“The Rise Of Second-Hand Shops In China Is A Microcosm Of The Luxury Industry” Milan Station is expanding rapidly in mainland China despite dozens of copycats We’ve kept a close eye on the emergence of luxury second-hand shops in places like Shanghai and Shenyang, but with high-end consumption booming throughout China, these stores are now…
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Chinese Designer Yifang Wan Wins Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s Merit Award
Award Worth £25,000 Over Three Seasons Image: Vogue The accolades keep pouring in for emerging Chinese fashion designer Yifang Wan, who was recently announced as the winner of Vauxhall Fashion Scout’s Merit Award for the autumn/winter 2013-14 season. Previous winner of the Central Saint Martins L’Oreal Professional Award in 2010, Wan is perhaps best known for her MA graduation…
Roger Vivier’s High-Stakes Bet On China
Rise Of The Aspirational Market Could Lead To Tiered Luxury Roger Vivier jumped to the second tier days after hitting Beijing Recently, French fashion house Roger Vivier— creator of the Stiletto heel — opened its third mainland China location at Shenyang’s Mall Forum 66, shortly after unveiling its Beijing Yintai Centre flagship and two years…
NetEase’s Luxury E-Commerce Site First Casualty Of 2012
“NetEase Premier” Touted “Global Brands,” “100 Percent Authentic Products,” “7 Day Return Policy” NetEase Premier was launched in January 2011 Less than one year after its much-hyped launch, “NetEase Premier,” the luxury shopping platform created by the Chinese Internet portal NetEase (163.com), has ceased operations, making it the first casualty of the luxury e-commerce shakeout of…
Shanghai Retailer FOOTMARK Creates Limited-Edition Jeans With Clothing Label, Hi Panda
FOOTMARK x Hi Panda Limited Edition Jeans Celebrated at “Pop-Up” Gallery Space FOOTMARK x Hi Panda Pop-Up Flyer Shanghai retailer FOOTMARK, which specializes in casual-wear and streetwear, has launched a limited-edition jeans collaboration with the Shanghai clothing label Hi Panda. As the Chinese-language portal Hexun.com reports today, in its new collaboration, FOOTMARK is drawing not only…
Video: Luxury Brands Get Personal To Make Experiential Marketing Work In China
Exclusive Experience-Based Venues, Events Give Brands An Edge From Shanghai’s Johnnie Walker House (which Jing Daily toured in September), to Shang Xia’s pop-up “Human and Nature” exhibition and Shanghai Tang’s Mongolian Village in Hong Kong, major brands are pulling out all the stops to appeal to an increasingly discriminating Chinese luxury consumer in a market…
Interview: POPBEE’s Janice Lee, From Fashion Blogger To Hong Kong Trendsetter
Journey Of A Blog: The Rise Of POPBEE POPBEE founder, Janice Lee With readers around the world and tens of thousands of Facebook and Sina Weibo fans, Hong Kong’s POPBEE wields substantial influence in the Greater China fashion world. Going beyond its original focus as a fashion blog, POPBEE, run by a team led by…
Jing Profile: China’s New Breed Of Fashion Icons
China’s A-List Fashion Members Steadily Growing The ongoing appeal by the fashion and luxury industries to China’s wealthy consumers has begun to manifest in new ways, as some budding Chinese fashion icons have begun to step up to the global fashion stage. More noticeable over the course of this year’s Fashion Week coverage, an expanding…
Shanghai Tang: China’s Luxury Slowdown “Not Significant” (Video)
Mainland Chinese Account For 20% Of Brand’s Sales, Up From 3% In 2009 The Shanghai Tang Mansion opened earlier this year in Hong KongAs Jing Daily pointed out earlier this month, lower luxury sales growth over the course of 2012 has been anything but uniform for major high-end brands, with the likes of Hermès, Dior…
Taiwanese Designer Apu Jan Kicks Off London Fashion Week Fashion Scout
Muted Graphic Prints, Soft Tailoring, And A Simple Aesthetic Apu Jan A/W 13 (Image: Alessa Beatriz) A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, London-based Taiwanese designer Apu Jan has already caught the eye of several editors and shown up on the radar as a name to watch. This week, Jan kicked off the…