Shanghai Fashion Week has long been regarded as a place for foreign brands to tentatively test the Chinese market, offering luxury fashion houses the opportunity to quietly assess growing demand in the world’s largest market. This season, the event featured more homegrown talent than ever before, including well-acclaimed Chinese brands Angel Chen, Museum of Friendship,…
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Interview: Lane Crawford President Andrew Keith On How To Beat China’s Luxury Slowdown
Lane Crawford President Andrew Keith. (Courtesy Photo) The past three years haven’t been easy for China’s luxury industry, but you might not realize that when talking to Lane Crawford President Andrew Keith. In the midst of a dramatic China growth slowdown for luxury brands and ongoing government corruption crackdown, the Hong Kong-based fashion retailer has…
Opinion: What It Takes To Create an “IT Style” for Chinese Millennials
Many luxury fashion houses find it difficult to reconcile what they stand for and what Chinese millennials want. There is a seemingly unsolvable tension between the two: One represents heritage, craftsmanship, and timeless beauty, while the other demands a shopping culture of convenience, speed, and limitless choice. The traditional quality of luxury brands may, on…
China Continues to Drive Burberry’s Sales in the Latest Fiscal Year
Burberry released its preliminary results for the fiscal year 2017, which ended on March 31, showing that China continues to be a source of strength for the British luxury powerhouse. The fashion house is preparing for the arrival of a new chief executive, former Céline CEO Marco Gobbetti, who will take up his post in July. He has…
Is China Finally Coming Around to Chinese Supermodels?
Chinese supermodels have long found themselves adored by international media and ignored in their home country. They’re often derided for having looks that appeal to Western audiences but don’t align with Asian aesthetics. And it’s hard for their personalities to come through on the runway, staring straight as they stride forward with blank faces, where…
Revolve CEO: ‘The Consumer Came to Us’ in China’s Fashion E-Commerce Market
There are plenty of Chinese consumers who lap up big-name labels, but then there are the style mavens who can rattle off those indie brands you’ve never heard of with the ease of picking out a Gucci bag. It’s these guys and gals that flooded #REVOLVEsocialclub on June 15 to 17, the Shanghai debut shopping…
Ascent Of The Chinese Designer: Huishan Zhang Wins Dorchester
A piece from Huishan Zhang’s Spring 2014 RTW collection. (WWD) The prestigious Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize has named China-born, London-based designer Huishan Zhang this year’s award recipient, marking one of several major awards going to a London-based Chinese designer, and signifying Chinese designers’ growing influence on the global fashion stage. For the award, Zhang competed…
Global Lingerie Brands Bet Big on China Market
Chinese model Sui He in the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. (Shutterstock) As China’s affluent consumers begin to care just as much about what they’re wearing under their clothes as what outfits they’re wearing, lingerie brands from across the world are moving in on the market. In October, London luxury lingerie brand Agent Provocateur opened…
3 Tips from Nike’s Customizable Sneaker Service That’s Fast-Growing in the China Market
What: Nike has been selling customized shoes for almost 20 years. But NIKE iD, the service that allows customers to design their own Nike shoes, has never been as important for the brand as it has in the last five years. Although the company doesn’t disclose sales driven by NIKE iD, it recognizes the service…
Video: U.S. Fashion Labels Have ‘No Strategy’ Without China
American fashion labels are working hard to catch up to European luxury brands in the China market, reports CCTV in a new video from the front lines of New York Fashion Week. In the segment above, the Chinese news network goes backstage to interview several U.S. designers on their China marketing strategies. “There is no…