Through a Peanuts collaboration, a refreshed New Ivy identity, and a flexible retail strategy, ImagineX Group is helping Brooks Brothers reinterpret its American heritage for contemporary Chinese consumers.
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From fitness recovery sessions to skincare masterclasses, Beijing’s SKP-S is moving beyond one-off retail activations. Through recurring programming, curated brand experiences and membership services, the destination is exploring how luxury retail can build lasting consumer relationships.
As China's premium fashion market evolves, Tmall's 2026 Singles' Day offers fresh evidence of a structural shift. Rising order values, stronger brand recognition and repeat purchases suggest that Chinese fashion labels are moving beyond higher price points to build lasting brand equity.
From fitness recovery sessions to skincare masterclasses, Beijing’s SKP-S is moving beyond one-off retail activations. Through recurring programming, curated brand experiences and membership services, the destination is exploring how luxury retail can build lasting consumer relationships.
WEEKLY BRIEF
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Coach drives 39% Greater China growth for Tapestry.
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Ralph Lauren’s China revenue rises more than 35%.
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Canada Goose records 32.5% Greater China growth.
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Qeelin launches a standalone pure-gold brand.
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Sierra Designs opens its first China store in Shanghai.
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Guangzhou Beauty Week puts Chinese beauty globalization at the center.
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China’s fragrance ecosystem becomes more professionalized.
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L’Oréal deepens its China innovation strategy at CIIE.
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Amorepacific brings longevity science and four global launches to China.
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Exclusive products become a growth engine for luxury during 11.11.
Neo-Luxury Economy
Through a Peanuts collaboration, a refreshed New Ivy identity, and a flexible retail strategy, ImagineX Group is helping Brooks Brothers reinterpret its American heritage for contemporary Chinese consumers.
After decades of championing emerging designers, Sara Sozzani Maino believes fashion’s future depends on more than discovering new talent. During this year’s Fashion Asia Hong Kong, she reflects on the changing meaning of craftsmanship, the importance of cultural exchange and why investing in the next generation matters more than ever.
Chinese beauty companies have built formidable advantages in product development and supply chains. Winning overseas increasingly depends on something harder to scale: understanding how local consumers discover, evaluate and ultimately trust a brand.
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Jingzhi Brand
Chinese fragrance storytelling is evolving beyond recognisable cultural symbols. Through its collaboration with Isabel Marant, To Summer offers a case study in how Chinese fragrance brands can translate local sensibility through scent, fashion and embodied experience, creating resonance across cultures without flattening their cultural roots.
Founded after Joshua Mihan and Julia Brown returned from London to Melbourne, Mihan Aromatics began as a love letter to Australia. Through genderless parfums rooted in memory, family legacy, and emotional storytelling, the brand is bringing its poetic fragrance language to China’s evolving niche scent community.
At its first concept store in Hangzhou, MEIDEHEN is testing a new model for Chinese folk craft — one built not only on cultural preservation, but on product development, retail demand, and sustainable orders for artisans.
Yici is redefining contemporary Chinese luxury through tactility, emotional resonance, and ceramic design—building objects meant not just to be seen, but lived with.
Jingzhi Voice
At its tenth anniversary, Fashion Asia Hong Kong expanded 10 Asian Designers To Watch across runway, showroom and public exhibition, while the Fashion Challenges Forum tackled the pressures reshaping the industry. Together, the programmes offered a clearer view of the ecosystem being built around Asia’s emerging design talent.
Louis Vuitton’s first-instance trademark victory against Chinese tea chain Molly Tea appears legally straightforward. The public reaction has been anything but, reopening a wider debate over cultural memory, aesthetic authority and who gets to turn shared visual languages into exclusive commercial assets.
At Esxence 2026, China’s fragrance industry gained visibility not only as a growth market, but as a group of key stakeholders entering the global conversation. From buyers studying trends to creators presenting new olfactory languages, Chinese perfumery is beginning to shape how the artistic fragrance world understands China.
From Jingdezhen workshops to curated urban boutiques, ceramics are becoming a new form of lifestyle investment in China. For younger consumers, handmade tableware and tea ware are no longer just functional objects, but carriers of emotional value, aesthetic identity, and daily ritual.
Market Briefing
September 21–27, 2026 Global luxury and fragrance brands continued to invest in China through destination shows, upgraded stores and large-scale market entries, while Chinese brands pushed premiumization at home and tested more ambitious routes abroad. China’s premium consumer market offered few signs of standing still last week. Dior put Shanghai on its global runway calendar, […]
Luxury recovery, retail reshuffling, and aggressive user acquisition strategies are redefining competition across the China consumer market.
A bi-weekly overview of luxury recovery, retail restructuring, strategic investment, and beauty sector developments shaping the China consumer market.
A weekly overview of luxury, beauty, retail, and investment developments shaping the China consumer market in 2026.
The Visionary
Through a Peanuts collaboration, a refreshed New Ivy identity, and a flexible retail strategy, ImagineX Group is helping Brooks Brothers reinterpret its American heritage for contemporary Chinese consumers.
From collecting nearly 1,000 perfumes to building KAYALI, Mona Kattan has made fragrance discovery a personal mission. As the Dubai-born brand enters China through Sephora, she discusses gourmand scents, layering, cultural curiosity and why perfume should be a source of joy.
After decades of championing emerging designers, Sara Sozzani Maino believes fashion’s future depends on more than discovering new talent. During this year’s Fashion Asia Hong Kong, she reflects on the changing meaning of craftsmanship, the importance of cultural exchange and why investing in the next generation matters more than ever.
For Proya founder and chairman Hou Juncheng, building a global beauty company requires more than speed. Following a landmark achievement at the IFSCC Congress, he reflects on scientific innovation, international ambitions, and his vision for China’s beauty industry.
Through a Peanuts collaboration, a refreshed New Ivy identity, and a flexible retail strategy, ImagineX Group is helping Brooks Brothers reinterpret its American heritage for contemporary Chinese consumers....
From fitness recovery sessions to skincare masterclasses, Beijing’s SKP-S is moving beyond one-off retail activations. Through recurring programming, curated brand experiences and membership services, the destination is exploring how luxury retail can build lasting consumer relationships....
From collecting nearly 1,000 perfumes to building KAYALI, Mona Kattan has made fragrance discovery a personal mission. As the Dubai-born brand enters China through Sephora, she discusses gourmand scents, layering, cultural curiosity and why perfume should be a source of joy....
As China's premium fashion market evolves, Tmall's 2026 Singles' Day offers fresh evidence of a structural shift. Rising order values, stronger brand recognition and repeat purchases suggest that Chinese fashion labels are moving beyond higher price points to build lasting brand equity....
The surge of increasingly niche products often signals a market set to soar....
Brands should reexamine aging as a process through a cultural lens....
The fiscal 2024 not only underscored the growing maturity and competitiveness of China’s homegrown players, but also revealed deepening fault lines within the sector....
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