Despite a rise in big companies offering looks similar to hers, Chinese fashion designer Alicia Lee’s outfits are still a cut above the rest.

The Central Saint Martins graduate, whose clothes have been worn by Alicia Vikander, Olivia Colman and Solange Knowles, has been showing at London Fashion Week since 2016.

“New Chinese style” merges all manner of contemporary design with traditional Chinese aesthetics, applied to everything from clothing to furniture. Here’s why it’s become popular.

On Friday, Hu's national fashion tour premiered at the Red T Art District. One hundred Chinese women, made up of China's top supermodels and Hu Sheguang's team of female models, dressed in ...