Nels Frye

Nels Frye 

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Born in Boston, Nels Frye is an entrepreneur, writer and consultant who has lived in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Hanghzou and Bangkok and most recently Springfield, MA. Mr. Frye has consulted on business development and marketing in industries ranging from aviation, to packaging, to home appliances but he has recently focused on fashion and media. He writes on subjects ranging from menswear to design. 

In over a decade based in China, Frye served as Editor-in-Chief of LifeStyle Magazine and Project Director at Kamsky Associates Inc.. He gained international recognition for the street style blog  stylites.net, a valuable record of the fashions and attitudes of Beijingers at in the early 21st Century. As an independent consultant, Frye created exciting collaborations and content for Lacoste, American Rag Cie, The HUB, Benetton and was LifeStyle Magazine at the Four Seasons Hotel Beijing for over three years. Frye has also been a speaker at corporate events for P&G, H&M, Corneliani and others. 

Together with his wife, Jia Wenting, Frye founded Pawnstar the first secondhand fashion retailer in Shanghai, China, which sells a combination of locally sourced designer goods and vintage items imported from the US.

Selected Writings 

Cobo Social

Fashion & Art Combating Climate Change

Ritz Carlton Magazine –

The Chinese Cosmopolis

Introspective

The Future of Design Is in Shanghai

Foreign Policy – Men in Black

New York Post –

China bans our tech companies — America must return the ‘favor’

Greedy Wall Street giants won’t fare well in Xi Jinping’s China

Coronavirus: Corporate America should stop being China’s ‘useful idiots’

Why China is rooting for Joe Biden to win 2020 presidential race