Mao Suit Weekly June 12...
Today is the 5th day of the 5th Lunar month and so marks the celebration of the Dragon Boat festival across the Chinese world and many parts of Asia. Today is a public holiday in both the Mainland and Hong Kong and people will celebrate by eating rice dumplings. More on the festival via [...]
Mao Suit is Back!...
After a six month hiatus Mao Suit is back and celebrating its 100th post. I used the break to broaden my perspective on China well beyond the fashion arena and what stands out is that China’s sphere of influence on the world’s economic, political and social affairs continues to spread unabated. It’s a privilege [...]
Maosuit is Taking a Rest...
“The domain maosuit.com is about to exceed its bandwidth limit”. That’s the message I keep getting towards the end of the last few months, and this month it has come on the 20th day – even earlier. It’s an encouraging sign and shows that traffic to Maosuit and (presumably) interest in fashion in China [...]
Flurry of Flagship Store Openings End 2012 in Beijing...
To finish off 2012, Beijing has witnessed a flurry of new flagship fashion and luxury store openings over the last month. The most impressive of these stores is the new Miu Miu Beijing flagship – the brand’s biggest in China, which has just opened in the Sanlitun North Village shopping complex. Miu Miu now joins [...]
Alan Fang – Novo CEO Interview...
It seems Alan Fang – CEO of Novo Holdings has always been ahead of the game. He launched Novo Concepts – one of China’s biggest multi-brand fashion retailers back in 2003, way before China was hot and the floodgates of global fashion brands coming to China opened. Then in 2010, he launched Novomania – China’s [...]
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Flurry of Flagship Store Openings End 2012 in Beijing
Miu Miu's New Beijing Flagship Store - The Biggest...
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China’s Street Vendors and Fashion Markets
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Flagship Paradise: Hong Kong’s Canton Road
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China Luxury Market Predictions For 2012
Ermenegildo Zegna 20th Anniversary in China Exhibition...
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The Rise of Chic Brands in China
This article was fist published on the Novomania Website and October Newsletter Chinese are rapidly catching onto the idea of fashion, brands and shopping as a part of their lifestyle and over recent years consumers have been drawn to the big international brands operating in either the luxury or lower-end (including fast fashion and [...]
China’s Street Vendors and Fashion Markets
Despite many high-end retailers in China reporting a slower growth rate this year compared with 2011, there is still a clamor of brands wanting to get into China and open new stores in the hundreds of new malls opening across China. These malls are doing a great job of attracting the biggest international retailers and [...]
Eve Fashion Group Interview Part I
As Founder and Chairman of Eve Fashion Group and also acting in other prominent roles for the China Fashion Association and China Entrepreneur Club etc. Ms. Xie Hua is an influential figure in the Chinese fashion industry. She is a regular speaker at domestic and international fashion events and never shy to speak her mind [...]
China’s E-Commerce Emperor
Two weeks ago I wrote about the massive potential of e-commerce in China that Boston Consulting Group predicts will be worth more than 300 billion dollars by 2015. As numerous e-tailors fold under highly competitive market pressures and others battle it out with nasty price wars, through all of this, one company – The Alibaba [...]
China’s Copycat Culture and Creativity
While strolling around Taiyuan, an up-and-coming and coal-rich second-tier city, I was amused to find an entire street of identical looking sportswear stores. Each brands’ logo bore resemblance to Nike’s Swoosh, differentiated themselves by either being upside down, back to front or having an extra kink etc. sticking out. I never expected Taiyuan to have [...]
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