Fuxing Park, home to Shanghai Fashion Week, is one of my all time favorite places to hang out in Shanghai, so when I was up early this past Saturday morning I decided to head on over and see how the ...
Yesterday I participated in the first “Blog Talks” event organized by Sandy Chu of http://shanghaistyle.net/. I really enjoyed presenting CPHNS (as well as chinafashioncollective.tumblr. c...
Sandy Chu of Shanghai Style kindly put together an amazing night of blogger presentations, so if you’re available May 23rd (that’s today!) between 8pm and 12pm, please stop by for 2 for 1...
I was up early on Sunday morning last week in Beijing, so I decided to ride around on my trusty-ish bike, looking for whatever I could find. Aside from the boys wandering out of Beijing’s major...
Although I rode around Beijing on Vega Wang‘s bike most of this past weekend, I still feel much less capable of describing Beijing’s street style than Shanghai’s… I guess I ju...
Aside from super feminine and slightly ridiculous styles on Qi Pu Lu, I also came across a good amount of literal t-shirts. This one, which read “YOU, ONE FINE DAY, ME”, was one of my fav...
Far from Beijing’s hip Sanlitun district is Shanghai’s Qi Pu Lu, known in English as “Cheap Road”: It’s a major destination in Shanghai that I’ve only recently dis...
I’m off to The Capital in a few hours for the Alexander Wang opening at The Village in Beijing’s hip Sanlitun district on Friday night… It should be an amazing store opening, as it&...
The other day I took a designer friend to lunch at a Xin Jiang restaurant in Shanghai called Xibo. Previously I’d only been there at night for dinner, and never noticed the decor on the wall ne...
I took too many pictures of the many cool kids at Strawberry Music Festival this past weekend to post them all of them individually, but I thought it would be a waste to let these just sit in my arch...
Rambunctious Chinese youth and music enthusiasts traveled all the way to Pudong for the three-day Strawberry Music Festival this past holiday weekend. It was my first time attending such a festival i...
After Shanghai’s April Acid Showers, it finally feels like Summer is coming… So I’ve been doing a lot of night scootering, and have discovered some pretty cool places over the past ...
Sunbrellas are common on the Mainland, but I was ecstatic to find this guy wearing a sunbrella HAT! I’ve seen sunbrella hats in Hong Kong before, but this was the first time I spotted them in S...
May J., a brand I first discovered at Shanghai Fashion Week in October 2009, has come far in her three short years as one of China’s most promising menswear designers. She presented a refined y...
ZucZug is truly a brand made for everyone. Although their creative director (Wang Yi Yang of Cha Gang) and design team are all Chinese, the brand strives to embrace people of all ethnic backgrounds a...
Helen Lee, a perennial favorite and ardent support of Shanghai Fashion Week since she launched her eponymous label in April 2011, continues to improve upon an already solid foundation and create stro...
Local designer Jenny Ji has been an ardent and constant supporter of Shanghai Fashion Week for the past few seasons, and that has been a major plus for the event because consistency is what it is lac...
I stuck around after the Fu Dan University show to meet some of the students backstage and discovered that another student show, this time from the Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences, was up...
As Fu Dan University is one of the most celebrated fashion schools in China, it was no surprise that they staged a great student group show at 800Show on the third day of Shanghai Fashion Week. Altho...
Sorry I’m being so lazy and not posting full written reviews of all of the shows, but there are just so many pictures and videos to sort through and upload and post that I’m afraid I̵...
One of the best shows ever at Shanghai Fashion Week. I don’t really have time to write a full review, but the clothes speak for themselves. Take a look: Filed under: Chinese Designers, C...
I’m about to attend my 6th season of Shanghai Fashion Week, and I have to admit that it has shaped up quite nicely this time around. With shows from Helen Lee, May J. by Jiang Ling, Poesia by C...
Shanghai Fashion Week FW12 starts April 11th, which is technically tomorrow!! That means it’s time for another week of a few great shows and a lot of mediocre ones, but the true show is outside...
I’ve seen this little old lady around my neighborhood quite a bit… Most would call her a Crazy Cat Lady because she goes all around Shanghai feeding many of the homeless cats, but I think...
What do you think of when you see this Chinese lady? You probably don’t think of this: But this is no April Fools’ Day joke, this is real life in China. Respect. Filed under: Back, Chines...
As Shanghai Fashion Week approaches, the fashion media will inevitably ask both attendants and participating designers alike silly questions, the most likely being “What is Chinese style?”...
I went for a little scooter tour on Sunday because the weather was so nice and I had a fun project to work on. I headed towards the northern Bund area (known as Wai Tan Yuan) because I’m workin...
A delayed Spring finally arrived in Shanghai, soaking the city in very welcome rays of sunshine for the first time in quite a while. Chinese people were out in droves, and many of them were taking th...
Brr brr brr brr brrrrrrrr, it’s still freezing in Shanghai… When will Spring arrive?! I don’t want to jump straight to summer, but everyone is still wearing their winter coats like ...
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