China’s fashion queen

NOTHING quite demonstrates the potential of China’s consumers as the country’s proliferation of luxury malls.

In downtown Beijing, a one-mile stretch of Jianguomen Inner Street is lined with half a dozen of them. Each the size of London’s Shepherd’s Bush Westfield, together they present an A-Z of international high-end retail — from Armani to Louis Vuitton, any brand that’s any brand has a shop there.

In the heart of this kingdom of haute consumerism, you find the offices of Vogue China, where editor-in-chief Angelica Cheung holds court.