HONG KONG-FASHION-DESIGN-ECONOMY-LIFESTYLE

In this piture taken on March 16, 2017, pedestrians walk outside a shop of start-up retailer Grana in Hong Kong. Soulless supermalls housing luxury labels, traditional suit tailors, and markets full of cheap designer knock-offs, Hong Kong's flaccid fashion scene has long struggled to compete with the sartorial cool of Tokyo's Harajuku, or the street style of Hongdae in Seoul. But a new generation of independent designers in Hong Kong is changing all that with creations that are putting the city on the international fashion map.  / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: HongKong-fashion-design-economy-lifestyle, FEATURE by Liz THOMAS (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)