After a successful inaugural event last fall, the Design Art Fashion Fair (DAFF) returns to Shanghai for a second showing. Fair organizer The Ice Cream Truck(TICT) plans for nearly double the amount of vendors and participants this time around, in an event that aims to let China's creative leaders interact, share ideas and inspire the public. We spoke with TICT organizers to get more background on the biannual fair, which is scheduled to take place this weekend. more ›

The 2012 Autumn/Winter edition of Shanghai Fashion Week just wrapped up yesterday, showcasing some of China's upcoming designers. Actor Chen Ye and Designer Xiao Yu made appearances at the show, which took place in Xintiandi from April 11-17. more ›

Chinese factories in Italy are not only driving the "fast fashion" industry of cheap goods, but pushing Italians out of an industry that has historically been identified with them. [Al-Jazeera] more ›

Delegates from all corners of the People's Republic have gathered in Beijing for the "Two Sessions" (ie., the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference), but aside from some ridiculous things that delegates are bound to say from time to time, there's really little else for the average unpolitically-minded person to look at. So netizens have trained their eyes instead on some of the expensive gear that delegates have shown up in to see what's in this season. more ›

Wearing a suit, sprayed with perfume and topped with a dyed red mohawk, Zhou Fei (周飞) has made himself an online celebrity as "the most fashionable beggar in China." more ›

Eco-consciousness is beginning to awaken in Shanghai. An increasing number of Shanghai designers have been adopting sustainable practices into their manufacturing process. I asked Heather Kaye and Itee Soni, the two designers behind FINCH Shanghai, who aims to introduce sustainability and social consciousness into their design process to the Chinese market. more ›

We recently chanced upon a "secret showroom" in Shanghai. It's massively exciting to go to a secret location (in this case, an apartment in Chang Ping Road) and you get to meet the designer and review his entire Spring/Summer collection! more ›

Fashion Friday is a brand new weekly column that will appear on Shanghaiist every Friday, 9am on the dot. Here's where you'll find the latest on what's hot, what's not, meet designers, and get your fix on fashion events going about in town. more ›

Fashion Friday is a brand new weekly column that will appear on Shanghaiist every Friday. Here's where you'll find the latest on what's hot, what's not, meet designers, and get your fix on fashion events going about in town. more ›

We recently chanced upon a great fashion blog, AnyWearStyle.com who’s a fashion platform to document the rapid evolution of fashion in China - from emerging Chinese designers, photographers, creatives, to international brands doing pioneering events in China. more ›

Fashion Friday is a brand new weekly column that will appear on Shanghaiist every Friday, 9am on the dot. Here's where you'll find the latest on what's hot, what's not, meet designers, and get your fix on fashion events going about in town. more ›

Fashion Friday is a brand new weekly column that will appear on Shanghaiist every Friday, 9am on the dot. Here's where you'll find the latest on what's hot, what's not, meet designers, and get your fix on fashion events going about in town. more ›

Closet Swap is back once again to help you cleanse your wardrobe of all those lightly-used discards cluttering up the closet space. Just choose the items you want to swap, take them over the William the Beekeeper boutique by October 19 and recieve tokens. Then bring those tokens to the swap on October 22 at the Apartment. more ›

The Ice Cream Truck's Design, Art & Fashion Fair at Wharf 1846 featured fashion shows, DJ's and fine food, along with a variety of local artists, designers, and other artisans turning out to connect with the local hipster community. It was the sort lazy weekend afternoon gathering of creatives that one might take for granted in any number of with-it urban centers, but happens all too rarely in a city like Shanghai. more ›

Last Sunday night marked the return of the annual Vogue's Fashion's Night Out (摩登不夜城) in China - the after-sundown one-night-only event that highlights fashion and supports retail with special events. Invading Shanghai for the first time, FNO took over Huaihai Lu - stretching from Printemps-Shanghai to Shanghai Times Square. more ›

This just in! Ever since that mysterious Forever 21 sign was spotted over on Nanjing Dong Lu, we've been wondering just what exactly they've got in the works over by the Bund. Lo and behold, Nanjing East is planning something called a BIG BRAND SHAKE UP! Whereby they plan to make their strip equally as popular with the young and fashionable as their Nanjing West counterpart. Here's what you can look forward to: more ›

We can't find a trace of this on other news sites or even on their own official page, however as you can see by this photo we received as a tip, there are signs for this popular American fast fashion retailer all over Nanjing Dong Lu. Forever 21 in Shanghai? That's something to talk about. The brand so far has no presence in China and if signs are up...well, the store can't be more than a few months away from opening. (Did a million teenage girls just squeal right there? Hell, did another million twenty-something females squeal?) We wonder how their pricing will be done considering that all the clothes are manufactured in China anyway. Are they gonna pass on the savings of shipping costs to the customers? We suppose their stuff is at Qipulu prices to begin with. more ›

Photos courtesy of Shanghai Style. more ›

A new exhibition of Louis Vuitton luggage and handbags at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square is getting off to a flying start, proving offensive on both artistic and patriotic grounds. more ›

We aren't expecting any big fight-inducing line ups for this thing, but as we mentioned earlier, if you are interested in dressing like an 8th grader from Minnesota, American Eagle Outfitters will be swinging open their doors on Saturday, May 28. The store is located in the busy shopping area of Nanjing Xi Lu just a stone's throw away from other large global retailers such as GAP, H&M, and Uniqlo. In addition to the Shanghai store, the company will be unveiling locations in Beijing and Hong Kong. more ›

Over the weekend, savvy buyers headed over to Cotton's on Xinhua Lu for the city's first closet swap. In the days leading up to the inaugural event, shoppers stopped by the William the BeeKeeper boutique to exchange their gently-used clothes for tickets. Come Saturday, all people had to do was show up, tickets ready in hand, and rummage through the stacks of clothing. As they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure. more ›

Shanghai's edition of the Converse Block Party on Saturday was simply brand perpetuation at its finest. At least until the police became adamant about keeping it real, closing the event down due to overcrowding. With a street section next to M50 Creative Garden cordoned off for the festivities, Converse came through and provided the very with-it crowd an awesome opportunity to chill out. more ›

Continuing a string of hits for Asian fashion, today the edgy V magazine published their 70th edition "and this landmark issue for V celebrates all things eastern, from the Heroes who continue to inspire us to the Muses who make the creative world turn." They've done an excellent job profiling some of the most intriguing stars in Chinese fashion, art, and entertainment. Aside from interviewing Gong Li and Nancy Kwan, two of the most recognizable Chinese screen sirens in film history, the mag dedicates pages to the rising models of China’s Longteng agency and the established catwalkers: Liu Wen who was the first-ever Asian Victoria's Secret's runway model, Shu Pei, face of Vera Wang, and Sun Feifei the up and coming "it" model. Sir David Tang of Shanghai Tang has a chat with Kate Moss, Diane Von Furstenberg and Dolce and Gabbana talk about their trips to China. "Vanishing" artist Liu Bolin and the imprisoned Ai Weiwei also make cameos. more ›

If you didn't make it to this weekend's Midi music festival, then you're probably going to feel the dull ache of regret after taking a gander at the sort of people who did. more ›

Yvan Rodic, the photographer behind world-famous street style blog Face Hunter dropped into Shanghai over the weekend. He was at high-end boutique Alter for his book signing Friday but seems like he also found some time on his quick stop to go looking for Shanghai's most stylish over on Huaihai Lu. Check out who he checked out here. more ›

Designer and founder of Suzhou Cobblers, Denise Huang, held a fashion show over the weekend featuring many colorful folksy looks on her models. more ›

You know what they say...one man's trash is another man's treasure. Now's the time to do a bit of spring cleaning and clear out some of your unwanted, gently-used clothes because the good people at the William the BeeKeeper boutique are putting together the first annual Shanghai Closet Swap on May 14th. more ›

Though the clothes have been out for a while (and many of the celebrities themselves wore the dresses shown on the catwalk to the event), Marc Jacobs gave the fashion crowd an excuse to come out and take in an electric seventies feel collection. more ›