Company Produces Selvedge Denim On Antique Levi’s Looms 45R boutique at Sanlitun Village North The latest international brand to make its first appearance in mainland China, last week the high-end Japanese clothier 45R held a grand opening event at Beijing’s Sanlitun Village. Renowned for its premium (and incredibly expensive) denim, produced in Japan from Zimbabwean cotton on…
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International Luxury Brands In Crosshairs Of China’s Largest Private Company, Fosun
Fosun Looking At Foreign Luxury Segments For Overseas Investment Guo Guangchang, Chairman of Fosun Group Fosun Group, the largest privately owned conglomerate in mainland China, announced last week in Shanghai that the company has signed a memo of understanding to purchase a 9.5 percent stake in Greece’s Folli Follie Group for US$121 million. Fosun, which…
China’s Roderic Wong Wins Audi Young Designer Award 2012
Wong Also Won Audi Star Creation 2012 Spot Roderic Wong (C) receives the Audi Star Creation Award A year after fellow Shanghainese designer Uma Wang won Audi’s Progressive Designer Award, this week China’s Roderic Wong (Wang Liang) won the Audi Young Designer Award 2012 in Singapore. As part of his award, which is given to…
China’s Luxury E-Commerce Market Heads In A New Direction
Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Net-A-Porter Adapt “O2O” (Online-to-Offline) Model For China Net-A-Porter partnered with Shouke to launch TheOutnet.cn this year Last year, Jing Daily predicted that China’s nascent luxury e-commerce market, following massive investment by domestic and international companies in 2011, would see continued growth in 2012 but a broader industry shakeout due to overcrowding and…
10 Minutes With…Luxury Jeweler Wendy Yue
“My Customer Is Generally Very Daring, Bold, And Not Afraid To Be Unique” Wendy Yue Rapacious Rose Establishing her first atelier in 1998 and eponymous brand four years ago, jeweler Wendy Yue has spent the last decade and a half transforming her design firm into one of the most renowned in Hong Kong, celebrated for its bold,…
LVMH Rushes To Keep Up With China’s Changing Tastes
New Strategies Emerge As Consumers’ Preferences Evolve Fan Bingbing poses with a logo-free version of Louis Vuitton’s Alma bag. The actress is an official Louis Vuitton brand ambassador. (Louis Vuitton) According to a new Financial Times article, several experts believe that LVMH’s less-than-impressive first-quarter growth numbers are due to the fact that the company underestimated the rate…
To Play Ball In China, Mulberry Needs To Up Its Game
Strategies That Brands Relied On In Past In China Won’t Cut It In Future Mulberry's one and only mainland China location in Beijing Much like larger British peer Burberry, whose recent slowdown sent shivers down the spine of the luxury sector, a profit warning posted this week by leather goods maker Mulberry has created a similar…
Louis Vuitton Latest Brand To Partner With Jiepang, “China’s Foursquare”
Location-Based Service Has Worked With Burberry, Puma, And Beijing’s Strawberry Festival Jiepang’s LV virtual badge Following recent collaborations with Burberry for the grand opening of its new Beijing flagship and the Strawberry Music Festival, the Chinese location-based service Jiepang (often referred to as “China’s Foursquare”) today announced its newest partnership, a tie-in with Louis Vuitton…
Photo Op: JOYCE Spring/Summer 2013 Private Preview
Partners With Bentley And Mandarin Oriental, HK For Fashion Exclusive JOYCE S/S 2013 Preview Warming up for Spring/Summer 2013, expanding Hong Kong fashion mini-empire JOYCE recently held its bi-annual exclusive private preview of the upcoming season for the city’s fashion elite. This year’s preview took place at JOYCE’s flagship in Central, which was transformed into a…
DKNY’s China-Facing Mahjong Set: The Art Of Subtle Localization
Brands Getting More Creative With Holiday Gifting DKNY Mahjong set As the holiday season and Chinese New Year approach, brands are getting more creative with gifting ideas for Chinese shoppers. While some are sticking with go-to zodiac embellishments — such as Vacheron Constantin’s Legend of the Zodiac 2013, the Dartz Motorz SS (Snake Skin) Bentley GT, the…