Best Online China Street Style by Massive Empire
It is quite difficult to find good China Street Style online. Here’s the fruits of countless hours scouring the nets. Enjoy.
Probably the best around. Beijing focus, high end fashions & parties
http://www.streetkidschina.com/
Not a street style blog per say, more about Beijing Street Culture in general but you can check out great local fashion in the gallery.
http://sns.713cn.com/News.aspx/T-110
From my favourite city – Qingdao. 713cn.com is a website focused on fashion and nightlife in Qingdao. It is in Chinese but with the help of Google translate I found a gallery of some street style in one of the large shopping centres.
http://current.com/groups/culture/88793040_street-style-beijing.htm
I included this video even as a bit dated as it has wonderful candid comments from the kids wearing the clothes. Also current.com has a huge array of stories from around the world. Some of the content is user generated and Current assists producers to publish their content.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ4lfjD1rfI
H&M Fashion Video – Shanghai Street Style
I included this recent video from H&M’s youtube channel for the cute commentary from young boy fashionista’s.
http://www.trendhunter.com/photo-gallery-long/22336
Trendhunter have compiled a gallery from a few sites.
http://www.feedmefashion.com/items/search/china/page/1
Just when I was about to give up I came across feedmefashion.com. It feeds from street style blogs worldwide but the great thing is you can search by country. A large portion of the shots are from stylelites but there are others and it is sure to grow. A good find!!
Haoshi Design = Good things
Bucks Ring - Animal Series
The bucks ring is what started my massive like for Haoshi Design. Griffin Yang and Cheney Tseng design jewellery that is quirky yet simple in the ‘why hasn’t this been done before’ way. Established in 2009 and named for the Chinese pronunciation ‘good things’ , Haoshi Design uses technical art to bring ‘joyfulness and satisfaction’.
Griffin Yang and Cheney Tseng from Haoshi Design
They have designed a few series of jewellery now covering themes such as ‘animals’, ‘life’, ‘dress’ and ‘merrygoround’.
Appleman necklace from the 'life' series
Aside from wanting to collect several of these, just looking at them makes the back of my throat get that tangy sweet kick like when you down too much chocolate in one sitting. Sweet but insanely cool.
Check this bad-ass hippo ring!
I love their sense of humour – I need the hippo ring!
Speechless - so cool and cute
You can buy direct from their website www.haoshi.com.tw which is in English and a breeze to navigate. They accept paypal and ship worldwide. They can also be found at www.notjustalabel.com/ and www.gnr8.biz/
Movin’ Over to WordPress
Little Skull Fringe Necklace
With the Massive Empire Shop about to open I took a big breath and moved everything over to wordpress as it offers many more options than typepad.
I am experimenting with all the new widgets and settings in wordpress so please bear with me.
Stay tuned for store opening competitions.
I had to reset the bloglovin’ page so please follow me again if you want updates on the massive empire shop and blog.
Wear it Raw
Sun Signals Necklace at Black Pyramid
I have been noting with interest the swing towards raw look jewellery featuring unfinished crystals, big chains, bones and a DIY aesthetic. Here are some of my picks for rough as guts jewellery that ships worldwide.
Black Pyramid is a shop from two San Francisco chicks who have a good edited selection of jewellery and clothes. You will find pieces here in the range of $50-$150. Crystals, bones, metal and chains feature strongly.
VOCE KEEN Artemis Necklace a Black Pyramid
3 of the Best – Fashion Blogs that is
I wrote a little while back on better fashion blogs that go beyond the usual “ooh ahh” over latest bag, shoe, collection. Here are some more.
Tavi Gevinson has experienced mass saturation and worship as youngest coolest fashionblogger ever beginning at age 11. She’s been on the cover of Pop and has inspired Rodarte amongst her many achievements. I lover because she is funny and dry and stages home shoots with unexpectedly weird combinations of apparel.
Mimi Jung is top of my list for hotness. She loves and sells vintage jewellery and designs her own line of jewellery (nuff said) influenced by her previous incarnation as a graphic artist. Intelligent and thoughtful, her blog posts are supported by gorgeous shots of her ridiculous wardrobe and interior style.
This blog is pure unadulturated fashion porn. Incredible access to “not even on the runway yet” pieces. I sort the blog by SHOES and begin the lust.
The more unwearable the better….
The Rise of Chinese Street Fashion
Eno (Eyes Now Open) is one of the first fashion labels to concentrate soley on the Chinese youth market. Set up by American entrepeneurs in 2006, it faltered at first by attempting to dictate a Western aesthetic. Quickly realising the model wasn’t working, the design process was handed over to young Chinese designers with great sucess.
Like H&M and Zara, Eno is focused on producing smaller batches to bring new fashions to the market quickly and with factories at their doorstep, this is easily done. There are 200 million 15-24 year olds in China, a demographic roughly five times the size of the entire population of Canada.
Collaborations with local artists, musicians and online comps have seen Eno grow from t-shirts to a full range of streetwear fashion. Eno’s FW2010 collection is is far more than cool T-shirts. Eno has opened franchise stores in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Chongqing and was listed on Fast Company’s recent Top Ten Most Innovative Companies in China list.
Young China is increasingly experiementing with look and attitude. Massive Empire is interested to watch China style develop and express a unique aestethic!
Massive Empire Updating Bloglovin’
If you don’t already have Bloglovin’ you need to. Follow all your favourite blogs in the one place and flick through magazine style. I have followed bloglovin for 18 months and have culled the list of blogs I follow to about 50. A swathe of bloggers join everyday and you can be overwhelmed with baby bloggers copycatting each others opinions or swooning unecessarily over Alexander Wang – but hang in there to find some great commentary on the state of style and fashion by bloggers who are truly invested in having their say!
3 of my favourites
Probably the best blog for truly innovative design based in UK. Blog writter Queen Michelle has a penchant for the most amazing sculptured and at times bondage outfits. Not afraid to experiment and always digging up delicious new designers.
Written by a very young Austin based blogger with remarkably sophisticated tastes. Feel sick with jealousy at her wardrobe (her mum had a vintage store for years before) and her access to the top eschalons of the fashion world. Total fantasy but great photography and interesting styling. Her mum’s blog http://www.atlantishome.com/ is also worth checking out.
Written by Lulu Chang in great irreverant style. USA based, she mashes together current and avant trends with attitude. Always something interesting going on in Lulu’s head and wardrobe.
Dark Chocolate Decadence from Lu Shae
I received this beauty in the post last week brand new from Lu Shae. It arrived super fast from OS which was perfect for Friday night plans and Sunday French themed party. Straight out of the box it has a nice weight and the stone does indeed look like a piece of dark chocolate I want to devour. Plenty of other lux pieces at the same online store.
ORIGINAL 80s NORMA KAMALI SNEAKER BOOTS – Claire Inc
Claire has done it again with amazing 80's Norma Kamali Lace up Sneaker Boots. How does she do it? Where does she find this amazing gear? Where does she live?
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