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Image courtesy of Pawnstar Shanghai, 2019. The app can boast 50+ million monthly active users as of September 2018. Nonetheless, people are getting increasingly informed on the counterfeit topic and the Xianyu popularity is growing steadily.

Caution is advised, though, because luxury or high-end claiming it’s guaranteed to be real, isn’t always so.” One of the most popular Taobao (淘宝 in Chinese the online shopping Walhalla) platforms for second-hand, Xianyu, sells just about every category of secondhand goods eBay-style. “Several secondhand e-commerce platforms have emerged in recent years as well, but maintaining quality control is still a battle. Online and physical stores selling secondhand (luxury) goods are now slowly beginning to grow both in quantity and popularity, boasting some awesome potential as the Chinese luxury clientele matures and more consumers opt to “trade up”.Įxpert in the field Fang Fang, owner of secondhand Beijing boutiques Trash ‘n Diamond and Psycho Recycle, back in 2016 told Jing Daily’s Jessica Rapp the following on the topic: The buyers, on the other hand, are aspiring luxury consumers who make US $1500 a month and still dream of nonchalantly clutching onto that pale pink Dior Diorissimo bag in the crook of their arm. Vintage retailers often get the clothing from their own fashion circles whose in-crowd has grown tired of their wardrobes. The process behind it is plain-‘n-real-dealing.

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(You can get your full academic fix on the topic in Vintage Luxury Fashion, 2018*.) To China’s first tier cities, a fashion society in which vintage becoming somewhat smoking hot… The secondhand times are changing, one vintage piece and platform at a time. provoking gasps of “goodness gracious” disbelief everywhere. From China’s first tier cities, a consumer society most reluctant to enter the “used clothes” game with “used clothes” the nation’s fashion equivalent of New York City’s secondhand smoke, i.e. Perhaps surprisingly so, the secondhand luxury industry in China over the past five years has experienced an upward movement. Two big driving forces here are the fact that a) more Chinese consumers nowadays buy their products abroad rather than in China, and b) the presence of “hard-to-tell-apart” counterfeits on the Chinese market scares away potential customers. This is not to say that brands have become “bad” in the client look-book, but a decline in luxury sales has occurred. With yard sales somewhat beyond the ken of most Chinese consumers and the lingering China gusto for high-end| newly made consumer culture, how does “secondhand” play (let alone “fit”) into this ever-aspiring market? Secondhand Smoke Or Smoking Hot?Ĭurrent economic conditions have triggered a slight turnaround in China’s craving for the luxury consumer culture. Looking at the bigger picture, the q uestion then becomes… Secondhand, streetstyle and sustainability rolled into one big Bogart-worthy hotter than a deuce fashion funk - Temper digs. Moreover, the store has taken up collaborations with local designers on up-cycling projects, culminating in a fervid range of 100 per cent unique fashion items - available at the shop, obviously.

Designer stilettos, frocks and accessorizing frolickings mark their presence and unlike many secondhand stores that merely specialize in women’s fashion, Pawnstar also offers the boys a chance to score some fly menswear and make some high fashion vintage noise. The Pawnstar shop at No.1 Xiangyang North Road (Lane 34) in Shanghai breathes a cool air of prime and fine vintage.