Jean Pierre Braganza is a London designer whose fashion creations are sold throughout the world and soon in Beijing. In Beijing to teach local designers to inject sophistication and cool into their brands, he was strolling down Nanluoguxiang, enjoying the street festival and drinks at Salud.
Jean Pierre describes 27 as the best age.  A man finally [...]

A single, very well-designed beast is replacing the cartoony creatures that used to adorn tee shirts. Animals will no doubt appreciate the increase in respect shown through more accurate depictions using better fabrics. No one deserves it more than the panda.

Girls unafraid to look boyish are not new – girls avoided looking anything but boyish until the eighties.  In the sixties and seventies, women wore little to no make-up and avoided form-fitting clothes.  Androgyny was the norm, though not for reasons of fashion.  When looking at women in their fifties and sixties, that past is quite evident.  [...]

This hairdresser failed to fire a visual bazooka at us unlike most of his tacky colleagues. Might not seem like much, but this young Northeasterner is showing us proportions that menswear might increasingly opt for in the future. Many designers and consumers are tired of tight clothes and formalwear could also begin to go more [...]

To make up for those times when there were so many men appearing on the blog, I have been focusing on the girls lately.  Julia or Fan Fan is especially attractive.  Beijing has droves of pretty and even beautiful girls like her, but very few attractive ones.  Being attractive has more to do with spirit and taste [...]

In this adorable pair, only lovely Lu Lu, in the black trousers, spoke.  From Anhui, she hosts a fashion show on TV.  Over-sized tee-shirts tend to be irritating but here the braces and wide leg trousers are a good frame.  With a touch of loucheness, this droopy outfit looks comfy.  The trousers, what initially drew [...]

It’s finally happening.  An appreciation of vintage and second-hand items is slowly creeping into first-tier cities on the Mainland.  Initially, it was leather bags and jackets, but some of the more fashion forward types are also going for dresses (this one, a print of ducks, was purchased in Amsterdam), jeans, and other items that were [...]

They’ve been growing in number.  In Beijing, skating and the styles that are such an important aspect of it were more the province of men, but recently a number of girls are doing the look well.

They lack the over-sized suit coat, but they are buttoning the top button.  It’s not just these two either.  All over Beijing and the world, men are becoming comfortable with this look that was formerly considered too daft or too nerdy.  New England mothers used to clip off the top buttons of shirts to make [...]

Too many guys wearing hats recently!   Hat-wearing rate has spiked massively over the last six months.  Girls are even getting on the action.  Personally, I have lost several rather pricey pieces of headgear over this same period.  I had a particularly nice hat from Sicily, made of velvet, that seems to have been purloined [...]