American Apparel Comes to China

Controversial U.S. brand to open 4 stores in China - starting in Beijing!

It’s almost like a dare, isn’t it? American Apparel, after being delayed for months and missing Olympics face-time, is getting into China:

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Kate Moss Brings TopShop to China

Will the supermodel have the power to bring UK fashion stores here at last?

While its still speculation, it seems model Kate Moss and Sir Philip Green (the 7th richest man in the UK, and owner of BHS, Arcadia and TopShop) are scouting locations in China and in Hong Kong to finally bring TopShop - one of the biggest, absent brands of the UK - to Greater China…at long last:

Green is reportedly on the verge of signing a deal to rent space in the Shanghai Superbrand Mall and is scouting for further locations in Beijing and Hong Kong, in a bid to cash in on the sustained Chinese economic boom and Moss’ sky-high profile among the country’s youth.

The move will be spearheaded by the supermodel’s collections and, with the volume of potential sales in China significantly higher than those in the markets in which Topshop currently trades, Moss could bank a potential £25 million from the deal.

But is this more than too little too late, alot of TopShop’s competitors are already here and doing very well. More on this as it develops.

Sharon Stone: China Public Enemy #1

Wrong comment at the wrong time, Catherine Tramell!

In typical celebrity fashion, one ill-timed remark and the “shitstorm” is brought by the media. If you haven’t heard of this by now you will today. Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone made a comment about the Sichaun earthquake being ‘karma’ for China treating Tibet so poorly has created a tsunami of bad press for the femme fatale all across the world.

The video interview is below:

And links are here at Defamer, Fox News, Google News and QQ News in Chinese.

UPDATE MAY 29:
Looks like Stone has apologized after Dior kicked her out of their campaign:

French fashion house Christian Dior said Thursday it has dropped Sharon Stone from its Chinese ads and released a statement from the actress apologizing for saying China’s earthquake may have been bad karma for its treatment of Tibet.

The 50-year-old actress said she was “deeply sorry” for causing anguish and anger among Chinese people wwhen you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”ith her remarks in an interview last week. Stone models for Christian Dior SA, and the company’s Shanghai office issued the statement.

More at Yahoo News.