This design student was outside of the Simon Gao show.  I am trying to remember the name of that pattern that is on his shirt.  I suppose it wouldn’t be categorized as some kind of Arabesque.

This is the Beijing I love: welcoming, diverse, cutely bohemian, vibrant, international in its own quirky way, and, of course, smoking. Sure, you might say they are poseurs, but then, I am looking for poseurs. Maybe they are a bit pretentious – but people have been leveling the same accusation at me since I was fifteen – but I would say that they just like to keep their world a little magical. I am drinking ginger ale out of a champagne flute at the moment. Even those who constantly lose themselves in escapist fantasies need to stay sober once in a while.

These two young ladies aren’t haughty or cold, but really quite welcoming in a way. Are they authentic or are they just mimicking the way that hipstresses like them dress in other parts of the world?

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On a foggy day, at Beixinqiao intersection, I found a rare example of real Beijing street style.

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This young student has it all going on. This is the kind of boho Beijinger we’ve all come to love.

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Here is an interesting mix of rugged and rugged, cozy, and chic.

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Youdi was wandering around the I.T. store in Sanlitun Village North. She is a native Beijinger studying jewelry design in Birmingham and – like most of the Stylites popping up on this site lately – came back to the city during the holidays.

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Beijing student Zaylin attended Electric Shadows Film Club’s screening of the American classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman last night.  The club had been organizing monthly free classic movie streamings on the Bookworm’s rooftop terrace in Sanlitun throughout the summer and will hopefully find an indoor venue during fall and winter.

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Roxanne is also at Central St Martins. I particularly like her skirt made from Miao minority embroidery and batik cloth. She found it at Beijing Muxiyuan fabric market.

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Momo studies fashion and textile design at Central St Martins and is back in Beijing for the summer.  Some of her collections are here.

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Sherry is currently studying in the USA and came back to visit for the summer.

Like more and more people appearing on Stylites, she is studying in London and home on vacation.  It’s increasingly common for Beijing’s hipsters to shop in Shoreditch.

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Lin Xiaotian and Wang Jing are students at China’s Renmin University where spring finally arrived this week. Like most students, they are enjoying the sun on a walk across campus with their friend An Jia.

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蔺小天， 王璟 和安佳 逛逛着享受今天的太阳。 这三个女性都穿衣服的很时尚，真 引人注目的。

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Stick to this type of gun!  This young man was visiting the White Dagoba with his parents.

我希望他一直只会用这样的枪。这个小伙子跟父母了白塔寺。

A college student walking through the hutongs.

一个大学生在胡同里走。

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After something of a respite from the cold, snow and freezing air returned to Beijing over the last few days.  The puffy coats were out in force again.  Here was one of the more colorful examples.

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这几天比较冷所以羽绒服又出来了。
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Spark is a 20 year-old student at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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英文名字叫Spark，是个20岁的学生在北航大学。
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Zhao Yuanxi is a 20 year-old student whose Japanese name is A-Tsuko.

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赵渊希是个20岁的学生。她的日文名字是A-Tsubo。

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Kimi, a young fashion design student, was taking a stroll around 798 on a day with lovely blue skies.

With this post, I am happy to announce that some photos can now be clicked on to reach a larger image. If I have time I will go back and revise the earlier images, but henceforth more images will be expandable.

This young lady was interning at a magazine that is part of the Trends Group, China’s largest magazine publisher.  She hopes to become an editor.

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Astana, Kazakhstan, now has the world’s biggest tent, a city-within-a-city called Khan Shatyr.  To celebrate the completion of this monumental edifice and the new global prominence of Kazakhstan’s frigid, futuristic capital, Stylites’ Liang Cheng interviewed Siko, a fashion student from Astana. In Beijing for six years, he is currently finishing his first year at Raffles Design Institute, majoring in fashion design.

Siko 来自哈萨克斯坦, 在北京已经6年，能讲一口流利的普通话。Siko在莱佛士设计学院学时装设计, 刚上完第一年的课程。

LC: What attracts you most about Beijing? And why did you choose to come here?

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