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CHINESE DESIGNERS ARE STARTING TO HAVE A VOICE IN TODAY'S FASHION ECOSYSTEM
China has had a long tradition of exquisite fashion craftsmanship and unique textile design. Surprisingly though, traditional Chinese craftsmanship is ...
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THE NEW "MADE IN CHINA": TRADITIONAL CRAFTSMANSHIP AND INNOVATIVE DESIGN
China has been a country that has seen many changes and fueled equally many misconceptions about her true status ...
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REVIVE GLOBAL CHIC
DC-based fashion curator FANGYÁN brings China’s best high-end indie designers to the States. A couple of years ago, during the height of the pandemic, Simin Zhu renamed her fledgling company. She came up with FANGYÁN (www.fangyanstores.com) to pay homage to her aim of curating pieces from China with a culturally anchored point of view.
At first, the co-founder’s business model was strictly e-commerce. But the fashion tide turned last year when the women opened pop-up showrooms in Georgetown and New York’s Soho. This year saw a wildly successful pop-up at Wesrfield Montgomery, and these fashion dynamos recently signed a lease to open a brick-and-mortar boutique in Georgetown this winter-showcasing Chinese fashion brands like Mukzin (seen on Grazia with Miranda Kerr) and ZI IICI IEN (Forbes 30 Under 30), along with hidden gems Molifusu, Rimless and Kitayama Studio...
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-Michael McCarthy
