Carrying a bag can gain you instant entry into the world of fashion, according to Yang Ziming, head designer of China's well-known menswear label Cabbeen. Cabbeen's 2011 spring/summer collection features totes, clutches, bowlers, shoppers, drawstrings, weekenders, duffle bags, messenger bags and backpacks - all jauntily carried by muscular models as they strut their stuff down the catwalk.
Gentlemen, forget the black suits. Gan Tian picks out some stylish items to show off during the Spring Festival holidays.
Mandarin collars and frog-buttons, qipao-inspired body-hugging shifts - these appeared in Louis Vuitton's spring/summer 2011 collection. Every fashionista worth her brand-name credentials can recognize the eastward inspiration in Marc Jacobs' latest collection, sexed up, refined and touched with his wand of modernity.
How do the stars tell time? Gan Tian looks at the timepieces on the celebrities' wrists.
Travelers are often divided into tribes in China. There is the beibao zu, backpack tribe, the genban zu, latest-destinations trend lemmings, the ziyouxing zu, the FIT tribe and the Gucci zu, the sybaritic shopping group after the best luxury goods money can buy. In between these elite strata, you also get huge fillers of eager first-time tourists happy to just join a tour and enjoy the novel experience of taking a plane or train for the first time.
A bright light shouldn't hide under a bushel basket, and tucked away in a corner of Wuhan city, red lanterns hanging outside a Japanese restaurant advertises the attractions indoors.
Simple and symbolic, the 'panda look' is a recurring trend, Gan Tian discovers.
It's never too late to give wonderful Christmas gifts to your friends (or yourself). Gan Tian picks out some of the best in town.
When 34-year-old Zhao Xun decided to take up Thai boxing early this month, he needed a pair of gloves, several cotton T-shirts, and comfortable boxer shorts. He went shopping, but he did not turn to sportswear labels like Adidas, Nike or Li Ning, which he thought were "for people between 18 and 30 years old? "I am an old man,?he smiled, and went to the Emporio Armani flagship store which opened last month in Beijing's trendy Sanlitun. He bought a pair of EA7 loose shorts, among other things. The EA7 series of tracksuits, shorts and leather sneakers is a cross-over project by sportswear label Reebok and luxury designer Armani ?which caters for executives in their 30s who look for character and class in fitness wear and tend to avoid what they perceive as younger sports fashion.
How do you look like a kungfu guru on the dojo and off? Gan Tian has some suggestions.
GUANGZHOU - Lu Shiming, one of the leaders of the largest para sports squad China has ever assembled, has been able to fulfill a long-cherished dream at the inaugural Asian Para Games.
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