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Chinese moms can be tough. This was confirmed to the world when Yale professor Amy Chua first coined the term “Tiger Mom” in her 2011 memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” a book that’s since become the stereotype for Chinese parenting. Eight years later, China’s strict moms are once more making media headlines. This […]

Dior has become the latest major brand to inflict damage upon itself in China after it revealed a map of the nation that did not include Taiwan. Despite apologizing on Chinese social media, experts suggest that the brand must issue a global statement, or risk being boycotted by Chinese consumers. Yesterday, Dior presented a workshop […]

Sustainable fashion may sound unsexy to a lot of people, but it’s currently in vogue in the fashion industry now that it’s come to light that the clothing and textile industry is one of the largest polluters in the world.  At this year’s Shanghai Fashion Week, the luxury group Kering collaborated with the Silicon Valley-based […]

Coming after surprisingly strong results in the first half of the year, which left execs “cautiously optimistic” for 2019, luxury giant LVMH recently released a Q3 2019 earnings report that showed continued growth in the face of a tough global luxury environment. According to LVMH, the group saw a 16 percent increase in revenue in […]

2019 has been a tough year so far for many fashion brands, but there are still winners to be found, and one of them is lifestyle sportswear brand Li-Ning. In China’s homegrown sportswear segment, the brands Anta and Li-Ning are like the country’s Nike and Adidas. Li-Ning was founded by Olympic Gold medalist and hometown […]

We are living in a world of uncertainty and disruption. Technology shifts have never been so fast or severe, consumers have never been so demanding, and the competition has never been so intense. Business models are changing in every industry imaginable because of technological innovations. And if that’s not enough pressure for brands, it’s now […]

In late August, the Chinese telecom company Huawei and the fast-growing eyewear brand Gentle Monster dropped a new wearable tech collaboration called Gentle Monster x Huawei Smart Eyewear, which features a series of smart sunglasses and optical frames in Gentle Monster’s most popular unisex style. Though there’s no camera in the glasses, they can take […]

It’s a familiar story. A sales associate from a luxury boutique in Beijing adds a new client’s information on WeChat. The client is from Hohhot, a third-tier city in Northern China, a one and a half hour flight from Beijing. The sales associate notes her preference and assures her that he will update her on […]

Oscar Wilde famously said, “One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art.” According to Fashion and Imagination: About Clothes and Art, since the 1960s, we have obscured the boundaries between the two. Imagination and fantasy are components of any art form, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that […]

This post originally appeared on Radii China, our content partner. Gender equality. Freedom of speech. The unchecked, society-altering growth of social media and influencer culture. No matter where you’re from, there are plenty of things to be mad — or at least, moderately irritated — about in today’s society. Designers Shao Yuner and Zhou “Stef” […]