China's consumers move away from blink - Shaun Rein

Shaun Rein

Paris and Europe in general are losing track as hot spots for buying luxury goods, as the crisis hits China's middle class, and consumers move from luxury goods to lifestyle, tells business analyst Shaun Rein in WSJ. "Why buying expensive goods, if you cannot have clean water and air?"

While the top-end of luxury buying remains strong, the major shift +Shaun Rein sees in the middle-class, who bought most luxury goods anyway. In the first quarter luxury buying in Europe by Chinese only grew 18%, and numbers might be even more on the way down, as Chinese cut spending back in a slowing economy.

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