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Jing Zhang
Jing is a contributor to the Post. She previously served seven years as the newspaper's Fashion Editor, handling all editorial fashion-related content. She covers trends, movements and the industry scene for culture, fashion, retail business, arts, travel, technology and start ups in China and Asia. For the Post, she has interviewed the likes of Malcolm Gladwell, Karl Lagerfeld, Zaha Hadid, Jackie Chan, Dolce & Gabbana, David and Victoria Beckham, Michael Burke and Christian Louboutin.
Science meets fashion in Pangaia, a sustainable brand everyone is going mad for. Here’s how the fashion label won over celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Pharrell Williams, and the Kardashians.
The last Chinese opera diva in Cuba, mixed-race children estranged from their forebears’ Chinese cultural roots – photographer Lau Pok-chi turned his camera lens on what is left of a once thriving Chinese community in the Caribbean.
Melburnians, as the locals are called, tell us the best places to shop, eat, and relax, from Flinders Lane to Chapel Street and from the centre to the suburbs.
Miss Universe Australia’s first Indian-born winner Priya Serrao says her victory proves winners don’t have to be pageant veterans, social media influencers or models and hopes she can inspire other young women and girls.
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Sydney is known for its laid-back classic style but has diversified in recent years, partly fuelled by the Asian market and Asian designers. We talk to some of the city’s fashion insiders on their favourite places to shop and people watch.
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German photographer Martin Schoeller, known for his signature close-ups of the world’s most influential figures, is holding his first China solo show in Shanghai. We talk to him about his style and what it says about him.
People flock to Japan’s north for some of the best snow in the world, but it is also known for its woodlands, lakes and beautiful coastline. A growing number of foreigners are buying homes on the Japanese island region.
Ho Chi Minh City’s bar and restaurant scene is booming, and one of the best ways to see the city is from its rooftop bars, with many overlooking gleaming new buildings jutting between colonial-style architecture.
Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival featured models of different ages, ethnicities and sizes – proof, perhaps, that younger style cities might be quicker to adapt than more established fashion capitals
Pulitzer Prize-winning Liu Heung Shing looks back on the big moments he documented, from the end of Soviet communism to the Tiananmen Square protests, and his snapshots of daily life as China moved from Mao to modernity.
The former Asia-Pacific head of Ford Models Grace Han, 72, has spent decades in the industry. Lu Yan, Du Juan and Sui He are among the Chinese supermodels she has mentored.
Natasha Lau has 1.7 million followers on Weibo and divides her time between her career as an online influencer in Shanghai and study in New York; mum Lisa Xia recalls hard times and how she fell in love with European couture.
Annabel Yao, chosen to perform the opening waltz at Le Bal des Débutantes, was one of 19 young women to make their society debut this year. ‘I still consider myself a normal girl,’ says the Harvard computer science student.
The Shanghai Biennale, West Bund Art and Design fair and ART021 all showed impressive scale and variety of work, but the city still has a ways to go to be considered a true global art hub.
The West’s fascination with what royalty and leaders’ wives wear is well known, but how about Asia? Peng Liyuan of China has a strong influence on Chinese fashion choices, but the effect is less noticeable elsewhere.
China’s first dedicated photographic art fair brings works from 50 galleries. Women artists feature heavily and there is a re-imagining of a 1999 show that was closed down by authorities.
Vann Kwok’s experimental creations express her creativity in a way that is more akin to the boundary pushing, ‘subversive’ styles of designers from China.
She arrived in New York a scrappy young immigrant from Hangzhou, and within seven years was showing at Fashion Week; after hitting the heights she’s scaled back her output, giving her freedom to pursue other interests.
Presidential outfits are less about brands than style and symbolism, which are used to convey power and authority as well as stability, patriotism and safety. Some are better at pulling it off than others.
The past year has seen a flurry of hotel openings designed to appeal to well-travelled trendsetters looking for something different. Here are five of the best.
Ahead of shooting his next blockbuster with John Cena, Hong Kong action star Chan says his role on screen has a deeper purpose and he wants to work at bringing Chinese culture to the rest of the world through film.
The American model and fashion icon was in Hangzhou to open Chrome Hearts’ second store in China with the brand’s co-founders Richard Stark and his wife Laurie Lynn, and daughter Jesse Jo – Hadid’s childhood friend.
Even influencer Leaf Greener is loving the Chengdu pair’s quirky looks. Shushu/Tong’s latest collection has been partially inspired by Peggy Olson from Mad Men and Wes Anderson’s Margot Tenenbaum
As his eponymous label debuts at Sydney Fashion Week, the China-born, Melbourne-based Chris Ran Lin talks about his love for the city he now calls home
Lin prefers striking outfits mixing Eastern and Western influences from her years living in London, Beijing and Shanghai, some of them self-designed and made by her Shanghai tailor, and often paired with vintage accessories
Chinese and global brands are turning to live-streaming internet platforms to expand their reach and generate higher sales in China. Consumers can comment and shop as they watch the broadcasts
The Beijing-based creative insists he’d still be in fashion even if mankind dispensed with clothes
China’s fast growing importance in the fashion industry can be seen at Shanghai Fashion Week, which attracts some of the biggest names in the business. Here are the highlights from inside and outside the shows
French photographer Laurent Segretier shares 10 of his favourite shots from Shanghai Fashion Week
The innocent figures of Julien Malland, also known as Seth, are a world away from typical graffiti
