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Beyond the Activation: How SKP-S Is Building Reasons to Return

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 Price Point to Brand Equity: Tmall’s Singles’ Day Tests China’s Premium Fashion Ambitions

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.

What Amazon Searches Reveal About Beauty’s Next Growth Opportunities

From biotech ingredients to mood-focused fragrances, new search and sales data reveals how health, science and wellness are influencing beauty consumption.

Beyond the Activation: How SKP-S Is Building Reasons to Return

WEEKLY BRIEF

Coach drives 39% Greater China growth for Tapestry.

Ralph Lauren’s China revenue rises more than 35%.

Canada Goose records 32.5% Greater China growth.

Qeelin launches a standalone pure-gold brand.

Sierra Designs opens its first China store in Shanghai.

Guangzhou Beauty Week puts Chinese beauty globalization at the center.

China’s fragrance ecosystem becomes more professionalized.

L’Oréal deepens its China innovation strategy at CIIE.

Amorepacific brings longevity science and four global launches to China.

Exclusive products become a growth engine for luxury during 11.11.

Neo-Luxury Economy

The Visionary | Sara Sozzani Maino on Talent, Time and Fashion’s Next Generation

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.

Beyond the Product: How Chinese Beauty Brands Can Win Over Global Consumers

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.

Beyond the Gaze: How Yici is Redefining Luxury Through Feeling

Yici is redefining contemporary Chinese luxury through tactility, emotional resonance, and ceramic design—building objects meant not just to be seen, but lived with.

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From Symbols to Sensuality: To Summer and Isabel Marant Collaborate to Build Cross-Cultural Resonance

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.

How Mihan Aromatics Turns Australian Memory Into Fragrance Poetry

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.

Can Chinese Folk Craft Become a Sustainable Business? Meidehen Is Testing the Model

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.

Beyond the Gaze: How Yici is Redefining Luxury Through Feeling

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

Fashion Asia at 10: From Showcasing Asian Design to Building a Fashion Ecosystem

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 Won in Court. Why Did China’s Consumers Side With Molly Tea?

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.

Chinese Fragrance Industry Gains Visibility at Esxence 2026

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.

Why Young Chinese Consumers Are Falling in Love With Jingdezhen Ceramics

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

Weekly Brief | Dior Bets on Shanghai, Hermès Expands in Chengdu, and Premium Retail Gets More Experiential

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, […]

Weekly Brief | China Consumer Market: Diverging Fortunes in Luxury, Retail Realignment, and the Fight for New Users | June 15, 2026

Luxury recovery, retail reshuffling, and aggressive user acquisition strategies are redefining competition across the China consumer market.

Market Brief | China Consumer Market: Selective Expansion, Structural Shifts | May 22, 2026

A bi-weekly overview of luxury recovery, retail restructuring, strategic investment, and beauty sector developments shaping the China consumer market.

Weekly Brief | China Consumer Market: Luxury Divergence and Beauty Recovery | April 27, 2026

A weekly overview of luxury, beauty, retail, and investment developments shaping the China consumer market in 2026.

The Visionary

The Visionary｜For Mona Kattan, Joy Comes in a Bottle

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.

The Visionary | Sara Sozzani Maino on Talent, Time and Fashion’s Next Generation

The Long Game: Proya’s Bet on Science and the Future of Chinese Beauty

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.

Zixin Zhong and the Architecture of Chinese Elegance

Zixin Zhong blends Art Deco structure with Chinese restraint to build a globally resonant Chinese fashion brand. Featured at 2025 Fashion Asia Hong Kong, her work explores interior worlds, ritual, and enduring design.

Highlighted Articles

Beyond the Activation: How SKP-S Is Building Reasons to Return

WEEKLY BRIEF

Neo-Luxury Economy

The Visionary | Sara Sozzani Maino on Talent, Time and Fashion’s Next Generation

Beyond the Product: How Chinese Beauty Brands Can Win Over Global Consumers

Beyond the Gaze: How Yici is Redefining Luxury Through Feeling

Jingzhi Brand

From Symbols to Sensuality: To Summer and Isabel Marant Collaborate to Build Cross-Cultural Resonance

How Mihan Aromatics Turns Australian Memory Into Fragrance Poetry

Can Chinese Folk Craft Become a Sustainable Business? Meidehen Is Testing the Model

Beyond the Gaze: How Yici is Redefining Luxury Through Feeling

Jingzhi Voice

Fashion Asia at 10: From Showcasing Asian Design to Building a Fashion Ecosystem

Louis Vuitton Won in Court. Why Did China’s Consumers Side With Molly Tea?

Chinese Fragrance Industry Gains Visibility at Esxence 2026

Why Young Chinese Consumers Are Falling in Love With Jingdezhen Ceramics

Market Briefing

Weekly Brief | Dior Bets on Shanghai, Hermès Expands in Chengdu, and Premium Retail Gets More Experiential

Weekly Brief | China Consumer Market: Diverging Fortunes in Luxury, Retail Realignment, and the Fight for New Users | June 15, 2026

Market Brief | China Consumer Market: Selective Expansion, Structural Shifts | May 22, 2026

Weekly Brief | China Consumer Market: Luxury Divergence and Beauty Recovery | April 27, 2026

The Visionary

The Visionary｜For Mona Kattan, Joy Comes in a Bottle

The Visionary | Sara Sozzani Maino on Talent, Time and Fashion’s Next Generation

The Long Game: Proya’s Bet on Science and the Future of Chinese Beauty

Zixin Zhong and the Architecture of Chinese Elegance

Beyond the Activation: How SKP-S Is Building Reasons to Return

The Visionary｜For Mona Kattan, Joy Comes in a Bottle

From Price Point to Brand Equity: Tmall’s Singles’ Day Tests China’s Premium Fashion Ambitions

The Visionary | Sara Sozzani Maino on Talent, Time and Fashion’s Next Generation

How Efficacy-Based Hair & Body Care Is Powering the Next Engine of Growth

China’s Silver Generation is Helping Legacy Domestic Brands Break Through

The New Face of Beauty: China’s Brands Rewrite the Playbook

The Curious Case of Labubu’s Chinese Identity

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