The hot, hip and happening razzmatazz of Shanghai Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2024 was a wrap on October 16. Starting from October 8, the couture concoctions of more than 100 (mostly Chinese) creative minds took to the catwalks from the city’s Xintiandi shopping district to its famous Bund waterfront area, satisfying the ravenous appetites of fashion aficionados, editors and buyers alike in a post-pandemic, boisterous blaze of light and lacy luminosity.
From the catwalk to just, well, a “walk,” a 2.5-hour flight north, Beijingers at the same time enjoyed a front-row seat to another flashy form of art—arboreal art, that is. Residents were soaking up the (short-lived) splendor that is fall in the capital, a place surrounded by thousands of acres of fall
