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Currently focused on inland Chinese expansion, the British ultra-luxury automaker Bentley is set to debut its limited-edition Zagato collaboration in China, setting aside two customized vehicles out of nine globally for the Asian market. Read More

Underlining the importance of Asia to the global luxury market, and the role that emerging economies are playing in buoying major brands, a new PricewaterhouseCoopers report highlights some of the key trends currently taking shape in this fast-growing region. Read More

Jing Daily recently spoke to the Shanghai-based editor of the influential news site Fashion Trend Digest, Ye Qizheng (叶琪峥) about the current status of China's fashion industry, luxury consumption, and the internationalization of "designed-in-China" fashion labels. Read More

Founded in 1959 to house workers from the Daqing oilfield and as a model industrial center, the city of Daqing in northeast China's Heilongjiang province remains focused primarily on one thing and one thing only: oil. Read More

Perhaps no western designer made more direct overtures to the Chinese market last year than Diane von Furstenberg, whose DVF brand recently debuted in Beijing and Shanghai. Read More

As major luxury brands continue their march into China's second- and third-tier cities in an attempt to tap increasing spending power, many companies are finding their progress in these markets stymied by a management "talent shortage." Read More

This week, Bain & Co. released its newest China Luxury Market Study. As the study is being widely covered in the media, we'll spare the "top 10" lists and try to focus on some of the less predictable results that appeared in this new study. Read More

Perhaps nowhere is the issue of brand integrity more important and hard-won in the China luxury market than in men's fashion generally and suiting specifically. Read More

Following the lead of luxury brands like Louis Vuitton and others, luxury automakers too are looking to inland China for long-term growth. Read More

Though cities like Hohhot, Zhengzhou, Changchun and Wuhan don't hold the same prestige outside of China as its glittering east coast gems, for many luxury brands they're potential engines of sustainable growth. Read More