China Fashion Week glamoring it up

China Fashion Week ranks the sixth among the top 10 fashion weeks globally, with Paris, New York and London the top 3, a report on global fashion week vitality index has revealed.

The ranking by Shanghai-based China Economic Information Service, a subsidiary of Xinhua News Agency, was based on a number of indexes such as media influence, radiometric level of commercial circles like the percentage of high-income consumers, the number of participating brands and activity numbers.

China Fashion Week moved up one spot since last year, when the index was launched.

The fashion week had an outstanding performance in search popularity on social media, and its performance in boosting commercial circle consumption has also soared, according to China Economic Information Service.

China's fashion industry was worth 5.34 trillion yuan (US$756 billion) last year, up from 3.26 billion yuan in 2015.

The China Fashion Week will run from October 25 to November 2 in Beijing.