Shanghai Fashion Week AW20 Revolutionized: Full Tmall Throttle
Elsbeth van Paridon
Shanghai Fashion Week (24-30 March) will take an AW20 Alibaba spin, broadcasting a seven-day online event via Tmall’s virtual shopping rooms. Fashion revolution in motion.
Though originally postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Shanghai Fashion Week is back. With a digital vengeance.
The one-week event (24-30 March) has now joined forces with Alibaba Group’s Tmall platform, aka the world’s largest online shopping Walhalla. So, across the span of one fashion week…
Online viewers will not only see the brands’ collections but, wait for it, can also directly place their most-wanted orders.
This time around, Shanghai Fashion Week is set to become a seven-day online mega-show pitching and plugging the AW20 collections from more than 100 brands across Tmall’s various virtual shopping nooks and corners, live streamed — what else.
Viewers can then familiarize themselves with the latest trends for the upcoming colder, darker months of the year, interact with the hosts and, wait for it, directly place their orders.
This marks fashion’s first-ever mega event conjoining catwalk and commerce into a literal one-stop-shop, creating a comprehensive fashion hub for designers, buyers, and sellers alike.
This online version will undoubtedly cause some massive online (global) fashion traffic. Temper will shortly serve up a handful (or more) of participating brands and must-knows. Tip of the veil…
According to a 2019 report from iiMedia Research, Tmall is the biggest marketplace for the business that is live streaming with more than 20k hosts — from the tiniest indie brands to that big label bravado (celeb style).
Among them, more than 400 virtual shopping rooms roughly achieve monthly sales of 400 million yuan (US$57 million) sales every month.
Over 90 percent of viewers polled bought the promoted product.
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China Fashion, Design and Urban Culture Groupie, Editor-in-Chief at The China Temper
Elsbeth van Paridon holds a degree in Sinology and additionally is just another run-of-the-mill fashion aficionada. After tackling Beijing for some six years and living in Hong Kong for a bit, van Paridon managed to claw her way through a Europe-based academic endeavor called Journalism in 2018 and as of 2020 once again finds herself pounding the pavements of China, from Shanghai to Da Jing.
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