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Three Chinese start-ups honoured at Kering Generation Awards

Luxury conglomerate Kering and global innovation platform Plug and Play China revealed the winners of the third Kering Generation Awards during Shanghai Fashion Week. The Kering Generation Awards in China was launched in 2018 as part of the group’s sustainability strategy to recognise and support Chinese start-ups bringing about positive...

Fashion

Chinese designer lights up NY with gender bending show

Chinese designer Calvin Luo may be only 21, but his gender bending New York runway show and display of app-controlled LED technology drew a packed house in New York Monday. There were his n' hers mix and match: sharply tailored jackets, pants and gauze mesh tops created for "young boys, young girls who have a very strong attitude," as he told...

Retail

Westfield prepares for record visitors for Chinese New Year

Westfield London and Stratford City shopping centres are preparing for a record number of domestic and international Chinese shoppers for Chinese New Year, which this year falls on February 8. Chinese New Year marks one of the strongest sales periods for Chinese spending at Westfield shopping centres, alongside Chinese Golden Week in October and...

Fashion

Chinese retailers feel the boom’s twilight

Puzzled Chinese retailers are starting to feel the pain of ailing consumers. "Manufacturers' overestimation of external and domestic demand has resulted in high inventories," Wang Qianjin, an analyst at ‘webtex.com’, a Shanghai-based textile industry information website, explained for the national journal ‘Global Times’. Weaker than expected...

Fashion

Chinese shoppers account for 15% of sales

Chinese holiday shopping accounts for 15% of all foreign London and UK sales. The Chinese, who love authentic European brands, benefit from no export costs when they come to shop during our sales season. The festive season saw a continued and unprecedented rise in Chinese shoppers to London and the UK with sales in store up +103% in December,...

Fashion

Cautious spending for brand conscious Chinese

Western companies are increasingly counting on China to deliver growth not available elsewhere, but the country’s consumers remain reluctant when it comes to spending, according to a survey of consumer attitudes published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, reported the Financial Times. “Chinese consumers, both urban and rural, although...