Charlotte, and the culture at large, is in a “renaissance” of vintage fashion and a search for quality materials of years past, at least according to local stylist and entrepreneur Jaleak Gerlitzki. Gerlitzki is part of a blossoming fashion scene in the city: vintage reselling and personal styling. Saturdays are often populated by pop-up markets,…
Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion is home to some of the city’s most iconic businesses and shops. Every year on the first Saturday in July, the “Light Up Livernois” fashion, art and design festival takes over Livernois between Six and Eight Mile roads to highlight all the business and entertainment district has to offer. Alysyn Curd,…
Melanie Dunea has another genre-bending project. The award-winning photographer and Mood Studios founder, whose career has spanned portraiture, fashion and food photography is melding all of her previous subject matters into one. Called “Amuse-Bouche,” the volume features models dressed in various delicacies fabricated and styled as clothing. The book, limited to 500 copies — 250…
This year’s show featured the fashion collections of 35 of UC’s fashion design students from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP). There were over 150 fashion creations on the runway, many which told a personal story with a nod to a designer’s heritage, hometown, personal trauma or a background in activities or…
Reading Time: 5 minutes STUDENTS STITCH, THRIFT, AND STYLE THEIR WAY TO SELF-EXPRESSION At the University of Ottawa, style isn’t just what students wear—it’s what they create. From crocheted dusters and reworked trench coats to inspiration pulled from tree bark or aunties in vintage photos, students are redefining what it means to get dressed. Here’s…
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — As pet parents in China usher in the Year of the Snake and host Lunar New Year’s Eve dinners with their loved ones, some are also making sure that their fur babies, or “mao hai zi,” are not left out. Over the past month, a growing number of consumers have been ordering…
China’s annual mass migration ahead of the Lunar New Year will peak with billions of trips anticipated during this year’s holiday, which begins Tuesday. An estimated 9 billion trips are expected. This year’s holiday lasts from Jan. 28 through Feb. 4 and marks the arrival of the Year of the Snake. Authorities in China extended…
Hu Ge, a Chinese actor who is well-known in China for dramas including Flowers, was recently confirmed to serve as the deputy director of the Central Propaganda Committee of the China Democratic League. He was invited to Taiwan in June 2024 to participate in a film exchange activity. Click here for the full story in…
BEIJING — The former coach of the Chinese men’s national football team has received a 20-year-prison sentence for bribery, Chinese state media reported Friday. Liu Tie, who once played in the English Premier League as a midfielder for Everton, was found guilty of “leveraging his positions” as head coach of the national football and national…
In Shanghai, police, not trick-or-treaters and partygoers, are taking to the streets this week as the city approaches Halloween. The strengthened police force accompanies official notices prohibiting citizens from “role-playing” on Halloween, signaling the government’s paranoia over the social instability the holiday’s festivities could bring. Videos online show police cars lining the streets of Shanghai,…