shanghai fashion week present to new and old designers? t five years has concentrated its efforts on promoting local talent, which i think has been a really smart move for them. prior to that, there were a lot of international brands showing at shanghai fashion week, they were the real headliners but more recently, the stars of the show have been these young, up—and—coming, independent chinese designers, many of whom have gone aboard and been educated at some of the best fashion schools in the world and then they come back to china to launch their own brand, they showed shanghai fashion week, they meet local designers and they meet local buyers in the market here. that does not mean that there isn't a place for international brands in the shanghai fashion week, the opening show for this addition was actually 43, obviously a global brand and they are obviously using shanghai fashion week as a platform to help lose their presence in the chinese market, so there is a place for international brands at shanghai fashion week but i would definitel