An image from last year’s Fashion’s Night Out in Shanghai. (All Things Beautiful) It was created in 2009 by a legion of fashion glitterati to boost the industry during the recession in New York. Now, the late-night cocktails and shopping extravaganza that is Fashion’s Night Out (FNO) has made a proper home in over 20…
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Simon Collins: How China Is Reshaping the Fashion World Order
China’s influence on the global luxury and fashion industry is growing rapidly; for proof, look to last winter’s New York Fashion Week. For the first time in its 75-year history, there was a dedicated day featuring Chinese designers and brands, launched by Alibaba’s Tmall in collaboration with the powerhouse Council of Fashion Designers of America…
Burberry’s Hong Kong Sales Decline More Than 20 Percent
Burberry’s February 2016 womenswear runway show. (Courtesy Photo) Hong Kong’s luxury slump continued to hit British luxury brand Burberry as its second-half sales results released today show a “challenging” environment for luxury, according to the company’s CEO. Global comparable sales declined by 2 percent for the brand, with the Asia-Pacific region seeing a mid single-digit…
China’s Booming Demand for Indie Fashion Isn’t Without Challenges
It has been a week since buyers finished making their rounds at Shanghai Fashion Week’s three major trade shows, but the process for stocking stores for spring/summer 2017 is just getting started. With more buyers than ever coming from mainland China’s second-, third-, and even fourth-tier cities, the market potential is apparent, but for some…
The H&M Effect: Foreign Fast Fashion Outpaces China’s Homegrown Labels
Fast fashion labels such as Zara are proving to be tough competition for Chinese clothing brands. (Zara) The onslaught of foreign fast-fashion giants such as Zara, H&M, Topshop, and Uniqlo has been fast and furious in China. At the same time, it has put many local mid-to-low-market Chinese brands in a quagmire: they’re now facing…
Topshop’s Mainland ShangPin Launch All About Mobile
Topshop and ShangPin’s pop-up event at The Place mall in Beijing. (Courtesy Photo) When top global fast fashion retailers such as Zara, Uniqlo, or H&M first opened in mainland China, a large flagship store in an area with high foot traffic in Beijing or Shanghai was considered an absolute must for entering the market. Turning…
Bespoke Shoemaker Maison Corthay Finds Solid Footing in China
A staff member puts a patina on a pair of shoes at Maison Corthay. (Courtesy Photo) While big-name brands debate about whether Chinese consumers still love logos amid China’s economic slowdown, one small-scale French shoemaker is basking in its success. Maison Corthay opened its first store in the spring of last year in Beijing’s upscale…
Fake Dior Fashion Week Tickets? China Seller Hawks Front Row in Paris for $146K
Front-row seats to Dior’s upcoming Spring/Summer 2019 runway show in Paris are being scalped for $146,325 (RMB 1 million) online in China. Over the past few days, a ticket sales announcement about the upcoming Dior fashion show during Paris Fashion Week, which begins Tuesday, September 25, has been widely circulated on Chinese social media. The…
Beijing’s Edgy Trendsetters Hail Rise Of Hutong Concept Stores
The interior of boutique INK in Beijing. Once the land of ubiquitous Louis Vuitton bags, China is now a place where the wealthy are undergoing a shift in fashion sense, moving away from the big brands of yesteryear and toward niche designers, snapping up clothes and accessories from a growing crop of concept stores and…
Importing the Catwalk: How High-End Fashion Shows Came to China
New York Fashion Week kicks off next week, just as Chinese New Year — the Year of the Pig (traditionally one of good luck and happiness) — begins. And the two cultures will come together in a way they never had until not long ago. High-fashion runway shows, as we think of them today, began…