Shopping Brief
(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-02-09 07:47

Shopping BriefHarley-Davidson motors on

Following 20 years of record earnings, revenue and retail motorcycle sales, 2006 has become the 21st consecutive year of growth at Harley-Davidson, bosses at the luxury motorcycle company have announced. Revenue for 2006 reached $5.80 billion, an 8.6 percent increase on 2005. More than 76,000 Harley-Davidson motorcycles were exported, a 21.6 percent increase compared on 2005. According to its chief executive officer Jim Ziemer, the company has enjoyed uninterrupted growth for more than two decades, and China has been a growing market for the company.

Subversive fashionShopping Brief

International fashion brand Anna Sui released its new collection for 2007 spring and summer, which combines 18th century style with a punk attitude, outwardly traditional with an undercurrent of subversion. There are fabric mixes of eyelash lace, faux patent, metallic tweed and slashed mesh. Prints are widely used, such as bandanas, polka dots, and radiating stars. Details include cascading ruffles, zigzag pleating, draped bodices, scarf necklines and Byzantine gemstone beading.

Shopping BriefBoost for the fur trade

Last week Kopenhagen Fur, the biggest fur supplier in the world, opened its first design lab at Tsinghua University to help train professional fur designers in China. Zhang Zhifeng, the CEO of top Chinese brand NE.tiger, attended the opening ceremony. According to him, China has stepped into the luxury era with consumers snapping up an increasing quantity of foreign luxury products, including fur products.

(China Daily 02/07/2007 page17)