Almost 100 fashion brands - from up-and-coming designers to major fashion groups - presented their collections during Shanghai Fashion Week. The variety of styles was extensive, ranging from minimalist, casual to avant-garde. Some ingredients, however, could be found across catwalks. Here are six autumn/winter 2025 trends from China. Fringe...
Apr 11, 2025
The catwalks and showrooms at Shanghai Fashion Week impressed with variety and quality in the AW25 season, especially among the younger labels. The country's budding fashion scene is profiting from the local manufacturing expertise and has evolved rapidly over the past decade, despite a tough apparel market that is showing some signs of...
Apr 7, 2025
While Paris Fashion Week begins to heat up, over in China, Shanghai Fashion Week has confirmed its line up for the spring/summer 2025 season, with a number of notable guests making their debut. Among them is none other than British luxury label Vivienne Westwood, which will be headlining the fashion week in a show on its final presentation day....
Sep 24, 2024
Swedish fashion giant H&M has announced it will be partnering with Shanghai Fashion Week on a new collaborative collection with Chinese designers in a bid to showcase local design. Set to be released in autumn 2024, the collection will come as part of the duo’s efforts to diversify commercial channels and leverage fashion industry resources as...
Apr 9, 2024
At Shanghai Fashion Week this season, collections mixed classic pieces and details - including references to traditional Chinese clothing - with modern silhouettes and cuts. Overall, designers seemed to be in a celebratory mood, dressing models in long, flowing gowns, revitalising the post-Covid trend of the roaring 20s. In contrast, there were...
Apr 8, 2024
Sportswear brand Adidas is teaming up with Edison Chen, founder and creative director of Hong Kong-based streetwear label CLOT, after unveiling the inaugural collection during Shanghai Fashion Week. In a statement, Adidas said that the Adidas Originals by Edison Chen global partnership marks the designer’s return to the brand to begin “a new era...
Oct 16, 2023
Details of the upcoming SS24 Shanghai Fashion Week (SFW) have been unveiled, with the event set to become more intertwined with the international fashion industry and sectors beyond than ever before. This is largely down to the theme of the season, ‘Synergy’, defined as dynamic links that in this case revolve around home and abroad, fashion and...
Sep 26, 2023
Shanghai Design Week (SHDW) announced during an event at London Fashion Week that by 2030 the Shanghai municipal government plans to develop the city into a world-class design capital. It estimates the total creative design industry’s output this year to be 1.6 trillion RMB (205.5 billion euros or 219.3 billion dollars) and has set a target to...
Sep 18, 2023
China’s luxury market took a hit in 2022, ending a five-year run of growth in the region as it faced the aftermath of lengthy lockdowns and heightened Covid-19 measures. However, as 2023 progresses, it appears the sector is once again on its way up, as brands and retailers cautiously emerge from confinement and begin to reinvent themselves for...
Apr 7, 2023
Chinese-born Feng Chen Wang took to the metaverse to present a new made-to-measure collection as part of Shanghai Fashion Week. Created with support from virtual reality innovation centre Inert Plan, the show saw the London-based designer explore the boundaries between the real and the virtual worlds. Pieces in the digital collection were made...
Jun 20, 2022
The Istituto Marangoni Shanghai has presented some of its graduates' SS22 collections at Shanghai Fashion Week (SHFW). Eight graduates from the Istituto Marangoni Shanghai collaborated with Guangzhou-based fashion brand Ricostru, a label founded by a team of designers under one of the school’s alumni, fashion designer Rico Manchi Au. The...
Oct 18, 2021
In this video, Nicole Milano has presented her FW21 collection at Shanghai Fashion Week SIFS. Watch the video below. Video: APAX Group川力企划 via YouTube Photo credit: Shanghai Fashion Week
Apr 13, 2021