China Fashion Now: Inside China’s Fashion Industry

Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas will take a broad look at China’s fashion industry. Learn about the past, present and future of China’s key fashion city Shanghai and consider China’s potential role in a sustainable future for fashion.

The site of China’s first department stores and the heart of China’s tailoring industry, Shanghai was associated both with innovations in fashion production and fashion retail, particularly in the “Golden Age” of the 1920s and 1930s. But is Shanghai still the centre of China’s fashion scene, and which other cities are emerging to compete for its crown as China’s pre-eminent fashion city?

The scale of China’s fashion footprint in textile and fashion production and consumption has enormous implications for the future of fashion. The talk will also discuss how the industry and consumers are responding to the challenges and opportunities of sustainable fashion.

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