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DUTIES, SHIPPING AND RETURNS, CALCULATED BEFORE YOU ORDER · 联袂ISSUE 001 · SPRING 2026

Chinese Fashion Brands to Know Now

A working directory of contemporary Chinese labels. Each entry carries its Chinese name, city, designer and a route to buy — traced to a primary Chinese source, dated, and explicit about what is still unresolved.

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Search the reported records, then limit the list to labels with a route MEI has verified. A route can still carry duties or return costs, so open the record before ordering.

Western purchase route

6 records

  • Amazing Song

    乙颂

    Ships from the brand's own store

    Guangzhou · handbags, leather goods

    Reviewed 2026-07-28

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  • BAMPO

    半坡饰族

    Ships from the brand's own store

    Guangzhou · handbags, leather goods

    Reviewed 2026-07-28

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  • DISSONA

    迪桑娜

    Not verified

    Shenzhen · handbags, leather goods, footwear

    Reviewed 2026-07-28

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  • GROTTO

    个乐

    Not verified

    Hong Kong · handbags, leather goods

    Reviewed 2026-08-18

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  • Qiu Zhen

    裘真

    Not verified

    Foshan · handbags, leather goods

    Reviewed 2026-07-28

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  • Songmont

    山下有松

    Ships from the brand's own store

    Shanxi · handbags, leather goods

    Reviewed 2026-08-18

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Amazing Song

乙颂

From a ten-square-metre shop to the Soft Euro bag

Amazing Song opened in winter 2013 in a Beijing shop of just over ten square metres. Its history charts an entire commercial era: private WeChat customers, customer-financed e-commerce, blogger seeding and a breakout soft bag.

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4 open questions — listed on the profile

Chinese name
乙颂
Also known as
Not verified
City
Guangzhou
Founded
2013
Designer
Zhang Nana 张娜娜 (Nina Zhang)
Categories
handbags, leather goods
Ships to the West
Ships from the brand's own store

BAMPO

半坡饰族

The museum object that refused to stay behind glass

Huang Lang encountered the Neolithic human-face and fish-pattern basin from the Banpo site and asked why that beauty should stay behind glass. He founded 半坡饰族 in Chongqing in 1997.

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5 open questions — listed on the profile

Chinese name
半坡饰族
Also known as
Not verified
City
Guangzhou
Founded
1997
Designer
Huang Lang 黄浪
Categories
handbags, leather goods
Ships to the West
Ships from the brand's own store

DISSONA

迪桑娜

The Shenzhen workshop hidden inside a polished brand

DISSONA is met today as a mature national retail label. Its own history places a decade of Shenzhen workshop production before the brand name existed — and gives three different founding dates.

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5 open questions — listed on the profile

Chinese name
迪桑娜
Also known as
Not verified
City
Shenzhen
Founded
1985
Designer
Not verified
Categories
handbags, leather goods, footwear
Ships to the West
Not verified

GROTTO

个乐

The bag that expects to change

GROTTO's founder says he designs only the first half of an object. Time and its user are expected to complete the rest — which is why the brand values leather precisely because it is unstable.

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6 open questions — listed on the profile

Chinese name
个乐
Also known as
Not verified
City
Hong Kong
Founded
2001
Designer
Huang Boqing 黄柏青
Categories
handbags, leather goods
Ships to the West
Not verified

Qiu Zhen

裘真

A house built around the idea of truth

Cheng Baohua came to bags from the chemical side of the leather trade. The first project was called 求真小屋 — the little house for seeking truth — and the name survived the abbreviation.

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6 open questions — listed on the profile

Chinese name
裘真
Also known as
TRUUZEN
City
Foshan
Founded
2014
Designer
Cheng Baohua 程宝华
Categories
handbags, leather goods
Ships to the West
Not verified

Songmont

山下有松

The laptop bag that became a second life

Songmont began in 2013 with an ordinary design failure: Fu Song needed to carry a 15-inch laptop and found only bags that could not do the job. She and her mother sewed the first tote by hand.

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6 open questions — listed on the profile

Chinese name
山下有松
Also known as
Not verified
City
Shanxi
Founded
2013
Designer
Fu Song 付崧
Categories
handbags, leather goods
Ships to the West
Ships from the brand's own store

Methodology

How this was checked

  • · Every published field is led by an official Chinese source or a Chinese-language founder interview
  • · Marketplace listings (1688, Taobao, Alibaba OEM) are never used as a source for names, prices or images
  • · Where sources disagree on a founding date, the disagreement is published rather than resolved by choice
  • · Details found only in unattributed internet summaries are excluded, not paraphrased

What we could not verify

  • · These are reported drafts. Each brand has been sent nothing yet — a written fact-check is still outstanding for all six
  • · Sales, sourcing, awards and manufacturing claims remain attributed to the brand until records or institutional confirmation are obtained
  • · Search-volume and competitive data in the underlying brief is semantic, not a paid keyword run

Last reviewed 18 August 2026