BLACK HEAD Saints and Sinners: Accessorizing The Urbanite Personality
For many millennials and Gen Zers, jewelry is a symbol of that all-encompassing and passionate individual temper. Time to accessorize in sin. ... Read More
China Fashion
Major Tantrums: The Close-Ups
China Urban
Hot Child in Beijing City: Heat Mark’s Sound Is Indie Rock All Its Own
Beijing indie rock band Heat Mark’s discography is an offbeat mixtape of genres from dream pop whimsical-ism to surf rock shenanigans.... Read More
Beijing’s Loooooooooongish Cat: Set to Bring Forth Our Demise One Gig At a Time
Combining techno beats, glitch’d samples, and live cassette manipulation, this Beijing DJ creates tracks that are tastefully peculiar.... Read More
The Power of Chinese Manufacturing: XUELI Takes Guochao To The Next Level
China's XUELI womenswear brand launches its CU series, a TCM x tech showcase of new guochao trends among the pioneers of China's New Youth.... Read More
Beijing’s Big Thunder – Sonic Confessionals and Shades of Contemplation
Beijing grunge band Big Thunder creates music that expresses human emotion and sentiments about society and its underbelly. Fact. Check!... Read More
The Lesser-Known Trifecta: China’s Under The Radar Fashion Capitals
Three lesser-known hubs further opening up and reforming China's style scenery. One can Xi everything through fashion.... Read More
Take Five: Yǒuyǒumen! From the Web Into the Wild, It’s Slang Time
友友们 (yǒuyǒumen| "friends"), here we go! Following 520, we bring you five Chinese slang terms still making the rounds in 2021. 520? Yes, 520 ... Read More
Born to Be Wild: Heavy Metal, Fashion and Individualism in China
Fashion, an essential element in the heavy metal scene since first shaking western musical norms in the late 1970s and China a decade later.... Read More
The Temper Top Ten China Fashion Labels Playing the Non-Gender Card
Gender fluidity has been a part of the fashions du jour as far back as Ancient China. Time for the Temper Top Ten genderless labels.... Read More
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China Sustainability
Close-Up: The Future Of Fashion Is Looking Brilliant And Bright
Fashion in its very Self is the Mistress of (Optical) Illusion -- just consider the visual effect of a vertical stripe. Nevertheless, the future of this illusion is very much a reality -- a paradoxical yet facetious liaison. ... Read More
Take Five With The Sustainable Revolutionary: Fashionably Wasted No More
Getting fashionably wasted is a go-go no more. Not even in China. Sustainability requires revisions across the supply chain, from raw materials to waste management. How to do a successful stint in rehab?... Read More
The Details Are In The Dress Code — China’s Minority Muses and Musings
The details in the different ethnic dress make China's minorities truly minors playing in the majors -- the major ‘tude stakes, that is.... Read More
Close-Up: About Kathrin Von Rechenberg, Xiang Yun Sha And Mud Dye
Its trade once criticized as a breeding ground for capitalism and its traditional manufacturing methods now nearly lost, xiang yun sha lives!... Read More
INSULAiRE Menswear Encapsulates Chinese Tradition and Transformation
Re-interpret, re-use, and re-design. INSULAiRE draws on China's artisanal heritage, producing garments and stories of cross-cultures and globalized design.... Read More
SOS! The Style Doctor Will See You Now — Hong Kong Fashion Clinic
Save Our Souls! Radical repairs and healing fashion by Hong Kong-based designer duo turned ‘style doctor’s. With a little TC(f)M to tszuj it up. ... Read More
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Meet Shiitake: China’s Cute Tribe Today Mushrooms In Designer Style
The Temper Fact Checker presents the 5W flashcards of our most titillating and savory ones sauntering through the China Fashion scene, one b... Read More
