Beauty brands are searching for the next blockbuster K-beauty product. Here’s why one contender — cushion foundation compacts — may be headed to a Sephora near you. 

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.

Taobao used to be synonymous with cheap, trendy and sometimes counterfeit fashion, but China’s largest e-commerce platform is now gaining fashion cred as more cool young designers credit it with their success.

As "gilets jaunes" protests wane and the yuan strengthens, the French capital looks set to regain its place as China’s favourite luxury shopping haven. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.

Brands like Uniqlo and Canada Goose are making bank in China, but humble homegrown alternatives were the real winners during this year’s Spring Festival shopping sprees.

Luxury stocks have fallen in the wake of warnings from Apple on slowing Chinese demand for iPhones, but economic headwinds are only part of the brewing China problem facing the luxury sector.

Chinese consumers are upgrading their consumption habits, Canada Goose postponed its Beijing debut amid the fallout from Huawei, and a farmer's DIY couture is going viral. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.

China's streetwear market is turning to women, Kim Kardashian is hoping to keeping up with the country's consumers, and Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was released on bail in Canada. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.