Yuan’s Custom Eyewear Line, Chair Eyes, Popular In Native Shanghai Eyewear Designer, Chair Yuan (Image: BundPic) Most aspiring luxury shoppers in China may still dream about Chanel or Gucci sunglasses, but a handful of designers in China and elsewhere have taken it upon themselves to create frames designed not only to be sold to label-conscious…
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Jing Daily’s Best Of 2011: Fashion
Our 10 Favorite Fashion Posts Of The Year Chloe Revisiting The Prospects For “No Logo” Luxury In China (February 28) Vega Zaishi Wang Chinese Creativity: Who Are The Emerging Designers? (March 16) DVF Is Diane Von Furstenberg Overextending in China? (March 30) Burberry Burberry To Join China’s Digital Revolution With Beijing…
Hainan Island Set To Launch Tax-Exempt Luxury Shopping: Can It Compete With Hong Kong?
Long-Discussed Plan To Make Hainan A Duty-Free Shopping Haven May Slowly Come To Fruition Hainan tourism officials are taking great pains to portray the island as the “Hawaii of China” (Image courtesy Mandarin Oriental) Jing Daily has previously written about the Chinese government’s plan to turn China’s southernmost province, Hainan island, into a high-end international…
David Chu Imprint Lincs Plans Beijing, Shanghai Flagships, 100 China Locations By 2014
Click:forged wheel Collection Includes Suits, Dress Shirts, Outerwear And Sportswear Lincs by David Chu This past May, Nautica founder and designer David Chu announced that he would be relaunching his Lincs men’s collection — originally a golf line that debuted in 2006 — for fall with a new management team, new, more sophisticated designs and…
Accessible Luxury Brands Ride China’s Middle-Class Wave
Coach, Michael Kors, Karen Millen See Largely Untapped Market Karen Millen opened its first China flagship at Beijing's Parkview Green mall As the battle rages on between high-end and high-street brands in mainland China and Hong Kong, one ongoing trend to watch is the success of so-called “accessible luxury” or “affordable luxury” brands in the…
One Year Of Shang Xia: Jing Daily Exclusive Interview With Jiang Qiong’er (Part One)
“What Is Luxury, In Essence? Time And Emotion” Jiang Qiong’er (Image: Shang Xia) Since its launch last year, Jing Daily has closely followed Shang Xia (上下), the Shanghai-based high-end brand cultivated by the French luxury house Hermès. Situated at Hong Kong Plaza on Huaihai Road and led by artistic director and CEO, Jiang Qiong’er, Shang…
Calvin Klein’s Beijing Sneak Peek Raises Skepticism
CK Predicts China Will Become Largest Jeans & Underwear Market In 2013 Wang Xiao (Photo by Sharron Lovell) This week, models, bloggers and the local fashion elite came together in Beijing for a low-key dinner event hosted by Calvin Klein to celebrate the brand’s spring collection. Held at the Long March Space in the capital’s converted…
What Slowdown? Luxury Giants LVMH, PPR Cash In On China Demand
China Luxury Market Expected To Grow Up To 22 Percent In 2012 Louis Vuitton opened its first mainland China Maison in Shanghai last week Following up strong earnings results from Hermès — which recently reported a 13.4 percent rise in Q2 2012 sales led by a 26.9 percent sales increase in the Asia-Pacific region — and…
Capture China’s Consumers, Capture China’s Women
Mogujie is a Pinterest-like site popular with women in China As I watched China successfully launch the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft last week, carrying the country’s first-ever female astronaut, Liu Yang, I couldn’t help from thinking that China has come a long way in terms of improving gender equality. Though it’s still a work in progress,…
5 Minutes with Four Chinese Designers at New York Fashion Week
In comparison to the major international fashion show events in Europe, where it is still rare to see Chinese fashion designers, New York Fashion Week has increasingly become an accessible platform for many of them to make the connection to the international fashion circuit. This time around, New York Fashion Week has welcomed a great…