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A Hubei portrait studio's booking page restricted four packages to customers under 60 kilograms, saying it did not want to spend its life 'liquefying' bodies in retouching software. Staff now call it a misunderstanding, but the row has put China's retouching-first beauty economy on trial.
Elravie Re2O, a Korean injectable made from the donated skin of dead people, has become a must-have for Chinese medical tourists at around 3,000 yuan an injection. Chinese doctors say the product's clinical evidence — one 20-week study run by its own developers — cannot yet support the claims.
Lululemon's shares fell more than 18 percent after hours, breaking below $100, as Chinese social media debated why: domestic brands now sell near-identical yoga wear for a fifth of the price. The 'dupes' phenomenon says as much about China's value-over-logo consumer mood as about one American brand.
One of Taobao's best-known women's-wear shops — 20 million followers, a 4.5 rating, 40,000 sales a month — shut down without warning, and its fans are asking how a store that big could be so fragile.
Aokang, China's 'king of leather shoes,' has lost more than 900 million yuan in four years as business casual displaces the formal dress shoe — a shift Chinese commentators read as men dressing 'for themselves, not to be seen.'
In recent weeks a quiet chorus has risen on China’s leading social‑media platform, Weibo, rallying behind actress Li Landi (李兰迪) and proclaiming that her beauty has long been undervalued by the domestic entertainment industry. The hashtag #李兰迪一直被内娱低估的美貌#—translated loosely as “Li Landi’s beauty is consistently overlooked in Chinese entertainment”—has trended repeatedly, drawing thousands of comments that range from earnest admiration to pointed critique of the industry’s narrow aesthetic standards.
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