Shanghai – London, an Urban Tale of Fashion and Creativity

Shanghai Fashion Week presents

Shanghai – London, an Urban Tale of Fashion and Creativity

an interactive business forum

With the announcement by China’s Premier Li Keqiang that 2015 would be the year of UK-China Cultural Exchange, reinforced by Prince William’s visit to China in May and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the UK taking place this October, the Shanghai Fashion Week Organising Committee, in partnership with an Anglo-Chinese business consultancy, ACTIVE Anglo Chinese Communications, is hosting a forum entitled ‘Shanghai – London, an Urban Tale of Fashion and Creativity’.  This will take place on 16 September 2015 at The Hospital Club, Covent Garden, London at 3pm, designed to encourage and facilitate ongoing business exchanges between China and the UK.

China was recently ranked as Britain’s sixth largest export market[1] and is set to become the world’s greatest luxury goods supplier by 2020.[2] The forum, moderated by Gemma A. Williams, author of ‘Fashion China’, will attract an audience of professionals from the fashion and creative industries, buyers, media and social commentators to introduce, promote and discuss the creative and fashion industries within this prominent metropolis. The seminar panel will be comprised of successful senior business executives and entrepreneurs from leading Chinese companies including Ms. Wang, Zhen, founder of “1436”, Ordos Group Ltd.; Mr. Justine Peng, CEO of “Dong Liang” Boutique and Ms. Liu, Mengjie, general manager of Shanghai Xin Tian Di. 

They will discuss their business experience, market research and present case studies to demonstrate and showcase the current fashion scene in Shanghai. The forum will introduce Chinese brands, business models and their environments to the British audience, and provide an insight into the city’s creative and retail industries from both a local and international perspective.

Yintong Betser, managing director of ACTIVE Anglo Chinese Communications and event organiser, says: “We are delighted to welcome to London key representatives from Shanghai’s creative and fashion industries to promote the city, its investment potential and to comment on how its vibrant environment can generate and advance global business links. The UK capital is fast positioning itself as a creative attraction for China’s import and export trades and the link between Shanghai and London plays an important role in this.” 

The forum will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A session and a networking opportunity for establishing creative and trade links between the two cities. For more information and to book your place on the seminar, visit http://www.activeukchina.com/publications/shanghai-london/