John Charles is one of the creatives at Thompson Advertising, Inc here in Beijing.  This look is really quite punk in a way.  I always find it interesting when people can wear a single color and still make it interesting.  The Thompson website says that they are  “business people, helping business people take care of [...]

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.

BTV8 was doing a documentary on Stylites at the time, so there was no time to ask for names, hobbies and favorite colors. A Shanghai girl, she works for Converse, a brand that can do no wrong in the eyes of hipsters globally and particularly in China. Camo prints are not favorites but [...]

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 [...]

People who like to pose are lovely.  They are like interviewees who enjoy telling their own story.  The dress may not be a perfect fit or material, but the slouchiness and that of the hat give this young student a perfect vibe for summer.  As you’ve probably noticed, the truth is that I haven’t been [...]

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 [...]

This perfect pair would fit in on any trendy street in Asia.   They capture the current fascination with hats on boys.  This kind of hat actually looks better on Asia guys, so I think this style will remain.  These two photographers have a certain louche aura, but the one on the right is a practicing [...]

Wielding this interesting bag purchased here in Beijing, Halla is the shopping and travel editor for The Beijinger.  The July issue of “The Beijinger” just came out and it includes the full results of the 2008 Reader Bar and Club Awards.  The Beijinger is That’s Beijing’s new name.  In this Beijinger, as always, you can find the latest [...]