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Kent State students make it to Beijing Fashion Week

East meets west is a constant inspiration for fashion students, but the theme took on a distinctly personal angle for 6 students from Ohio’s Kent State University when they were invited to show their senior collections alongside 4 students from Taiwan’s Shih Chien University, and approximately 15 students from Beijing Institute of Fashion...

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Fashion victim: Chinese designers face struggle

A parade of unknowns on the catwalks of Beijing Fashion Week highlights the challenges facing Chinese designers trying to break into an industry dominated by foreign brands: high production costs, excessive retail prices, and customers who still favour Western labels. Not a single international fashion house exhibited at the show, much of which...