After many years of popularity in the western world, Chinese guasha therapy is regaining attention in its own country, adopted by the trendy, self-conscious and mindful Chinese young women. For a long time, Chinese traditional therapy and spiritual healing used to be regarded as outdated and...
The three years of strict Covid control is over, but Chinese consumers' lifestyle has been fundamentally impacted. 2022 has seen a boom in mindfulness, a sense of well-being, and slow-life aspirations. This trend will continue to evolve in 2023 with a growing favor for local...
Starting on 8 Jan 2023, after the step out of the zero-Covid policy, China finally reopened its borders, allowing international travels, but in a new complex sanitary context. For visitors to China, a negative 48h PCR test is required without any quarantine. International travel and...
These past years we assisted to an explosion of C-Beauty brands on the hyper dynamic Chinese beauty market, supported by the Chinese consumer's strong patriotic feeling and willingness to turn to 'proudly created and made in China' products. But to survive in the fierce China’s beauty...
Crossover between art and beauty is quite common and trendy. With the Chinese contemporary art market continues booming, more and more foreign brands start to collaborate with local Chinese artists. As a Parisian clean and niche beauty brand, La Bouche Rouge is entering the Chinese market...
COVID-19 accelerated the shift of some customer lifestyles, leading them to favor simpler and nature-connected lives while challenging the economic and societal principles of modern society in the process. In China, this phenomenon has impacted the new generations as well, and is implying changes to a...
Recently, more and more young people start to post fish related content on social media. Among them, “how to raise a pet fish” has become one of the hottest topics. Raising pet fishes – an old hobby used to be exclusive to the elder generation,...
At the end of July, Alibaba kicked off the 5th edition of its Taobao Maker Festival, a special event dedicated in the celebration of Chinese youth creative talents. The event mixes a series of online activations with an offline month-long truck tour. On the online event,...
Because of the Covid-19 and other natural disasters that have spread all over the World at the beginning of 2020, Chinese consumers are more aware that sustainable shopping and green lifestyle are good for the planet. Earth Day, as the first environmental protection festival in the...
Lanvin has taken its digital strategy to the next level by working with a slew of Chinese digital platforms: the luxury e-tailer SECCO , the video platforms Yizhibo (livestream app belong to Weibo) and iQiyi to build a cloud-based (online) runway to seduce mobile-addicted and...
For the Autumn/Winter 2020 collection, in the context of a confined China, Dior leveraged the power of Chinese ambassadors to increase the attention on their "live" runway on the Chinese influential platform: Weibo. After the livestream show that took place on February 25th, Dior tagged their...
Chinese digital based makeup brand @Perfect Diary launched a doggy eye palette collaborated with livestreamer @Austin Li’s dog called "Never". Rare animal endorsement beauty product coupled with the influencing power of Austin Li (21M Taobao live followers), the "doggy eye palette" gained great success. @Austin Li's pet...
December is an important holiday season for beauty brands to introduce their Christmas and New Year limited editions. As the influence of International festivals in China continue to rise, C-beauty brands are starting to compete with global beauty giants with innovative product offer during the...
Referred to in China as Zhongqiujie (中秋节), the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the largest festivals in Mainland China and East Asia celebrating the harvest and reunion, it can be interpreted as Chinese "Thanks Giving" . Almost all Chinese festivals have an emphasis on food,...
H&M announced its fashion designer collaboration with Angel Chen in July 2019, which marks the first time H&M working with Chinese talent and is bringing localized capsule collection to young and trendy consumers. Angel Chen, pioneer indie-designer Angel Chen is part of a new wave of young...