Lane Crawford

Lane Crawford was founded in 1850 in Hong Kong by Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford as a small import-and-supply operation initially serving the British colonial trading community in Hong Kong. The brand expanded through the 19th and 20th centuries to become Hong Kong's first multi-floor luxury department store, with the flagship Pedder Street store (and later the IFC, Times Square, and Canton Road locations) anchoring the brand's position in the Hong Kong-and-Mainland-China luxury market. The Lane Crawford vocabulary settled around several distinguishing things: a buyer-led brand list anchored to the major LVMH, Kering, and Richemont houses plus a particularly strong selection of contemporary international and Chinese designers (The Row, Khaite, Toteme, Wales Bonner, Bottega Veneta, Loewe, Saint Laurent, plus Chinese designers like Uma Wang, Ms MIN, Pronounce, and Particle Fever), the iconic Lane Crawford Joyce magazine, and the Joyce sub-store concept that operated as a more avant-garde sister brand. The Pedder Building flagship, redesigned by Yabu Pushelberg in 2013, is considered one of the defining luxury department store interiors in Asia. Lane Crawford is owned by the Lane Crawford Joyce Group (the Hong Kong holding company controlled by the Wu family, descendants of the original Lane and Crawford founding families). The retailer operates flagships in Hong Kong (IFC, Times Square, Canton Road, Pedder Building), Beijing (Seasons Place), Shanghai (Times Square), Chengdu, plus a substantial e-commerce platform serving Greater China. The flagship at IFC, which spans approximately 80,000 square feet across four floors, is one of the most-visited luxury department store locations in Hong Kong.