Retailer Has 45 Boutiques In Asia, North America, Middle East And Europe Refaeli and Becker pose with the new Shanghai Tang polo shirt in London One of the most actively philanthropic high-end brands in Asia, this week the Hong Kong-based, Richemont-owned fashion house Shanghai Tang (previously on Jing Daily) debuted a new polo shirt created…
Berluti Opens Its First Maison In China
Click:Tricycle Electric Bikes China Major Focus Of LVMH Menswear Subsidiary’s Year Of Global Expansion The interior of Berluti’s new Shanghai location. (Berluti) Berluti opened its first store in China carrying its entire product offering at the Shanghai IFC mall last week. The 3,700-square-foot boutique features leather bags, small leather goods, shoes, and ready-to-wear. A private lounge…
Bottega Veneta Opens Second Men’s Store In Shanghai
142 Square Meter Store Stocks Full Range Of Mens’ Apparel & Accessories Bottega Veneta Men's Store Shanghai As some in Shanghai got ready to unwrap presents earlier this week, Bottega Veneta was busy unveiling its second men’s store in China at Shanghai’s Plaza 66. Designed by creative director Tomas Maier, the 142 square meter store…
ASOS Hopes To Launch Chinese-Language Site “Within A Year”
International Customers Account For 65 Percent Of Group Sales ASOS will have to duke it out with dozens of local and international competitors in China The battle for China’s burgeoning e-commerce devotee is set to get even more intense, as fast-growing British online fashion retailer ASOS plans to launch a Chinese-language site within the next…
American Fashion Brands Hitting “Emotional Sweet Spot” In Hong Kong
Younger Consumers Fueling Recent American Brand Influx Grand opening of the A&F Hong Kong flagship, August 2012 Since American traders moved to Hong Kong in 1842 in the wake of the First Opium War, USA-born-and-bred brands have proliferated in the city to include Levi’s, Calvin Klein, Gap and DKNY. The enthusiasm for the country’s apparel…
Will Luxury Art Exhibitions Face A Backlash In China?
Louis Vuitton “Voyages” Exhibition Currently Up In Beijing “Voyages” at the National Museum of China (Image: PR) Last week, Jing Daily profiled Louis Vuitton’s “Voyages” exhibition, which opened this weekend at the National Museum of China in Beijing and will run through August 30. Marking LV’s 20th anniversary in mainland China, “Voyages” is the second…
It All Starts In Shanghai For Saint Laurent Paris
Creative Director Hedi Slimane’s First Step In A New Direction Saint Laurent Paris Shanghai (Image: PR) Already with a notable presence in multibrand stores and malls across Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Harbin, and Wuhan, today French luxury fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, led by creative director Hedi Slimane, launched the brand’s first ready-to-wear…
Amid Market Turbulence, More Chinese Investors May Turn To Art
Click:Hair chalk Gift set Global Market Turmoil, Few Investment Options, Rampant Inflation Should See More New Chinese Collectors Bidding This Fall Art, watches, wine: Chinese collectors flock to auction hotspots like Hong Kong and Beijing in their search for stable portable investments With global financial markets around the world reacting violently to the debt problems…
Armani: “Non-Ostentatious Elegance” Fueled 39 Percent China Growth
Milan Label Evades Slowdown Woes After Year Of Expansion Last year’s Armani runway show in Beijing. (Women’s Wear Daily) Providing further evidence that some companies have not been hit by China’s luxury slowdown as hard as others, Armani just reported 39 percent profit gains in the country, giving a boost to its overall 20 percent…
Hong Huang’s Beijing Boutique, Brand New China (BNC) Signs First In-House Fashion Designer
Hong: “There Is Hope For China’s Fashion Industry” Young designer Xiang Yaodong Hong Huang, publisher of the influential lifestyle magazine iLook, tireless promoter of home-grown Chinese fashion design, and proprietress of the “designed in China” boutique Brand New China (BNC), has signed the fresh ESMOD Beijing graduate Xiang Yaodong (项耀东) as the first in-house designer for her…