Dior postpones Hong Kong fashion show, one of the city’s mega events

HONG KONG: Dior has postponed a formula clarify dwelling to be held in Hong Kong subsequent month, a metropolis legitimate confirmed Saturday (Feb 24), dealing a blow to the financial hub’s ambitions to elevate its economic system through necessary events.

Hong Kong is relationship top worldwide celebrities and manufacturers in the hope of rebooting its recognition, which had been battered by years of social unrest and strict pandemic curbs.

The Dior fashion clarify – intended to characteristic ingenious director Kim Jones and the males’s autumn series – modified into to be one of several “mega events” touted remaining month by Hong Kong’s tradition, sports activities and tourism chief Kevin Yeung as segment of the metropolis’s force to become an tournament capital.

But Yeung’s location of job confirmed to AFP on Saturday that it had “staunch been notified” by organisers that the style clarify would no longer scurry ahead as scheduled on Mar 23.

“Comely-scale events are postponed infrequently, and we proceed to welcome immense-scale events to happen in Hong Kong,” a spokesperson for Yeung’s location of job added.

Dior stated the clarify had been “postponed indefinitely” with out giving specifics, in accordance with a company assertion quoted by the South China Morning Post.

It additionally reported that a source conversant in the company stated the Dior management made up our minds to lengthen the tournament in the face of China’s economic uncertainties.

In line with SCMP, the tournament by the French luxury trace modified into anticipated to cost about HK$100 million (US$12.8 million) and blueprint on the subject of 1,000 attendees.

Louis Vuitton in November held its males’s pre-tumble 2024 clarify in Hong Kong, led by artistic director Pharrell Williams and drawing well-known person guests from China and South Korea.

The significant-hyped runway clarify modified into considered as a boon to Hong Kong’s worldwide image and a signal of the lush giant’s commitment to Asian markets.

LVMH, the enviornment’s greatest luxury goods neighborhood and guardian company of both Dior and Louis Vuitton, remaining month posted anecdote gross sales and profits in 2023 – despite the indisputable truth that boost slowed in the 2d half of.