Shanghai Fashion Week

From Covid-19 to trade tensions, read about the forces that shaped China’s fashion, beauty and luxury sectors over the past 12 months and what to expect in 2021.

China’s fashion capital will be the first to completely return to live, physical shows but insiders concede it’s not quite ‘business as usual.’

China Fashion Week in Beijing, though yet to confirm its change of plans, is expected to follow suit.

China’s emerging design talent is in higher demand than ever, but can the country’s fashion industry overcome its next obstacles?

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.