Category Archives: Stylish

Sunny Sunny Sunday, French Concession

A delayed Spring finally arrived in Shanghai, soaking the city in very welcome rays of sunshine for the first time in quite a while. Chinese people were out in droves, and many of them were taking the opportunity to doing … Continue reading

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Posted in Color, Colors, Green, Just for Fun, Spring/Summer 2012, Stylish, Workers, Xu Hui District, Yellow | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Style Icon: Urban Tibetan, Shanghai

Meet Tibetan author and the first “China Style Icon” on CPHNS, Wang Lili: I first met this nutty but loveable lady outside of last season’s Shanghai Fashion Week closing party, and we ended up sitting together at Zhang Chi‘s fashion … Continue reading

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Posted in Artistic, Bags, Best Dressed Generation, Diversity, DIY, Fashion Shows, Gen Y, Hats, Huai Hai Road, Jeans, Minorities, SS12, Style Icon, Stylish, Zhang Chi | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

The Miao Ethnic Minority, Fuxing Park

I feel like I need a break from posting about Shanghai Fashion Week (yes, there are still a few shows I haven’t posted about yet, I’ll get around to it I promise), but I wanted to post one last update … Continue reading

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Posted in Chen Ping, China Fashion Collective, Chinese Designers, Content, Cultural Heritage, Diversity, Flying Scissors, Franca Sozzani, Fuxing Park, Hair, Jiang Ling, Lina Ma, Mary Ching, Minorities, One by One, Park, Plore, Qiu Hao, Stylish, Vega Wang, Video, Yan Ming, Zhang Da, Zhou Yuan | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

The Chinese Dandy, French Concession

I love dandies, but I don’t like the way Wikipedia describes them. They portray dandies as middle class people who would imitate the upper class because they wanted or longed to be of that status, but that’s not how I … Continue reading

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Posted in Androgynous, Arbitration, Artistic, Best Dressed Generation, Bikes, Chinese People, Conspicuous Consumption, Dandies, Democratization, Domestic Development, Fashion System, Fashion Theory, Gen X, Gen Y, Imitation, Shang Xia, Social Integration, Socks, Stylish, Thesis, Xu Hui District | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Shanghai’s Hutongs, South Bund

A month ago I was looking at “Places” in iPhoto and I realized that in my journey to document Shanghai’s sartorial culture I had neglected an entire section of the city… Granted, it was the South Bund that barely anyone … Continue reading

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Posted in Best Dressed Generation, Chilling, Chinese People, Clash, Cultural Imperialists, Gen X, Just for Fun, South Bund, Stylish | Tagged , , , , , | 3 Comments

Shanghai’s First Fashion’s Night Out, Xin Tian Di

Last year China’s official FNO was in Beijing (as Vogue is based there), but this year China’s most stylish Gen Y-ers flocked to Infinity Plaza in Shanghai for the shopping portion of the event, and later made their way to … Continue reading

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Posted in Artistic, Best Dressed Generation, Chinese Designers, Chinese People, Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics, Content, Cultural Heritage, Domestic Development, Fashion System, Festive, Gen Y, Huai Hai Road, Just for Fun, Kim Kiroic, Model, Patriotic, Stylish, Uma Wang, Xin Tian Di | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Not Mainlanders (but kinda), Hong Kong

My trip to Hong Kong was short but enlightening and inspiring. They certainly have their own sense of style in Hong Kong, but I don’t think it’s as drastically different as most people make it out to be… It seems … Continue reading

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Posted in Back, Bags, Burberry, Chinese Designers, Chinese People, Clash, Conspicuous, Conspicuous Consumption, Context, Counterfeits, Cultural Imperialists, Domestic Development, Homogenizing Forms, Hong Kong, Joseph Li, Kids, Louis Vuitton, Old, Peripheral Monogrammed Goods, Ruxury, Stratification, Stylish | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Practical Patchwork II, Shanghai

Remember the post Practical Patchwork? I loved those pictures so much that I made sure they didn’t keep getting pushed further and further back into the archives by creating the Best of the Best page to be a permanent home … Continue reading

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Posted in Artistic, Chinese Designers, Chinese People, Ma Ke, Patchwork, Style, Stylish, Uma Wang | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Post 105: The CLASH

This final post of my 100th Post Countdown of Shanghai’s Top 5 Sartorial Trends will break down what Shanghai’s style is all about, but first I wanted to point out that I’ve made Maleonn‘s beautiful illustration of 20th Century Chinese … Continue reading

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Posted in Artistic, Bund, Burberry, Children, Chinese People, Clash, Color, Conspicuous Consumption, Context, Cultural Imperialists, Domestic Development, Huai Hai Road, Jing An District, Louis Vuitton, Lu Wan District, Old, People's Square, Style, Stylish, Xin Tian Di, Xu Hui District, Xu Jia Hui | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments

CPHNS’s 100th Post!! : Shanghai’s Top 5 Sartorial Trends

Happy 4th of July everyone!! And apologies for not posting for over a week, but I’ve been moving and my internet has been down; furthermore, I’ve been delaying this post a bit because it’s chinesepeoplehavenostyle’s 100th post, so it had … Continue reading

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Posted in Bags, Bare Belly, Burberry, Chilling, Chinese People, Conspicuous Consumption, Conspicuous Leisure, Context, Cultural Imperialists, Democratization, Domestic Development, Hair, Hats, Historical, Homogenizing Forms, Imitation, Literal, Literal, Louis Vuitton, Modernity, Pajamas, Peripheral Monogrammed Goods, Primitive Consumption, Rain and Snow, Resourceful, Style, Stylish | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments