Fish Skin Robes Meet Silk at Beijing Fashion Institute

Fish Skin Robes Meet Silk at Beijing Fashion Institute

An exhibition of ethnic dress opened on 20 October at the Tongzhou campus of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, drawing on more than a hundred pieces from the university’s own collection. Titled One Thread, One Heart, it runs as a permanent display in the ground-floor gallery of building A1, free with an appointment, on Wednesdays, […]

Harper's Bazaar Brings 150 Craft Designs to Jiangyin

Harper’s Bazaar Brings 150 Craft Designs to Jiangyin

Harper’s Bazaar China held the 2026 edition of its From China programme in Jiangyin, Wuxi, on 20 and 21 October, and the design exhibition attached to it went on public view on 22 October with more than 150 shortlisted works on show. Held at the Xiake Xing theme park in Xiake Bay Science City, the […]

Why AW26 Neo-Chinese Shortened the Mamianqun Hem

Why AW26 Neo-Chinese Shortened the Mamianqun Hem

Autumn-winter 2026 collections in the Neo-Chinese category changed their specification sheets before they changed their patterns. The Mamianqun hem moved from ankle to mid-calf, the standing collar came down to three or four centimetres, and the Pankou left the placket as a detachable module. Read as styling, these look like taste. Read as production documents, […]

Chinese Labels Abroad Learn to Sell the Product First

Chinese Labels Abroad Learn to Sell the Product First

A leather bag is a poor place to start a lecture on the Central Plains. That, in short, is what one Chinese label learned in Paris. On 10 October, inside the M SPACE talk programme at Shanghai Fashion Week, a forum convened by Yicai gathered three brands from unrelated corners of the market, a bag […]

Why Did Maria Sakkari's Hanfu Look Go Viral?

Why Did Maria Sakkari’s Hanfu Look Go Viral?

When Greek tennis star Maria Sakkari shared photos of herself wearing Hanfu, few fans expected the reaction. Known for power serves and fierce court energy, she usually appears in sportswear or sleek European evening looks. This time, she wore a Ming Dynasty style outfit: a standing-collar, front-buttoned jacket with a horse-face skirt. No dramatic filters, […]

The Tailor Who Stitched Hong Kong Cinema's Cheongsams

The Tailor Who Stitched Hong Kong Cinema’s Cheongsams

A wide worktable takes up nearly half the office of the Hong Kong Cheongsam Association, in a corner of Central where the traffic noise runs under the window. Liu Anqing (刘安庆) bends over the table pressing cloth. He is 78, and he has been at this work for more than sixty years. His trade is […]

Why New Chinese Style Is Going Minimalist in 2026

Why New Chinese Style Is Going Minimalist in 2026

Holiday wardrobes shifted with the calendar this week. Searches for travel outfits climbed across Chinese e-commerce platforms and content communities, and one phrase kept surfacing among younger shoppers: Liubai, the practice of leaving blank, attached to the New Chinese style. Under the National Day dressing and New Chinese photo tags, notes on plain-colour Pankou tops […]

New Chinese Style 2026 Fabric, Form and Setting 1

New Chinese Style 2026: Fabric, Form and Setting

China’s new Chinese-style apparel market passed 250 billion yuan in 2025. Hanfu alone cleared 20 billion yuan, and Caoxian county in Shandong, one of the country’s largest Hanfu manufacturing bases, contributed more than 13 billion yuan of that. The growth figures arrive with a set of problems the trade now recites without being asked: thin […]

Zhou Ye’s Ghostly Ming Hanfu Styling

Zhou Ye’s Ghostly Ming Hanfu Styling

When Zhou Ye (周也) released a new set of Hanfu portraits, viewers expected soft gardens, quiet gestures, and gentle light. Instead, they met red and blue backdrops, a black vest over a green robe, and a mood closer to a ghost story than a spring album. The images quickly split opinion. Some said they were […]

At Milan Fashion Week, HUI Reads the Fan as a Bridge

At Milan Fashion Week, HUI Reads the Fan as a Bridge

The Shenzhen fashion house HUI showed its Spring/Summer 2027 collection, The Fan Code, on the evening of September 27 local time in Italy, at Via Meravigli 7 in central Milan. The venue is Palazzo Turati, an 1880 neo-Renaissance building that now houses the Milan campus of Istituto Marangoni. The campus conversion kept the frescoed rooms, […]

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