Shanghai Fashion Week with best looks from Changning
2024/09/30
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Shanghai Fashion Week with best looks from Changning
Multiple places in Changning have been listed as landmarks for cooperation during the 2025 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week, with many Changning businesses and brands participating.
The 2025 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week will kick off on October 9. The theme of this season’s fashion week is “Recognizing the New Ecology.”
This season’s Fashion Week will run through October 19, aiming to showcase the new driving force of Chinese design, work together with influential international heavyweight brands, and jointly promote cooperation and exchange in the global fashion industry.
This year, in addition to the World Trade Center and Haisu Cultural Plaza, the new commercial complex “Yi Fung Center” under Nan Fung Group has also been listed as a cooperation landmark for the 2025 Spring/Summer Shanghai Fashion Week.
Changning landmarks will promote the atmosphere of the fashion week and help lead the new trend of “debut economy.”
Ingka Centres unveils Livat Shanghai
Ingka Centres, part of IKEA’s parent company Ingka Group, unveiled its biggest investment in a single property project in Changning on September 26. The company is investing 8 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) in the project.
The Livat Shanghai covers 430,000-square-meters of construction area and hosts over 300 stores covering fashion & style, leisure & restaurants, education & sports.
The company says the new location has good transportation links and is in a prime area for office buildings and residential neighborhoods.
It's the 10th Livat retail project in the country, and includes five office buildings, one shopping mall, and outdoor leisure space.
“This shows we're by no means leaning back in China, but rather taking a step forward and continue to develop our concepts to offer relevant retail experience for the community,” said Cindy Andersen, global president of Ingka Centres.
All-in-one license grants businesses in foreign-owned shopping center
The first comprehensive license for wholly foreign-owned shopping center formats in China was issued in Changning on September 26.
At the unveiling ceremony of Livat Shanghai, Lu Hao, deputy director of Changning District, issued a comprehensive shopping center license to Cindy Andersen, global president of Ingka Centres.
Ingka Centres, part of IKEA’s parent company Ingka Group, is investing 8 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) in the Livat Shanghai, which covers 430,000-square-meters of construction area and hosts over 300 stores covering fashion & style, leisure & restaurants, education & sports.
This license is the first foreign-owned shopping center comprehensive license in China, which integrates public place hygiene permits, public gathering place use permits, pre business fire safety inspections, and other licensing matters.
At the same time, representatives of the four business formats of cinemas, amusement and entertainment venues, song and dance entertainment venues, and catering that settled in Livat Shanghai also obtained comprehensive industry licenses on site.
Overseas Chinese jointly promote local development
Leaders of overseas Chinese organizations, overseas Chinese business representatives, professionals, startup founders from 30 countries and regions across six continents, as well as business people from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan visited Changning-based Ctrip Group and iFlytek when they attended a promotion in Shanghai.
The global promotion event “Gathering in Shanghai to Create a Better Future” with the theme of “Creating a Market oriented, Rule of Law based, and Internationalized First-class Business Environment” was held in Shanghai.
Parallel sessions were set up online in the United States, Canada, the Philippines, and Indonesia at the same time.
The attending overseas guests also participated in the East Hongqiao Business Environment Promotion and Exchange Conference to promote high-quality development in deepening high-level opening-up.
Light and shadow through the week
A parallel session of the Shining Shanghai Light Festival was held in Changning on September 28 and will run through October 4.
As the main show of the Changning session of this year’s light festival, the “Light and Shadow Adventure” officially premiered on the exterior wall of the Navy Club in the Colombia Circle.
At the opening ceremony, a map for the Changning edition of the festival was also released, and awards were presented to the winners of the collection of beautiful works of the light festival.
Edited by Shanghai Daily