An Inside Look at the Shanghai Creatives Designer Market
Address: 1376 West Nanjing Lu
Opening hours: Thursday, 12th April, 10am - 5pm
Spring is finally here and so is the first Shanghai Creatives Designer Market of the year. More than 50 creative designers are thrilled to welcome and show you their new spring collections, at Shanghai Centre’s plaza. You can enjoy a unique selection of clothing & accessories, jewelry, home decor, kids items, bags and much more. Stop by Shanghai Creatives Spring Designer Market and get kitted out for the new season!
Here is a sneak preview of some of the designers that will be present this Thursday.
Handbags
Fiorella blues
Fiorella Blues Paris is a French brand of leather handbags and purses, designed and crafted by a French designer, they use high quality imported Italian leather and original unique designs.
WeChat: Fiorellablues
Qulu
Qulu is a brand of handbags for women who care about expressing their own style and who appreciate luxury and fine quality. Classic, interesting & functional - these are the core concepts at the heart of their design ethic. It's all about mixing up unique textures and colors with classic shapes to create contemporary yet practical pieces for modern women.
WeChat: QULUCREATIONS
Home Décor & Gifts
Ta Xiang
Ta Xiang offers imported, handmade, high quality, and unique lifestyle products for personal and home use. Ta Xiang is a brand by women - founded by women; from women - made by skillful women artisans, and for women - for you and your family. Through Ta Xiang, we wish to connect all women through a common bridge of appreciation of beauty, authenticity and the magic of the human hand.
WeChat: etaxiang
Elephant Parade
Elephant Parade is a social enterprise with a unique combination of art, business and conservation. They aim to raise awareness and support for elephant issues on a worldwide basis in a fun, informative and inspiring way. The limited edition and handcrafted merchandise are created from their exhibition elephants, which are all designed by famous artists and celebrities. Part of the profits are donated to save Asian elephants. Elephant Parade believes in the power of a global movement to make a happier world. So be part of it, and let’s paint a brighter future!
WeChat: ElephantParade
ESNA BOX
ESNA BOX is the modern-day gift package, where every gift box has a story and caters to an experience. At ESNA BOX, their goal is to create thoughtful gift boxes, offered with simplicity and ease. Take advantage of their signature Custom Gift Design Service for wedding, corporate and social gifting or choose from a collection of ready-to-ship pre-designed gifts perfect for celebrating new beginnings, birthdays, weddings, congratulations and most any other occasion at hand.
WeChat: esnabox
The Shanghai Gift Company
The Shanghai Gift Company is a collection of Chinese inspired gifts that blend Eastern aesthetics with Western concepts. Their goal is to create meaningful and fun mementos that speak to the China expat experience. They offer an assortment of gifts including greeting cards, candles, and other novelties that embody the spirit of Shanghai through a variety of styles that range from traditional Chinese designs to modern Asian motifs.
WeChat: shanghai-gift-co
Beijing Postcards
Beijing postcards, collecting the memories of a country in transition talks, exhibitions antique maps and prints and more.
WeChat: 18612442152
Homedeco
Homedeco creates unusual souvenirs made of photo collages or Chinese inspired design. These products include umbrellas, pillow covers, storage baskets, shoppers, lens clothes, keyrings, pouffes, benches, oven mits, trays, and more.
WeChat: Demaik
DTL Home and Garden Furniture
DTL Home and Garden Furniture has been around for over 15 years with two beautiful large showrooms in both Pudong and Puxi. DTL offers a wide variety of furniture styles including Chinese antique, Chinese nouveau, rustic European, classic American as well as outdoor patio furniture, children's bedroom furniture, Afghanistan handmade rugs, home accessories and more!
WeChat: DTLfurniture
Dahlia
Dahlia designs staple items for the contemporary lifestyle, offering handmade woven on looms cotton and bamboo towels, throws, shawls, beach wear and beach bags. The brand is inspired by the ancient Ottoman tradition and thus focuses on luxury woven products. Using only the finest Turkish cotton, which is highly absorbent and dry quick, the fabrics are particularly color-fast and durable, so with the proper care you're guaranteed almost a lifetime of use!
WeChat: selinkireccioglu
Website: www.tuliptowels.com
Pinyin Press
Pinyin Press is a design-led brand of home accessories, lifestyle products and gifts inspired by contemporary Asia. Products include tea towels, tote bags, coasters, ceramic salt and pepper shakers and mugs which make great gifts and souvenirs of China. Through beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, prints and pattern, Pinyin Press designs celebrate the inherent charms of Asian culture and cuisine. Pinyin Press is founded by Sarah, a British designer and graduate of Central Saint Martins, London.
WeChat: PinyinPress
Ellaphant设计师画铺
Ellaphant is a water colorist who paints flowers, birds and nude women. She uses Chinese ink painting in a modern and contemporary way to create flowing designs.
WeChat: ellaphant
SENLAB 森态坊
Chinese element based fragrances in design. Natural essential oils, Porcelain material soy candles; Oriental scented room diffusers.
WeChat: 森态坊SENLAB
Children’s Clothing
Wobabybasics
Wobabybasics offers a simplified thoughtfully-designed collection of children's clothing (0-8 years) made of GOTS certified organic cotton and produced with a commitment to quality, fair trade and the environment. Wobabybasics materialized after the arrival of designer Sherry Poon's firstborn. Fascinated by her child's playful movements, Sherry combined her background in architecture with a staunch environmentalist mantra. Striving for children's garb as good to the little ones as it is to the earth itself, Wobabybasics was born.
Weidian: www.shop.wobabybasics.com
Chulala
Chulala is a local Chinese independent design studio specializing in kids living style. Cotton, linen and bamboo fiber are used for all of their products. Their newly arrived swaddles, summer blankets have brought more fun prints and spring colors.
WeChat: chulalashanghai
MON P’TIT Boudoir
MON P’TIT Boudoir is a French company that creates beautiful home decorations for baby, kids and adults. Born in Shanghai in 2014, this beautiful brand offers ornaments, bed linen, duvets and bed bumpers. Each piece in super soft cotton or linen to transform your everyday life, redecorate a kids' room, creating a calm and relaxing environment, while not forgetting to bring an extra touch of style to your home.
WeChat: Monptitboudoir
My Sweet Potato
My Sweet Potato is a Spanish designed child wear brand. Made with best quality linen-cotton for the small ones.
WeChat: Mingxiao311
The Plush Shop
Plush | Express Your Sole presents legwear that is comfortable and practical but without losing the fashion essence. Created out of frustrations of functional socks for children, as the founder and designer of the Brand, Lyn, Mother of Three, created a design for infant and children's socks that stay on their feet
WeChat: thePlushShop
C’era Una Volta
C’era Una Volta is an Italian label created for newborns through to twelve year-olds since 2015. Delicate, pure and refined, it is a modern brand dedicated to dressing children beautifully, just as they are.
WeChat: italiandesignkids
Jewelry
Cai Ci Fang
All of the arts are designed by the Caicifang workshop and made from antique Chinese porcelain fragments. Caicifang give new life to these shards of vases, bowls, plates and teacups, collected for decades by the owner of brand.
WeChat:13167325166
【EC ECHO CHEN】
【EC ECHO CHEN】Fine craftsmanship jewelry. simple and unique. Inspired from a mix of architectural structure and Chinese art. Each piece is one-of-a-kind.
WeChat: ecechochen
Website: www.ecechochen.com
Fernanda Sung Jewelry
Fernanda Sung is a Brazilian designer based in Shanghai. Her jewelry designs, made in sterling silver, invite us to see the world in a more beautiful and positive way. Every collection tells a different story, making each piece not only an accessory that dresses you up, but also a meaningful piece close to your heart.
WeChat: fernandasungjewelry
lamjewelry
lamjewelry is a creative jewelry brand founded by Jenny in 2014. lamjewelry opens wide to imagination and creativity, it makes intriguing discoveries sometimes and it sees beauty in everything.
WeChat: byjenjenlamlam
AWU Fine Jewelry
AWÜ is a contemporary jewelry brand founded by Canadian design artist Angie Wu in 2014. From her atelier in downtown Shanghai, she designs and creates concept-driven fine jewelry. Her work consists of collections of unique jewelry pieces ranging from very wearable limited edition designs, to one-of-a-kind artwork.
WeChat: angiewush
Website: www.awustudio.com
Christian Marolho
Christian Marolho focuses on modern femininity with collections that are once chic and edgy. The designs are way to cool for 2018, and way to cool for flashy fashion.
WeChat: Christianmarolho
Epermarket
Epermarket is your online expat supermarket, where you can find the products and brands you miss, from a place you can trust. ISO 9001 certified, they also routinely test their fresh products with SGS. Choose from over 7,000 international and everyday products at diverse price ranges and have them delivered directly to your doorstep. They make grocery shopping – and your life – even easier!
WeChat: Epermarket
Greenwave
Greenwave is your one-stop solution provider for a healthier living environment. Their full range of solutions covering testing, water treatment and air treatment can meet the needs for both residential and commercial needs. Greenwave is now serving over 6000 families and 500+ businesses with cleaner water and air within more than 20 cities throughout china including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hongkong, Hanzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, etc.
WeChat: Greenwave888
CLAU
A Korean company with over 15 years of experience, their products are specially designed by Korean experts in this industry. They are proud to have solid on-going B2B businesses with five world known companies. Currently we are focusing on our FS Series Filters for shower, sink, and the laundry machine, as well as break through technology that creates HOCl just using tap or mineral water. HOCl eliminates all bacteria 99.999% but is 100% safe to spray anywhere.
Website: www.claulife.com
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