After decades of impressive growth fueled by a burgeoning middle class, 2024 presents a challenging landscape for many companies operating in China. The economic slowdown, driven by a real estate crisis, has resulted in sluggish domestic consumer demand, making it more difficult for brands to...
PS2 Filter, an AI-empowered photo transformer, blows up on TikTok and is now rapidly spreading to Chinese social media. Different from the Image generators that rely on refined prompts with an unpredictable style, the filter’s visual imitates the Play Station 2 games and allows people to morph their images into NPC...
Amidst the excitement of 2024 Shanghai Fashion Week, the market has seen Luxury fashion brands flock back to stage their runway shows in China. Different from the repeat style of 2023 showcased by Dior, Kenzo, and Bottega Veneta, luxury brands are striving to engage more...
Remake fashion, referring to the re-creation of vintage or unwanted clothes, is a very distinctive and self-customized fashion style that becomes increasingly trendy among the fashionable youth. They have started to shift their mere pursuits for big-name, brand-new items to remake creations. The Chinese youngsters become...
As the new year of the dragon approaches, the cultural narrative of luxury brands in the Chinese market reach climax. Instead of superficially incorporating Chinese style into design and lacking spiritual and cultural resonance, this year, luxury brands are focusing on delving into local culture and...
RED, the Chinese content-sharing platform with over 100 million Active Daily Users (ADU), has long been a fertile ground for media creation and brand promotion. As to E-commerce, RED had only been exploring it on a limited scale. However, in 2022, RED accelerated the integration...
Best practice focus: Loewe @ Shanghai Strawberry Music Festival During the 2023 May Day holiday, from 30th April to 2nd May, Loewe surprisingly popped up at Shanghai Strawberry Music Festival with an eye-catching bamboo weaving castle to showcase its 2023 summer collection Paula's Ibiza. Photo: LOEWE Weibo...
After three years of strict Covid control in China, the FW23 Menswear Paris fashion week has finally witnessed an official return of Chinese fashion insiders and influencers. Brands such as Fengchen Wang, Sankuanz, Sean Suen, Ximon Lee, and Ziggy Chen were featured on the Men FW23...
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...
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,...