I am now on a well-known island chain southeast of Florida with my parents and infrequent internet access.  Regular programming will return soon.  My apologies for the paucity of posts.

Some readers have commented that my posts of Beijing street fashion have been less frequent in recent months.  Thanks to my valued collaborator in this blog, Suzy, this hasn’t brought down the number of photos appearing here by too much.

In fact, these days I spend a good portion of my time outside of Beijing and am often outside of China as well.  A recent trip that I found particularly interesting was to Huaxi, in Jiangsu province.  Huaxi was celebrating its 50th anniversary as a village and invited over ten-thousand people for the party.

Here is a night view from my room of the “village”.  This is how I imagined Chinese cities would look when I was little.

Huaxi even bosts its own version of Tiananmen.  They did not reproduce the portrait of Chairman Mao.  I suggested to several locals that the architect of the Huaxi dream, Wu Renbao, ought to be on the village’s Tiananmen.

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Thank you for your patience!

It seems the various problems have been worked out and we can go back to regular programming.  Thank a lot to Suzy and Will Moyer for figuring things out.

Here I am with Wu Yulu, a farmer from outside Beijing who created the Wu Lao series of robots. Since 1986, Wu has single-handedly built over 40 humanoids capable of performing all sorts of tasks from giving massages to lighting cigarettes. The one pictured behind us is smoking.

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If you want Stylites in Chinese, I suggest following my Weibo Microblog.  If you’re not aware, Sina’s Weibo is China’s twitter.  I update there about five times a day on a whole range of topics.

The Sunday style magazine called MS of Danish newspaper Berlingske just carried a feature on Stylites.

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Newsweek Beijing Bureau chief Melinda Liu mentioned Stylites and me in her latest piece called “Chinese Fashion Empire”, which gives a nice overview of the development from Mao Suits to Diane Von Furstenberg.

Thanks to CHART Contemporary for putting me in touch with Melinda.Melinda Liu这偏文章“Chinese Fashion Kingdom”在美国Newsweek 提到我。 她采访我的时候我讲了关于中国时尚界最近的个性化。我的意思是现在中国时尚消费者现在已经不是名牌簇拥者。非常感谢Chart Contemporary的安排。

While at the Luisaviaroma event in Florence I met Mathieu Lebreton, one of the creators of the major French fashion site ykone.com. Here is an interview with me (in French) on that site.

Click “read more” to see the English translation.

我在Luisaviaroma的活动在意大的时候认识了做这个法国网站的人。他们后来就采访过我（法语）。 Read More

I just arrived in Sarasota, Florida, where I will be spending Christmas next to the sea.  Over the next week, I will be posting regarding a few trends observed over 2010 while photographing Beijing street style.

刚到了附罗丽达州。在这里的沙滩旁边会住一段时间。这周我会写点关于我今年在北京关注到的几个潮流。

Yuanyuan likes to keep her thoughts warm.

媛媛喜欢给她的思想“保温”。

After a very nice but rushed Thailand vacation, I’m back to Beijing and regular posts tomorrow.

明天回到北京。

Yesterday, I appeared with designer Candy Lin of Candy and Caviar on CCTV9′s “Crossover” with Eyee Hsu.  There to offer my insights on Candy’s designs and the fashion world, I was exhausted since it was filmed on the morning after the Lacoste party. Perhaps finding that I wasn’t a particularly brilliant commentator, they decided midway to use me as a model.  So watch to the end.

Thanks to my friends over at enovate for doing a feature on my coverage of the Modern Sky Festival.

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.

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After a working vacation in London and Dubai, I am now back in China’s capital.  Hopefully I will have a chance to take some more street style photos in the near future.

Sad to leave London, just for fun and to see if it as fantastic as is purported, I am heading to Dubai tomorrow for the first time. Apparently, there is not much walking on streets there, so local styles are probably only visible in the malls and high-end hotels.  It will be nice to visit the tallest building in the world.  I will be back in Beijing next Monday.

I know that she checks here regularly and will see this. I thank her for that as well as the other support she has provided me throughout my life.

Here is a ranking of the top five cities from which visits to this site originate:
1. Beijing
2. Shanghai
3. Hong Kong
4. New York
5. London

Thanks to Jing Daily for including me in its list of the top five China fashion bloggers.  Amusing that beyond being the only non-Chinese on this list, I am the only male.  This story was picked up by the Business of Fashion and The New York Times Fashion and Style Section.

Well, if you want to learn more about them in China and are a college student or recent graduate interested in an internship, let me know. This a great opportunity to learn about magazines, style and working in Beijing. Find out more below.

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