China Heads to Europe to Recruit Fashion Talent

Posted on May 3, 2008 
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Last summer, Peter Ng traveled to Nottingham Trent University in England, home to one of Europe’s top design schools, to recruit a team of young fashion designers.

The candidates he met dreamed of designing for the fashion houses in Milan and Paris. Mr. Ng, director of yarn manufacturer Colour Couture, made a different pitch: a job in Shanghai designing collections using the company’s yarns, for marketing to trendy U.S. brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch.

A few weeks later, Mr. Ng was back in Shanghai rolling out the welcome mat for three Nottingham Trent recruits, including 24-year-old Laura Hintz and 22-year-old Eleanor Gould, both graduates. More…

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