WEEKEND JOURNAL; Fashion: Model's Chinese Looks Were an Instant Hit Everywhere but China; Du Juan's Star Rises at Home After She Wins the West; A Face of Things to Come

• Published in: The Wall Street journal Asia
• Main Author: Vanessa O'Connell and Cui Rong
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hong Kong Dow Jones & Company Inc 29.09.2006
• Subjects: Consumers; Fashion designers; Fashion models

Ms. [Du] is the face of a paradox in the fashion industry as it expands its global reach. In China, where the luxury-goods market has recently exploded, many consumers have come to associate Western fashion brands with the European and American models -- Caucasian mainly -- who appear in their ads a...