He didn’t care that China Fashion Week had ended.
Tag: Beijing Street Style
At a Coffee Shop
In a very tight coffee shop right near the China Fashion Week venues, I met Ms. Guo Pei (éƒåŸ¹), one of the most well-known Chinese designers. As I was heading in, she was leaving, together with Cabeen (here’s his show), another major designer. One of my biggest regrets this week is that I did not make the trip out to the Olympic Green to see her show. It just seemed too far and I was feeling a bit moody on Friday night. Her work is covered in the China Daily, Fashion Wire Daily, and the All China Women’s Federation, to name a few. Check her SS ’10 show. The theme was the thousand and second night. Here’s her blog, also.
Cargo Shorts
China Fashion Week even brings out dapper outside people. I don’t encounter outfits like this Frenchman’s so often, here in Beijing, but he has been here over a decade, he says.
Beauty Berry Fan
An attendee at most of the key China Fashion Week events, this handsome editor was outside of the Beauty Berry show, which he thought was very nice. His boots, in this pic, are actually covered on the outside in wool.
Interestingly this China Daily piece does not even mention Beauty Berry, focusing on other brands that I thought were much less impressive.
You know you have been in China for a long time when you can write several posts on a brand called Beauty Berry without even commenting on the name.
Outside Beauty Berry
Beauty Berry was very much anticipated by Beijing’s fops, fashionistas, and pretty boys and they were out in force. Designer Wang Yutao (王玉涛) should be pleased that the audience was very receptive, if comments from several magazine editors can be taken as a measure. A surprise appearance by supermodel Lv Yan bolstered the show, bringing a flurry of applause from the audience. I would be interested to find out where Beauty Berry pieces can be had.
China Fashion Week Photographer
This photographer has been at quite a few of the shows at China Fashion Week SS ’10.
Feline is Forever
Just look at the runways at China Fashion Week SS ’10. I encountered this young lady in the subway on the way to the Qi Gang show, where big cats were in evidence. But this was not the only show immersing spectators in themes from the jungle and Beijingers these days seem never to get enough leopard scarves, flats, bags, neckties and jackets. Is leopard “classic” now like blue and white stripes or gray herringbone?
Notice that this is one of the first times that I have broken my usual rule of steering clear of those with brand names visible. Yes, I am a member of that snobbish and reactionary anti-logo crew. They should be paying her to carry a bag that is an advertisement in itself.
At Entra, China Fashion Week
I ran into this stylist after the Entra show, on the second day of China Fashion Week. Behind him are the buses that took press from the Beijing Hotel venue to D-Park, out at 798. All media members were provided with a free, authentic, Big Mac dinner on the way back from 798 to the middle of town. I’d never had a Big Mac before and I never thought my first one would come after watching hundreds of emaciated models.
After Mihuang Show, China Fashion Week 2009
Held at the Beijing Hotel and D-Park at 798, the second 2009 China Fashion Week celebrates the designs of brands based all around China, but with something of a focus in Guangdong and Zhejiang. I will have quite a more on this later, but for now here is Terry, a stylist at Tony Studio, after the “Mihuang” Qi Gang Cashmere High Class Fashion Show.
Bye Bye Disco
From a small town in Yunnan, Peipei runs Bye Bye Disco, one of the most notable shops on Nanluoguxiang, with boyfriend Pang Kuan, a member of disco-punk hybrid act New Pants. More on Bye Bye Disco on the website of That’s Beijing, a magazine that is now defunct. This place is beloved of foreigners, who come for the iconic Feiyue sneakers (available all the way up to size 47 at Bye Bye Disco). Feiyue is so hip these days that there is even a blog.
Festive Graphic Artist
Su Hang is a graphic designer who runs his a business with his wife, Mimi, in Beijing’s CBD. I met him at the opening dinner for a very chic new restaurant called Hanshe (汉èˆ) for which he did much of the design of promotional and other materials. Buying much of his wardrobe in Hong Kong, Su Hang normally dresses in a eye-catching manner.
Velvet jackets are fairly common, but one doesn’t encounter bow ties so frequently. It strikes me that that I should attempt to replicate this outfit for some of the upcoming holiday parties (that I am already hearing about).
Queen of City Life
What a rebellious outfit! I was pleased to encounter charming but irreverent Shanghaier Ding Ying (ä¸é¢–）the other day, after not seeing her for almost two years. She was the first editor from a major publication to profile me, not so long after Stylites started. Over a year after my profile appeared in the City Life section of Modern Weekly, Ding Ying suggested to her colleague Chen Pu that I might write a weekly column for them. I am especially proud of this, the only column that I write in Chinese.
After seven years at Modern Weekly, she is moving on next month to be features editor at a big fashion magazine. Maybe she will be the next Chinese female editor compared to Anna Wintour.
Funny that when googling, the first pic of her is with someone else who has been on Stylites.
Chic Pic Maker
I ran into my friend, photographer Anne Li – who has appeared here before – at the NOTCH (Nordic and Chinese arts) festival that just opened. Being a gentleman and a sophisticate, I immediately poured her some coca-cola in a champagne flute.
The press gift at NOTCH was the second best I have ever received: the collectible October 2009 Wallpaper* with its provocative Karl Lagerfeld cover. The best gift from an event I ever received was the full-sized bottles of Vidal Sassoon shampoo and conditioner received at the opening of Izzue in Sanlitun. I like swag I can use, as opposed to the multitude of passport picture holders and glasses frame liners one gets from the luxury brands.
Reading their comments in this Wallpaper*, Lagerfeld seems pretty arrogant and, despite all his brilliance and eccentricity, hollow in comparison to Philippe Starck.
Porcelain and Bus
Graphic designer June picked up her dress at a second-hand shop on Gulou street.
She has quite a collection of pendants.
This one is of a bus.
Northeastern Designers
Vanessa is from Harbin and her boyfriend is from Shenyan. She is a graphic designer and he makes 3D cartoons or something like that. They have been to Beijing for less than a year, but plan to stay.
By the way, Harbin is one of my favorite places in China. Feed a duck to the tigers in Siberian Tiger Park. The suspense is intense as the tiger awkwardly paddles through the pond in pursuit. The ducks just nonchalantly cruise along as if there is no monster cat a meter behind, but they sometimes do even escape, unlike the chicken or pheasants who have no chance. Also make sure to have a shot of an obscure vodka at the Russian Café, on Zhongyang Lu, probably my favorite café in the world. Shenyang is not such a must-see, though it does have a very manageably-sized mini-Forbidden City built by Nurhaci as well as several late-90s examaples of provinical “shock-architecture.”