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CHINESE Fashion News, Sep 08, 2011


Tired Western brands find new life in Asia
The Associated Press
Taking into account purchases made abroad by globe-trotting Chinese, they are already the second-biggest spenders on luxury goods, experts at Bain said. China'sdemand for brand-name consumer goods is also reflected in Italian fashion house Prada's ...
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The Associated Press
Fashion retailers turn to China-based wholesalers to cut-costs
B&T Marketing & Media
By Jessica Kennedy on 8 September 2011 The number of Australian fashion retailers bypassing local wholesalers and sourcing their apparel from markets such as China has jumped over the past year as they duel with the e-commerce boom and sliding consumer ...
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Fashion's Night Out hits Vegas once again
Las Vegas Review-Journal
You'll find Chinese tarot readings at Eric Andrew Collection, makeovers at Dior Beauty, facials at Fresh and champagne flowing in a slew of other boutiques. The big event here, though, is Las Vegas' Best New Designer contest. ...
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Expectations high from Xiamen fair
China Daily
"It was a great success for our delegation last year, because our pavilion was visited by more than 700 Chinese businesspeople." Therefore, "we have almost doubled the size of our exhibition this year, which promotes our region's fashion, furniture, ...
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Jessica Gomes talks curves, high fashion and FNO
The Vine
But it is in South Korea where the model - who is of mixed Chinese and Spanish heritage - is most successful, working as a TV personality. It took a while for Australians to come around, but they've finally come to appreciate Gomes, particularly in the ...
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Burberry: The Best of British Digital Innovation
Huffington Post UK
The first fashion brand to livestream its runway shows, the first to sell live from the catwalk online and in-store via iPad, the one and only brand to attempt a 3D holographic film immersion for itsChina launch, Burberry is the most digitally ...
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“Looking Both Ways” art exhibit planned at North Campus Research Complex
University of Michigan Health System News (press release)
8 to Oct. 21 and will feature special performances of traditional dance, music andfashion from China and Taiwan on Sept. 19 and Oct. 8. Both the exhibit and the performances are free and open to the public. More information is available at ...
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University of Michigan Health System News (press release)
Can China win Miss Universe?
CNNGo.com
She's also been called the "Chinese Oprah." Kan rose to fame in United States for hosting the TV show “Looking East” back in the 1970s. Her short bobbed hair and red lips were a synonym of fashion in China in the 1980s and early 1990s. ...
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CNNGo.com
Kuala Lumpur Hotels Have a Passion for Fashion
MarketWatch (press release)
Kee, 35, has become an established name in the Malaysian bridal and couture fashion industry and will be introducing his new batik cheongsam collection at the Miss Chinese Cosmos International 2011 finals in Hong Kong in October and will make a debut ...
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Kylie Jenner to make her New York Fashion Week debut
Monsters and Critics.com
... arrivals at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California. - Russ Einhorn / Splash News The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star will make her runway debut on Monday at the Abbey Dawn by Avril Lavigne show at New York Fashion Week. ...
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Monsters and Critics.com
A Warm Welcome and a Spectacular Celebration in Los Angeles for the Inaugural ...
PR Newswire (press release)
This was followed by the crowd-pleasing fashion show featuring Air China's flight attendants from Beijing and ground crew in Los Angeles in their dazzling uniforms. Guests broke into wild applause and grabbed their cameras as Grammy winner Kenny G ...
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Buying 'many many' in Guangzhou
New Straits Times
Our guide, Mohamad Firdous Kamarul Jaman, had earlier taught us some techniques on the way to the plaza, the wholesale centre for household goods, toys and fashion accessories. English is not widely spoken — if at all — in Guangzhou and though it may ...
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$1.2B of $13B Chinese pledges
Malaya
The CAF is a private equity fund targeting small and medium businesses in Southeast Asia andChina. Other investments are from Luen Thai, a global leader in the fashion industry; Sinoma, a company engaged in waste water heat recovery, and; ...
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Taiwan: The DPP and Its Dilemmas
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
But they were insistent that the “one China principle” needs to be addressed in somefashion to sustain the current trade, tourism, and other arrangements. Now that the DPP has failed to meet China's test for seriousness of intentions, Beijing faces ...
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
New Media, Old Model: Phoenix New Media in Mobile and Online Video
Business Insider
In one example of new content for the new medium, Phoenix just announced an original web series called “Let's Talk Honestly,” a talk show that covers daily issues in the lives of young Chinese. With such a similar advertising-based model, ...
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World's Largest Timepiece Event Opens in Hong Kong
MarketWatch (press release)
The fair, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the Hong Kong Watch Manufacturers Association Ltd and the Federation of Hong Kong Watch Trades and Industries Ltd, features group pavilions from the Chinese mainland, ...
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Lagarde Uses IMF Role to Seek End to Debt Haggling
Bloomberg
Zhu is the first Chinese deputy managing director since the fund's founding in 1945. Zhu's nomination is one way in which Lagarde, who has worked and lived in France and the US throughout her career, is extending her influence beyond the West, ...
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But Where Are The Asian Male Models?
Forbes (blog)
This ubiquity of female Asian models begs the question, Where are their male counterparts? Is men's fashion just as slow to embrace models of Asian descent as it is new trends? When will there be a Chinese man on the cover of GQ or Details? ...
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Forbes (blog)
Designers hint at what's next
Houston Chronicle
By MICHAEL QUINTANILLA, FASHION WRITER Tommy Hilfigerís inspiration ìis the optimism of the 1960s.î Heíll stick to classic reds and blues that will anchor his collection. A key item will be the shirtdress ìre-imagined in a classic menís oxford fabric ...
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Renren Xiaozhan Light Blogging Service Officially Launched
MarketWatch (press release)
Users have instant access to a broad spectrum of interest groups, including photography, fashion, travel, design, movies, among others. Xiaozhan blogs can be easily customized for creative multimedia posts which allow users with common interests to ...
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NEWSMAKER-Saab CEO, eternal optimist, seeks a saviour
Reuters
Muller, 51, is a former mergers and acquisitions lawyer who made his fortune from Dutch fashionbrand McGregor -- he typically looks smartly dressed in press shots in a country where casual attire is the norm. He then turned his attention to Spyker, ...
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Crystal Renn Wasn't Trying To 'Look Asian' In That Eye Tape Shoot
Jezebel
Karl Lagerfeld shot a video with a bunch of European models, including Freja [Beha Erichsen], and he taped their eyes — but with an express intention of making them appear to be Chinese, because the video was set in Shanghai in the 1920s. Fashion does ...
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'Labour disputes in copper mines push LME prices to above $9K'
Commodity Online
... companies to replenish their thermal Coal stocks in a timely fashion. Thermal coal inventory levels in Hunan province are apparently at less than half the level a year ago. Ironically, Shanxi, the notable coal producing province in China, ...
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Soothing palette at Christian L'Enfant Roi
Montreal Gazette
Naturally, the trousers were all dropcrotch. The designer had the print, with kitschy Chinese figures, made by a New York company. He wore a shirt with that print to a show at fashion week, noting he had to order quite a lot of fabric. ...
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Showcasing the Masters, Old and New
New York Times
Zhang Huan rose to international recognition as one of the foremost avant-gardeChinese artists in the 1990s, with punishing physical performance pieces in which he was often naked, sometimes in masochistic actions, and that were photographed to create ...
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New York Times
Flee the temples of consumerism
New Times SLO
But we need all that hot new stuff; those great fashion trends, the latest gizmos and gadgets, cute little things to decorate our life. We hungry American consumers gobble them up. The corporate machine grinds away for one purpose: to get us to spend ...
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Content Marketing World: Regina Brett God's Storyteller
Technorati
Regina tells stories the old fashion way – with words. I could never have guessed how appropriate the title of Regina's talk Emotion and Storytelling: Growing Your Small Business/Non-Profit by Pulling Heartstrings” at Joe Pulizzi's Content Marketing ...
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Technorati
Montgomery teacher offers gateways to Islam
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
At front from left is a hand, an ancient Jewish or Islamic piece of art; a Chinese Buddha; a Jewish dreidel; a traditional Buddha from Nepal or India. At back from left is Allah written in Arabic, a picture of Mary, Jesus and Joseph; and Muslim prayer ...
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Tess Gerritsen: Breaking out her writing instincts
New Zealand Herald
That stuck with Gerritsen, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American, for a long time. Even as she toned down the romance and turned up the thrills as her career flourished, that reticence towards evoking her own culture remained. ...
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Richemont reaps rewards on Asian opulence
BusinessLIVE
The research also found that with the surge in the number of luxury stores, fashionmagazines, and web sites and the use of social media, Chinese consumers are now familiar with nearly twice as many brands as they were in 2008, further fuelling the ...
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BusinessLIVE
Korean Starchitect H-Sang Seung on Helming the Gwangju Biennale With an ...
ARTINFO
Seung served as the artistic co-director of this year's Gwangju Design Biennale, a title he shared withChinese artist and architect Ai Weiwei before, during, and after Ai's three-month detention. At the intersection of Seung's architectural vision and ...
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Banks' £50bn bonus
The Sun
ELECTRICAL retailer CURRYS is now the height of fashion, its boss claims. John Browett says the store, best known for selling fridges and other domestic appliances, is becoming "cool" as teenagers flock to buy headphones, right. ...
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The Sun
Norway In or Out
Resource Investor
The recent metal's chart is not only looking like a bad EKG, it is likely giving arrhythmias to many who have sought it out for the protection it is presumed to offer at a time when everything else is wobbling in scary fashion. ...
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The End Of The Gold Bull As We Know It?
Seeking Alpha
Turning on CNBC, the permanent ticker at the bottom-right of the screen now displays Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq and gold quotes in repeating, alternating fashion. For gold to be getting the same degree of attention as the S&P 500 is astounding, ...
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Fall Arts Preview: Classical music
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Set designer and fashion icon Zandra Rhodes turned her talents to the opera in a production for San Diego Opera in 2004, and the Opera will revive it with two alumni of its Resident Artist program in lead roles, Craig Verm as Zurga and Sean Panikkar as ...
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Lifestyle & Entertainment News | Books, Music, Movies, Fashion ...
South China Morning Post. Monday, September 05 ... "At the Chinese University camp, I did DNA profiling for paternal verification. At PolyU, I got to tinker with ...
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Zee Report::Fashion news Foreign firms in China under growing ...
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