{"id":17337,"date":"2018-10-04T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17337"},"modified":"2018-10-04T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:23:04","slug":"times-like-these-wont-keep-chinese-shoppers-away-from-gucci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17337","title":{"rendered":"Times like these won&#8217;t keep Chinese shoppers away from Gucci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>Trade war? Economic slowdown? Come what may, big-spending Chinese consumers won&#8217;t be denied luxury.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Chinese shoppers that abandoned luxury brands during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/28\/asia\/china-corruption-zhang-yang-suicide\/index.html\">government crackdown on corruption<\/a> are now delivering a wave of sales to fashion houses that have come to depend on their voracious appetite for watches, handbags and clothes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Kering (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=PPRUF\">KER<\/a>), the owner of Gucci and Alexander McQueen, said that sales in China skyrocketed 30% in the first half of 2018. French fashion house Hermes credited sales in the country for record profits over the same period. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)Trade war? Economic slowdown? Come what may, big-spending Chinese consumers won&#8217;t be denied luxury.Chinese shoppers that abandoned luxury brands during a government crackdown on corruption are now delivering a wave of sales to fashion houses that have come to depend on their voracious appetite for watches, handbags and clothes.Kering (KER), the owner of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}