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Editors on Marc Jacobs’ Orientalist Collection

NY Magazine quoted my post on Marc Jacobs’ latest collection for Louis Vuitton.

Thinking I should get the opinions of the real experts, I turned to three of my friends who are editors at local fashion magazines for their assessment of this collection. They do not want to give their names, though two of them have been pictured on here before.

The Senior Fashion Editor at the China edition of a major biweekly European title thinks women with a “more edgy sense of style will have no mixing some pieces from this collection into their look”.

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By the City Wall

Before the Phillip Lim show at Dongbianmen, this man seems like someone with power, money or both. In China, it is rare to see such people wearing so many colors.

Also, Stylites coverage of the Phillip Lim 3.1 fifth anniversary events was just mentioned in this piece on Jing Daily, which also explains more of the reason for the presence of this designer here in Beijing. Here is another piece from the Jing Daily on the rise of Chinese American designers.

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Velvet Slippers

One doesn’t see them much in Beijing, but Ni Ya, Style Director for Men’s Leon, always sports something dapper. Here he is at the party at Lane Crawford for Phillip Lim.

在北京很少见到这样的平绒鞋，但男人风尚形象总监倪亚总是大阪得很有品味。他参与了连卡佛给纽约设计师Phillip Lim的派对。

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Reindeer Babes at V*tamin

Ready for the upcoming season, Nancy Lou will be working at the second Fragrance Library, which is going to be opening in Sanlitun North Village (there is already one in the south). This is an American novelty perfume brand with scents such as dirt, tootsie roll, and tomato paste.

Here is Wing, also wearing the same reindeer print from Japanese brand Mercibeaucoup. They were at the V*tamin fashion show which showed off the wares of over 40 retailers, including Liu Jo, Eldi, and others with shops in Sanlitun Village. This giant mall development occupying much of Sanlitun is the most fashionable shopping center in Beijing and a key promenade for stylish youth.

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Acceptable in the ’70s

And today…Okay, viewers must be tiring of photos from the Modern Sky festival, but I had such a wealth of them sitting on my computer. On a normal day on the streets of Beijing, I rarely see anyone to photograph.

To me, it seems like a perfect outfit for a music festival. I could imagine this exact look some time in the early 1970s.

我知道我放了太多摩登天空音乐节的图片，但我差点忘了这张跟我想象中的七十年代去音乐节穿法差不多的。

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Getting Bigger in Japan?

Just one percent of my visitors were from Japan over the last year. Obviously, there is a language issue, but I would expect a country so interested in personal style to take more of an interest in how its neighbors dress (and to what extent they hipsters in Shibuya and Harajuku).

Fortunately, Chiemi Isozaki from Japanese online publication Hitspaper just interviewed me (click here for the piece in Japanese) . Select “more” for the Engish.