To celebrate the festive spirit of the year of the Tiger, many brands in fashion, beauty, and watches and jewellery have launched limited-edition collections featuring their own take of the feline. From regal and fierce to downright adorable, here are the Tiger-themed designs to collect right now before they are sold out.
Ferragamo has tapped on Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu to create this Tiger design inspired by ancient paintings. The creation is part of the Silk Road exhibition currently held at the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence. Besides the tiger motif, other auspicious animals such as monkeys, eagles and deers are also vividly painted on the classic Studio handbags.
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Major watch and jewellery brands have been celebrating the Lunar New Year with special designs launched yearly before the start of spring. Harry Winston has created this fun design, limited to only eight pieces, with 18k rose, 139 brilliant-cut diamonds (2.57 carats), one emerald-cut diamond (0.02 carats) and a shiny red alligator leather strap.
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It’s not a coincidence: There were a few traces on the fashion week runways last September but this season, we’ve seen tiger prints eclipse leopard patterns. Jil Sander kept the print true to colour while Dolce & Gabbana made tops and skirts with red and black tiger patterns, each with their own uniqueness.
Italian label Furla releases interesting designs every season and they’ve celebrated the New Year with a small rectangular shoulder bag. The adorable design takes the iconic Ares monogrammed leather with cartoon tiger patterns. The detachable adjustable shoulder strap transforms the top handle handbag into a shoulder or crossbody bag.
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This beautiful cushion foundation imparts a luminous matte finish with medium to full buildable coverage. A light coating is enough to hide various imperfections and textures, and touts oil-controlling abilities while not caking or clogging pores. It is available in only one shade, 1W1 Bone.
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Besides having a new Tiger design, the beloved Double Serum is upgraded in size (to 75ml) this year. The set also comes with mini sizes of the V Shaping Facial Lift, Total Eye Lift, Lip Comfort Oil Mini in 04 Candy and Tonic Body Treatment Oil. The biphase Double Serum is formulated with 21 plant extracts including turmeric to help increase cell turnover and plump up skin.
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Pandora is known for its seasonal collections. This year’s drop includes a rose gold Chinese Tiger Charm as well as other familiar motifs such as mahjong tiles, phoenix and fortune cat.
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It isn’t creative director Jeremy Scott’s first time incorporating the breakfast cereal box into his works. This year, to coincide with the year of the Tiger, he invited Tony The Tiger, the mascot of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes cereal brand to appear in a series of outfits and accessories.
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The Pink Panther created in the 1960s may be familiar to many of us. But have you heard of the Panther Tiger? The motif was specially created by Saint Laurent to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Besides the pattern, pay attention to the tiger stripes on the drawstrings.
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With Rita the Rate and Ozzie the Ox, American label Tory Burch continues the trend with Tanya the Tiger. Like the previous two, Tany the Tiger also goes for an adorable tiger dressed in the T Monogram knit.
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Max Mara welcomed the tiger cub Tigrotto to the #MaxTheTeddy family. Here, you can see the playful cub lying against the M logo of MaxMaraGram. The New Year collection also adds the motif to the brand’s signature Whitney bag.
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Ever since Alessandro Michele took over the reins, he has shown his love for the tiger multiple times. One example is the tiger buckle on the Rajah bags launched in 2018. For CNY, Gucci has released the Gucci Tiger collection featuring tiger amidst flora that draws inspiration from a 1960 archival piece.
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This article first appeared in NUYOU. Translation and additional reporting by Ho Guo Xiong.