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Shanghai Fashion Week: How ambitious brands and boutiques defy sluggish business

The catwalks and showrooms at Shanghai Fashion Week impressed with variety and quality in the AW25 season, especially among the younger labels. The country's budding fashion scene is profiting from the local manufacturing expertise and has evolved rapidly over the past decade, despite a tough apparel market that is showing some signs of...

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Vivienne Westwood and Moncler to headline Shanghai Fashion Week

While Paris Fashion Week begins to heat up, over in China, Shanghai Fashion Week has confirmed its line up for the spring/summer 2025 season, with a number of notable guests making their debut. Among them is none other than British luxury label Vivienne Westwood, which will be headlining the fashion week in a show on its final presentation day....

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Emerging trends and future tech: Key highlights from CHIC Shanghai

CHIC Shanghai has emerged a must-attend event for fashion creators, where innovation, sustainability, and Chinese design converge to shape the future of the industry. From August 27 to 29, exhibitors and participants from over 20 countries gathered at Shanghai Convention Center to discover the country’s latest creations and innovations. As Jiao...

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Customer experience 'Villa Zegna': A temporary flax field in Shanghai

Zegna has unveiled a new temporary customer experience in Shanghai that goes beyond a simple pop-up concept. The 'Villa Zegna' was inspired by Ermenegildo Zegna's original house in the Oasi Zegna - a nature reserve in the northern Italian region of Piedmont - the fashion brand of the same name announced on Friday. The founder had more than half...

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H&M and Shanghai Fashion Week to partner on collaborative collection

Swedish fashion giant H&M has announced it will be partnering with Shanghai Fashion Week on a new collaborative collection with Chinese designers in a bid to showcase local design. Set to be released in autumn 2024, the collection will come as part of the duo’s efforts to diversify commercial channels and leverage fashion industry resources as...

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From sleepyheads to night owls: The highlights of Shanghai Fashion Week AW24

At Shanghai Fashion Week this season, collections mixed classic pieces and details - including references to traditional Chinese clothing - with modern silhouettes and cuts. Overall, designers seemed to be in a celebratory mood, dressing models in long, flowing gowns, revitalising the post-Covid trend of the roaring 20s. In contrast, there were...

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Loewe opens the first exhibition in its 178-year history in Shanghai

Under the name 'Crafted World', the first public exhibition of the Spanish fashion house Loewe has opened its doors in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The exhibition will be on display until 5 May 2024 and from there will travel to different parts of the world to offer an interactive, immersive and complete journey through the company's 178-year...

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Stella McCartney to make Shanghai Fashion Week debut, SS24 schedule released

Details of the upcoming SS24 Shanghai Fashion Week (SFW) have been unveiled, with the event set to become more intertwined with the international fashion industry and sectors beyond than ever before. This is largely down to the theme of the season, ‘Synergy’, defined as dynamic links that in this case revolve around home and abroad, fashion and...

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LVMH building beauty hub in Shanghai

LVMH, the luxury conglomerate parent company of brand’s including Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Fendi, is set to open its largest e-commerce sales and storage hub in the Asia-Pacific region. The news was reported by Business of Fashion. The new hub will be an industrial base for e-commerce packaging and dispatch for LVMH’s cosmetics and perfumes. The...

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US/China relations never stronger in fashion education

While news headlines report on trade and tech wars, rising tariffs and diplomatic discord between the US and China, and American brands and retailers reel from the additional import costs of apparel and footwear, one sector is busily building bridges between both nations. Education knows no politics. The transaction of knowledge and experience,...

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Louis Vuitton’s exhibition “Volez, Voguez, Voyagez” arrives in Shanghai

After Paris, Tokyo, Seoul and New York, Louis Vuitton has brought its exhibition “Volez, Voguez, Voyagez” to Shanghai. Curated by Olivier Saillard, the expo tells the history of the label from 1854 to the present, from trunk maker to fashion house. It occupies 15 rooms, each dedicated to a chapter in Louis Vuitton’s history. Some of the items...

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China lifts up model who fell on Victoria's Secret catwalk

China's internet saw an outpouring of support on Tuesday for model Ming Xi, who apologised to the country for tripping on the catwalk of the first-ever Victoria's Secret fashion show held in her country. A post shared by Ming Xi (@mingxi11) on Nov 20, 2017 at 8:24pm PST Xi, who was born Xi Mengyao, went down after stepping on the train of her...