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A Festival Couple


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This pictures seems representative of the better-dressed couples at Beijing music festivals. The girls tend to be slightly dressy whereas the boys adopt more of a street wear type of look.

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At PingGu Festival


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The International Labor Day holiday always means music festivals in Beijing and this year there were at least three major ones competing for the attention of music fans, hipsters, and party-animals.

The China Music Valley Festival (中国乐谷音乐季) held this long weekend in gathered at the Yuyang International Ski resort in Beijing’s Ping Gu district was worth the 1.5 hour long journey. The second day’s headliners The Editors, Ladytron and KT Tunstall attracted a diverse crowd that included families, fashionistas and fancy dressed British expats.

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The World of Triple-Major


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It’s a funky world that is growing fast. After less than a year of being open, Triple-Major is rapidly challenging and reinventing fashion standards. The concept store’s own brand has now reached Paris Fashion Week and the iconic punctuation mark necklaces are becoming a must-have around Beijing. Stylites’ Suzy recently sat down with creator Ritchie Chan to discuss recent developments for his shop and brand and also what he has noticed about consumers in Beijing.


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Ritchie Chan在2009年创办了创作机构Triple-Major，致力对时装作重新思考。Triple-Major于2010年在北京开设了一家概念店，将世界各地的前卫和新进设计师首次带到中国。最近，Triple-Major更发展了自己的品牌，并在巴黎时装周展示。

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I.T Girl and Boy

Stephanie Chu is Hong Kong I.T’s Senior Buyer. Wearing a Comme des Garcons scarf, she agrees with my assessment that people living in HK might be more fashionable than their Mainland neighbors but sees this as the result of historical developments. Mainland customers are now shifting from glamour and brand-obsession to a more individual style. She also explained that I.T customers are from the “younger generation” that uses the internet a lot, therefore I.T is concentrating on creating a strong identity concept involving music and web presentation and an original shopping experience in each branch.

To understand the history of I.T, have a look at this interview with brand founder Sham Kar Wai from the WSJ.

Originally from Taiwan, Homer Chou is Chief Stylist of Beijing’s IT Store. Wearing a Junya Watanabe hat, Thom Browne Shirt, Acne Jeans and N.D.C. shoes with Fred Perry dotted socks. He believes that Chinese customers are very intrigued by Japanese style and labels and that they are slowly turning towards a more avant-garde, designer-esque, and individual style of clothing. However, he acknowledges that bigger and more traditional brands like Burberry and Prada still have a larger influence and will continue becoming more popular with Chinese customers, even though their mainland prices tend to be very high due to import taxes and shipping costs.

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Questioning the Showiness

Also at the IT event, Aviva is the senior editor of p1.cn
. Originally from Chongqing, she loves to travel and shop vintage – everything she is wearing is from secondhand shops. She commented that many international and foreign brands are prioritizing the Chinese market and “people and brands in Beijing’s fashion circle love to show off, but most in her country remain very poor”. While most in the circle think expensive is better, Aviva likes a more personal approach to style and as well as fashion that those who “are not so rich can also enjoy”.

She seems to be a bit of a leftie. To me, it always seemed a bit inconsistent that fashion types aren’t more on the right.

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Hint of Square手帕的一交

Modern Media’s genius Li Mengxia shows how a pocket square can work with a shirt-suit.

@李孟夏 的穿着是值得学习。夏天可以穿一套薄的西服加上手帕。他这个其实有点工人范儿加一点优雅的细节。

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A New Style Icon?一个新的Style Icon?

If Weibo (China’s twitter) is any gauge, the real style icon of the Lane Crawford x Opening Ceremony event this past Saturday was less Chloë Sevigny than aspiring actress Xin Yuan. I posted this photo on Weibo on Sunday and it has already been passed on (@ed) 103 times. This is, of course, just one of many photos circulating on Weibo of this young actress. Her dress is designed by a Beijing-based brand called Chictopia.

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Not in Burberry没有穿Burberry


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I know there has been quite a lot here about Burberry, but it was the biggest event in the brand’s longish history and we had two people from Stylites taking photos. The FT has a nice sum-up. Burberry brought Keane, Prada brought the Petshop Boys a couple months ago. Next, I hope some fashion brand will fly David Bowie out. He is rather more important for fashion.

Anyway, let’s see who wasn’t wearing Burberry. Above is GQ Fashion Editor Fashion Editor Dan Cui a high-collared shirt and a dotted Dior Homme jacket.

Photographer Sunny chose a “replica” Hermès scarf. Her main purpose in coming to the event was seeing her favourite singer, Hong Kong star Eason Chan. I wasn’t able to determine how many replicas of Burberry items there were at the event.

 

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In Burberry


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Many people were wearing the latest threads from Burberry. The Vogue EIC Angelica Cheung was wearing the exact same coat that night.

Many items seemed to be from the now available Spring 2011 collection, the theme of which was “heritage biker”. For this collection, designer Christopher Bailey was inspired by biker gear created by Thomas Burberry in the early 1900s. We will try to find out how many of these items are purchased at the full Mainland price. For the time being, have a look at this piece our friends at JingDaily have on the price discrepancy between the Mainland and abroad.

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A-ListerA名单


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Photographed above at the Burberry event, ghostly actress Fan Bingbing leads off a Jing Daily list of China’s growing number of “A-list” style icons garnering international attention for their dress sense. Not one of these brand enveloped individuals has been on Stylites as it turns out.