"McQueen," "Yellow is Forbidden," about Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei, and "The Gospel According to Andre," about the life and career of Andre Leon Tally, have all made a debut at this year's film festival.

The China Edit is a weekly curation of the most important fashion business news and analysis from and about the world’s largest luxury market.

Fashion brands from South Korea, China and Japan are becoming serious rivals of their Western peers as Asian consumers become increasingly confident in their own style and take pride in buying home-grown labels.

This season, fewer than half the couturiers showing in Paris are French. BoF investigates how haute couture has gone global and the opportunities for fledgling brands.

The China Edit is a weekly curation of the most important fashion business news and analysis from and about the world’s largest luxury market.

As fashion's centre of gravity moves steadily south and east, driven by the changing global distribution of both wealth and fashion creativity, Paris' monopoly on the dazzling couture trade is being challenged by a handful of new overseas events with their own ideas about couture.

For many years, Chinese designers looked West. Today, more and more fashion companies, from couture houses to premium brands, are reviving and capitalising on China's own cultural heritage.

The China Edit is a weekly curation of the most important must-read fashion business news and analysis from and about the world’s largest luxury market.