Hotels, Fashion Brands Becoming Increasingly Global; Competing with Well-Established Foreign Brands In Chinese Market Chinese luxury brand Liwai has gained recognition over the last 10 years — Will it eventually learn how to appeal to consumers at home and abroad? Home-grown Chinese luxury brands have been in the news lately, with articles focusing on how…
Luxury Brands, Designers Continue To Look East For Fashion Week Inspiration
Western Designers Continue To Use Chinese Design Cues; But Will Chinese Designers Do The Same In Shanghai? The Fall/Winter fashion shows have come to an end and, once again, China was heavy on the minds of those in the luxury realm. Jing Daily has reported on the China-inspired collections of Ralph Lauren this season, as…
Interview: Can China’s Luxury Brands Compete At Home And Abroad?
NPR Interview With Nicholas Lardy Of The Peterson Institute for International Economics Discusses How To Make “‘Made In China’ Mean Luxury” High-end fashion brands like Shanghai Tang are part of the first wave of Chinese luxury brands from the mainland and Hong Kong We’ve written before about domestic Chinese luxury brands, and the way these…
Chanel Shows Metier d’Arts Collection In Shanghai
China Show, Taking Place On December 4 At New Boutique, Follows Last Year’s Debut In Moscow Chanel's new Shanghai boutique is located in the Peninsula Hotel Shanghai, arguably China’s most fashionable and cosmopolitan city — and inarguably its largest — will be the center of the fashion world’s attention this week, as Karl Lagerfeld shows…
Confusion On Brand Origin Reigns Among Chinese Consumers
Lack Of Clear Understanding On Brand Origin Imperils Large-Scale Brand Launches In China 90% of Chinese consumers surveyed by McKinsey mistakenly believed the Chinese retailer Metersbonwe was foreign Recently, Jing Daily looked at the growing ubiquity of “fast fashion” retailers throughout China, noting that some home-grown Chinese companies (particularly ME&CITY) are taking advantage of a…
China A Key Market For Canadian Fur Producers
Popularity Of Fur In Emerging Markets Offsets Plummeting Demand In Western Markets, Overcapacity Feared Growth in demand for fur has been a godsend for many Canadian furriers. But will this demand last in the face of growing competition and luxury fatigue? Canada’s Globe and Mail recently posted an interesting article about the fur trade in…
Marc Jacobs Opens New HK Flagship On Canton Road
Marc Jacobs Expands in Hong Kong With Second Flagship At Harbour City Marc Jacobs flagship on Canton Road Located on the popular Canton Road in Hong Kong, Marc Jacobs recently opened a new flagship location in Hong Kong. The store was designed by Stephan Jaklitsch Architects, who also designed the existing Marc Jacobs Collection store…
Chinese Luxury Brand NE-TIGER Bursts Onto Shanghai Scene
New Boutique Sits Alongside Louis Vuitton, Zegna And Others At Lippo Plaza NE-TIGER's new boutique is located in Lippo Plaza on Huaihai Road M In a New York Times article today on the Chinese luxury market, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau wraps up her look at the Chinese obsession with Western labels by asking: “Where are the…
Burberry Set To Open Largest Asia Flagship In Beijing
1,200 Square Meter Flagship At Sparkle Roll Plaza To Open December 16 Burberry's flagship at Sparkle Roll Plaza will be its largest in Asia It’s been a good year for Burberry in China, with the British luxury brand expanding at a breakneck pace throughout the country and sales rising 25% since July, when Burberry bought…
Will London Luxury Boutiques Soon Stock Chinese Yuan?
British Retailers Buoyant About Increasing Chinese Tourist-Shoppers, But Limitations Remain Coming to a luxury boutique near you? This week, the New York Times covered the gradual internationalization of China’s currency, the renminbi (RMB) or yuan, noting that the country has taken several tentative steps towards making the RMB a global currency in recent years, from…