Vista di un negozio boutique di Dolce & Gabbana presso un centro commerciale per lo shopping nella città di Hangzhou, a est della Cina di provincia dello Zhejiang, 16 dicembre 2018. Infine, alcuni andare
View of a boutique store of Dolce & Gabbana at a shopping mall in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, 16 December 2018. Finally, some good news for fans of Italian luxury brands. One month after Chinese e-commerce sites dropped Dolce & Gabbana from their platforms over a scandal-making ad campaign, a different Italian seller has become available to online shoppers in China. On Tuesday, Luxury brand Bottega Veneta launched a flagship store on Tmall, China's biggest online-shopping platform, Alibaba confirmed to Caixin. To highlight the opening, Bottega Veneta chose to debut its latest luxury handbag on Tmall two weeks earlier than in its brick-and-mortar stores. Bottega Veneta is the second brand from France¯s Kering Group ¨C one of the world's three largest luxury groups ¨C to open a store on Tmall. Kering is not the only luxury giant to launch flagship stores on China's e-commerce platforms, however: Richemont, which owns Cartier and Chlo¨¦, announced in October that it would establish a joint venture with Alibaba to bring luxury brands to online customers. Dolce & Gabbana, however ¨C another Richemont brand ¨C remains in purgatory after its publicity disaster a few weeks ago. Tmall's Luxury Pavilion has embraced more than 80 brands by far, including Valentino, Versace and Burberry.
