There's good news and bad new for Shanghai fashionistas this month – the bad is that pop-up store nana & bird is taking flight after a six...
Fashionable people, just a reminder: tonight is this month's installement of Dada bar's "Night Market" -- locally-based independent designers...
Who, where, what, how, why, wherefore, from whence in December. The next month in arts, dining, music, clubbing, and more in Shanghai.
If you were soaking up the sunshine in Fuxing Park this weekend you'll have eyed a slightly, well, chicer crowd than the usual opera singers,...
Keep this in mind for Sunday afternoon... Central Studios is hosting another flea market, autumn sale from 10am to 6pm, featuring arts, crafts,...
Urban farming, fashion, up-cycled robots, hydroponics, and more at the sixth Eco Design Fair, all day this Saturday at The Waterhouse.
Be they fake or real, Chanel handbags have long graced the slender arms of stylish fashionistas everywhere, especially Shanghai. Now the chic...
On August 6 and 7, is FREXH, a two-day showcase of "emerging" international and Mainland artists, working in a variety of fields: visual arts,...
Down in the leafy French Concession, at a cross street where people are selling music-y things, there is a dress shop that draws the attention...
Shokay gets it's name from the Tibetan word for “yak”, and fibers hand-combed from yaks by Tibetan herders are for sale in their two Shanghai...
Buying glasses is one of the great bonuses of living in this city because you can pretty much get a pair of glasses in under an hour at about 1/10 of the...
It been a while since garage band Banana Monkey took the stage in Shanghai, but erstwhile BM front man Bono has been reassuming the...

Fantastic locally-based stylist Lolo runs a nirvana of a vintage fashion workshop amongst the galleries of 696 Weihai Lu called "Lolo Love...

For us computer-type people some genius invented the USB-powered footwarmer, thereby offering to the world what I consider to be the absolute hight of...
With only THREE DAYS to go until Halloween, now is the time to start panicking -- PANICKING -- to get a good Halloween costume together. ...

Attention analog types: the Lomography Store on Jinxian Lu -- aka the road of fengshui excellence -- has recently expanded in a big way.
Streetaholic is a bi-weekly feature on SmartShanghai, consisting of the street photography of Shanghai-based photographer Patrick Wack...
Streetaholic is a new bi-weekly feature on SmartShanghai, consisting of the street photography of Shanghai-based photographer Patrick Wack...
Cairn Wu, founder of fashion label Kaileeni, recently launched her Spring 2009 collection. The series highlights her trademark sense of...
The Nerd Mall is two floors of video game, figurines, and cosplay stores selling everything from smutty Dead or Alive toys to Sailor Moon wigs to obscure...
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