BoF looks back at the trends that have shaped China’s fashion, beauty, luxury and retail landscape over the past ten years, from the rise of WeChat to a series of cultural missteps by Western labels.

Two of three new entrants to an exclusive club of 20 high performing fashion companies are Chinese, according to the 2020 edition of The State of Fashion report released today by BoF and McKinsey. How did Anta and HLA do it?

Museum-worthy couture is now being chased by everyone from private collectors to secondhand retailers, and prices are ballooning.

Despite months of market volatility and political unrest in Asia’s formerly unrivalled shopping capital, luxury retailers like K11, Gucci and Tiffany are pushing ahead with new projects. Why?

The bulk of Chinese social media finds no offence with the star’s latest cover for Harper’s Bazaar China, but do their perceptions of cultural appropriation differ from the West?

It’s no secret that Chinese A-listers are fans of Europe’s top couture houses, but some of the biggest names in the game are beginning to lose would-be clients to Chinese couturiers.

Shanghai Fashion Week exposed a subtle but unshakable aesthetic gap between local designers and global fashion brands, suggesting that the latter need to do better range planning to satiate demand in China. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.

Though the Hanfu trend may be small, global brands would be naive to ignore its implications for the Chinese fashion market.