2,000 Exhibitors Expected At This Year’s Event, Running Through January 20 Hong Kong Fashion Week (Photo: iFeng) Asia’s largest fashion fair, Hong Kong Fashion Week and World Boutique, is open for business. Kicking off yesterday and running until January 20, events include last night’s Fashion Extravaganza, a Young Designers contest, Fashion Week and Fashion Gallery….
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Marc Jacobs’s Chinoiserie: Obsession or Opportunism?
Recent Collections At Paris Fashion Week Show Hints Of Asian Influence Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, S/S 2011 In his Spring-Summer 2011 collections for Louis Vuitton—menswear in July and womenswear last week—Marc Jacobs has been exploring the influence of Chinese design, a development that has drawn a great deal of media attention. Cuing his recent…
Bespoke Fashion Has Second Coming In Shanghai
Louis Vuitton, Dunhill, Ermenegildo Zegna, Fendi Join Domestic Tailors In Offering Bespoke Services At Shanghai Boutiques Modern Shanghai tailors are bringing back the craftsmanship and quality for which they were known in the 1930s In Shanghai’s 1930s heyday, around the time it developed a reputation as the decadent “Paris of the East,” the city was renowned for its…
China’s Luxury Market Increasingly Split Between Conspicuous Consumers And Sophisticated Shoppers
Significant Proportion Of Mainland China Sales Come From Lower-Priced Accessories China’s luxury market is increasingly segmented This week, Yang Zhaohui of the China Fashion Network penned an op-ed about the complexities of the Chinese luxury market, writing that despite the flowery language often used to describe this fast-growing market, it is far more contradictory and…
NE-TIGER Designer Zhang Zhifeng, Supermodels Appear In “Experience China” Ad
NE-TIGER’s Zhang Zhifeng, Supermodels Featured In China’s “National Image” Advertisement China's self-promotional advertisement "China Red" (Image: Xinhua). This week, a 60 second advertisement, entitled “Experience China,” made its debut in New York’s Times Square, where it will be shown 300 times daily through Valentine’s Day (February 14). The ad highlights a number of Chinese celebrities…
Ferragamo Flagship In Shanghai To Be Its Largest Location In Asia
680 Sq.M. Store Set To Open Next Month At Shanghai International Financial Center Ferragamo's Shanghai flagship will be the company's largest location in Asia when it opens next month. It looks like Coach will have to fight a little harder for press coverage when it opens its flagship store in Shanghai next month, as the Italian…
Shanghai Tang Spring Summer 2011 Runway Webcast (PHOTOS)
Shanghai Tang Follows Chloé In Live-Broadcasting Their Runway Show Shanghai Tang’s runway set, featuring Miao culture symbol, the butterfly Shanghai Tang celebrated their spring summer 2011 Miao culture inspired collection today with a runway show, accompanied by a live broadcast online. On the heels of Chloé’s fifth anniversary show broadcast, Shanghai Tang suggests that runway show…
Red-Hot Accessories For The Year Of The Rabbit
Handbags, Necklaces, And Sunglasses For Chinese New Year Looking for the perfect accessory for your Year of the Rabbit ensemble? This week, Xinhua lists some of the best red-themed items to make your Chinese New Year that much more auspicious: For the Wife: China-Only Miu Miu Handbag Available only at MixC mall in Hangzhou and…
Ye Qizheng: Brand Acquisitions A Mixed Bag For Chinese Companies
Hong Kong’s Li & Fung Recently Acquired Beleaguered Italian Brand Cerruti Fashion editor Ye Qizheng (叶琪峥) Following the recent takeover of the Cerruti fashion house by Li & Fung, and the observation by WWD late last year that Chinese and other Asian firms are “on the prowl” for recession-dinged Western brands, the Chinese-language media has been…
Chinese, British Focus On High End In “Brand Desire” Survey
Survey Composed Of 17,000 consumers In UK, US, Germany, Singapore And China BMW has proved a favorite brand among Chinese consumers (Image: 3-series) This week, a wide-ranging survey of 17,000 British, American, German, Singaporean and Chinese consumers shed some light on the most desired brands in each country. Tellingly, respondents in the UK, China and…