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10 Dec

LVMH-owned Cha Ling Shuts Stores In China – WWD

LVMH-owned Cha Ling Shuts Stores In China – WWD
SHANGHAI — LVMH Moët Hennessy-owned Cha Ling is the newest skincare brand to shut its brick-and-mortar operations within the China market after COVID-19-related disruptions. Founded in 2016, Cha Ling is a luxury skincare brand based on pu’er tea culled from China’s Yunnan Province and developed into formulations in France. After launching at Le Bon Marché in 2016, Cha Ling expanded to Hong Kong and mainland China in 2017. In the next years, Cha Ling opened three independent stores in Chinese shopping malls, including Shanghai HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai IFC, and Hangzhou’s MixC Mall. In accordance with Dianping, the Chinese version of Yelp, Cha Ling’s Pudong and Hangzhou stores have closed in recent times. The brand announced the closure of the HKRI Taikoo Hui...
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25 Nov

Aesop Soap Bar First China Store In Downtown Shanghai

Aesop Soap Bar
Aesop Soap Bar SHANGHAI — Aesop Soap Bar For its first brick-and-mortar retail store in China, Aesop picked a leafy serpentine street called Dongping Road in the previous French Concession of downtown Shanghai. Aesop’s in-house design team spent almost a yr fine-tuning the shop. The 2-story, 3,230-square-foot space touts a homely ambiance with locally sourced materials that “pays homage to Chinese craftsmanship,” in accordance with the brand. Sleek basins that take center stage at the shop are made with Guizhou travertine stone, which local artisans sculpted. A ceiling cushioned by a wheat-straw installation handwoven by Chinese artist Didi Wu evokes local handicraft traditions still utilized within the Shanghai region. Vintage French furniture and light-weight fixtures that furnish the shop add to its discreet...
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23 Sep

Valentino’s Newest China Ambassador, Palm Angels’ Paris Post

Valentino’s Newest China Ambassador, Palm Angels’ Paris Post
VALENTINO’S PINK PUSH: Valentino continues to double down on local engagement within the Chinese market, and has tapped the favored singer and husband of Rainie Yang, Li Ronghao, as a brand ambassador for the Greater China region. Ronghao’s appointment got here a day after the brand unveiled a Pink PP (its house hue for the autumn 2022 collection) pop-up store at China’s Aranya Gold Coast. The brand covered a church by the ocean with Pink PP for the occasion. Ronghao spored black and pink looks from the brand’s fall 2022 collection in campaign images. “Valentino’s spirit resonates with me,” the singer said. “I think inspirations in several forms can communicate just tremendous, so long as sharing the same core: rhythm and lyrics...
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17 Sep

Louis Vuitton Men’s China Spin-Off Show Sets Recent Livestream Record

Louis Vuitton Men’s China Spin-Off Show Sets Recent Livestream Record
QINHUANGDAO, CHINA — For its men’s spin-off show in China, Louis Vuitton transformed Aranya, a seaside resort town in Northern China, right into a larger-than-life playground. The spectacle, livestreamed on eight platforms, including Weibo, Douyin, Kuaishou and for the primary time on Dewu, China’s own StockX, attracted greater than 278 million viewers online. Constructing on the “magnified playground” concept introduced in the course of the brand’s Paris men’s show last June, Louis Vuitton swapped a magnified toy racetrack with a blown-up sand scape that took greater than two weeks to construct. Louis Vuitton became the primary luxury brand to host a fashion show at Aranya. Valentino will follow suit, taking on Aranya with art installations and a pop-up store to have a good...
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