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Mytheresa spotlights Chinese designers with exclusive collections

Luxury e-commerce platform Mytheresa is launching four exclusive capsule collections as part of its China Designer Programme to give emerging designers from the region global exposure. The initiative debuts with four womenswear collections from Susan Fang, Didu, Jacques Wei and Xu Zhi, described by Mytheresa as the “new generation of Chinese...

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Xu Zhi star of Chinese fashion boom with Armani nod

Hot up-and-coming designer Xuzhi Chen has landed his first show in Milan with the support of veteran Giorgio Armani, as China takes its place on the luxury fashion map. Sweet-faced Xuzhi, 24, who has been making waves in his home country, said showing at the prestigious Teatro Armani was "very stressful but really really exciting, I couldn't ask...

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Asian designers are set to go big at Milan Fashion Week

Milan Fashion Week kicks off Wednesday with luxury giants from Versace to Prada sharing the stage with hot up-and-comers from Asia. Gucci opens six days of catwalk creativity, following earlier fashion weeks which throbbed with politics -- New York runways flush with anti-Donald Trump protests, and Brexit-battered London. The Florence-based...