delevingne promotes Mulberry’s F/W 2014 London Fashion Week presentation. (Mulberry/Morgan O’Donovan) Mulberry’s F/W 2014 London Fashion Week presentation enlisted the collaboration of famous British model Cara Delevingne in hopes of breathing new life into the brand after a third profit warning and confirmed reports of a 27 percent market price loss. With almost…
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What Our Readers Are Saying About the JD-Farfetch Deal
Last week, JD.com and Farfetch announced a landmark partnership in which the e-commerce giant will acquire a US$397-million stake in British luxury shopping site. Farfetch will benefit from JD’s logistics and social media prowess while JD will take advantage of Farfetch’s worldwide influence as a major luxury e-tailer. While both stand to benefit from the union, is the…
Tiffany Trump Wore Outfit by Chinese Designer to Debate as Dad Bashed China
As Donald Trump ranted about China devaluing currency and stealing American jobs at the U.S. presidential debate on Monday night, his daughter Tiffany Trump displayed a slightly more pro-globalization attitude—at least with her sartorial choice—as she watched from the audience in an outfit by a Chinese fashion designer. Following the debate, fashion label Taoray Wang…
Bosideng Brings ‘Chinese Sensibility’ To U.S. Menswear Market
Looks from Bosideng’s F/W 14 presentation for New York Fashion Week. (Marko Kalfa) Although many of China’s companies are rapidly expanding abroad, its fashion labels are still overwhelmingly confined to the domestic sphere. Billion-dollar company Bosideng has been working hard to change this with an ambitious international development plan that has made its way from…
How China’s Grand Summit Uses Lifestyle to Stand out in an E-Commerce Era
The Grand Summit shopping mall recently opened its doors in Shenzhen. (Courtesy Photo) With a growing number of Chinese luxury consumers heading abroad or online to do their shopping, high-end mall developers and landlords face a challenging industry. Nonetheless, new shopping centers are still being built across China, and in Beijing, several new malls have popped up throughout…
Interview: Luxury Vintage Shop House of Willow’s Co-Founder Talks Classic Style Culture in China
Karen Leung, the co-founder of Beijing luxury vintage shop House of Willow, models a look from the shop. (Courtesy Photo) China’s number of vintage stores and sellers may be rising, but only a sliver of Chinese millennials are actually a part of the overall fashion trend and even fewer have adopted a lifestyle led by…
Spring Festival Spotlight | DKNY Launches ‘Year Of The Horse’ Collection
Items from DKNY’s “Year of the Horse” collection. (DKNY) A new 16-piece collection by DKNY joins a Rolls-Royce model and special Moleskine/Shanghai Tang notebook as the latest product launch to celebrate the year of the horse for Spring Festival (Chinese New Year). Many items in the collection feature an embroidered horse design in the auspicious…
As Mainland Fashion Tastes Go Niche, Young U.S. Labels Hit Beijing Runway
Proenza Schouler, Rag & Bone, And Marchesa In Latest CFDA Show A look by Marchesa from Friday’s show. (Women’s Wear Daily) As Chinese fashionistas continue to widen their interests beyond top mega-brands toward smaller niche labels, the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Vogue Fashion Fund Initiative gave three cutting-edge U.S. designers the…
This Hip Hop Show Brings Upscale Streetwear to China, But at What Price?
The Show That Inspires Chinese Consumers to Talk About Streetwear Hip hop fashion and streetwear culture, though popular in the West, have never gone mainstream in China. But that may be changing owing to a popular online reality show and rap competition called The Rap of China, which features four celebrity producers tasked with training and guiding…
Lane Crawford Chengdu Opening Heralds Tier 2 Cities’ Turn To Shine
The beauty section at Lane Crawford’s new Chengdu store. (Lane Crawford) Shopping centers are opening one after another in Chengdu, and Hong Kong-based luxury department store Lane Crawford hopped on the bandwagon this weekend. While foreign department stores such as the French Galeries Lafayette and Italian 10 Corso Como have focused on the established markets…