L'Oreal-owned cosmetics giant shifts focus to Alibaba e-commerce platform to try and broaden its consumer base and reach young, tech-savvy shoppers
It is 9 am on Wednesday on a cold and chilly winter morning in December in Beijing. Ren Shirong, 82, arrives at the China Braille Library near the Second Ring Road from his home near the city's Fourth Ring Road.
What do a Chinese woman's wear designer, a German shoe label and a Chinese Buddhist sculptor have in common? An art installation in Shanghai.
PARIS - The last collection of fashion legend Azzedine Alaia will be shown in Paris next year, his couture house said Monday.
The 58-year-old designer Michael Kors compares his job to that of a mind reader. And he says that Chinese young consumers will soon want recycling while at the same time not sacrificing the fine touch of luxury.
There has been a lot of talk recently about the prospects of well-known Chinese restaurants trying their luck overseas and of the challenges they face, but the traffic is not all one way.
In the Japanese restaurant scene in Beijing, ramen shops have become highly familiar. Now another kind of Japanese noodle shop, aburasoba, literally meaning oil noodles, has made its way to the capital. In fact they are far less oily and greasy than the classic fatty tonkatsu ramen.
Aesthete, poet, alchemist, wizard... there's no shortage of words to describe the 75-year-old master perfumer Serge Lutens.
The 28-year-old founder of fashion label Jourden was raised in Hong Kong, trained at Paris fashion design institute Studio Bercot, then came back to start her own brand.
Of the 700-odd officially published photo portraits of late Chairman Mao Zedong before he died in 1976, more than 400 were taken by Hou Bo, who passed away recently
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