This past Friday, in partnership with the Hong Kong megastore Joyce, Sarah

This past Friday, in partnership with the Hong Kong megastore Joyce, Sarah Burton hosted a celebrity-studded cocktail at the new boutique in the swanky Sanlitun North Village shopping center, followed the next night by a recreation of the fall 2011 collection for 300 of Beijing’s mostest. A cast of Chinese models—Liu Xu, Zhang Xu Chao, Chen Bi Ke, Xie Fei Yuan, Li Dan Ni—paraded the collection down the runway.

Executives at Burberry, which staged a special effects spectacular in Beijing earlier this year, have said that the future of China and the future of the house are ‘inseparable’. Prada expects its sales in the Asian powerhouse to triple over the next two to three years.