Inside a Shanghai power dresser’s wardrobe: Lin Lin, CEO of beauty expo business, shares her style secrets
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
Lin Lin is based in Shanghai and is CEO of the China International Beauty Expo – China’s biggest beauty industry trade fair.
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The petite powerhouse has a wardrobe of striking outfits mixing East-West influences from her years living in London, Beijing and Shanghai. She previously founded and ran a design and branding agency before taking the helm at her family’s beauty expo business.
Styles Lin wears for work
Deep fuchsia flare sleeved top and black flares are both self-designed and made at her tailors. Her slimline watch is a vintage Longines from the 1920s, while the clutch bag is by Chanel.
“I actually tailor everything … I design things myself and go to the tailor in Shanghai. The watch I bought from a vintage watch shop in Beijing,” Lin says.
“If I work, I normally wear a scarf with this, and when I go out after in the evenings I just pull the sleeves off the shoulder and put on a pair of statement earrings and then take of my glasses. These earrings are from a store in Paris called Du Temple. I have a lot of similar tortoiseshell glasses.”
