Five years ago, New York Fashion Week catwalks were devoid of Chinese models. Now, some of the biggest names in the business are Chinese.
As a creative director and consultant to the media-relations company KCD, Nian Fish has directed hundreds of fashion shows for the world's biggest design names. On a typical morning in the weeks surrounding New York Fashion Week, she is up at 6 am for an 18-hour day that will include consultations on set design, model casting, music and styling for designers including Calvin Klein and Tory Burch.
China's growing luxury market and increased exposure to international fashion brands over the last decade have led to steep jumps in enrollment of Chinese students in US fashion schools, with many of those graduates expected to eventually return to China to grow an industry that still depends heavily on Western talent.
No matter how many accolades or how much media attention Wu Mengdi receives, the up-and-coming handbag designer says she's really not all that artistically inclined.
February may not be a peak travel time for Americans, but it is a lucrative period for the US car-rental industry nevertheless, as agencies gear up for Chinese holiday travelers.
Just mentioning China at last month's New York Times travel show sparked a flurry of activity in which names and phone numbers were traded like baseball cards.
Yu Yang, from the central China city of Wuhan, was laden with shopping bags and beaming, surprised at the ease of his retail excursion in New York State.
Zhang Xu can tell that the Boston area's higher-education institutions are a tourist magnet - just by glancing at the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
US merchants are ready with special products, snake-themed displays and Mandarin-speaking staff to greet the shopping sprees of Chinese travelers celebrating the Chinese New Year.
US stores luxuriate in Chinese cashAmerican tourism industry looks to new breed of tourist
The show, Style in Silk: Tradition and Innovation in Chinese Fashion, was part of a celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year.
Some 300 guests, government officials and community leaders gathered at a reception hosted by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco, on Feb 6 night to celebrate the Year of the Snake which starts on Feb 11.
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