Shanghai Vive or Shuangmei () is a Chinese luxury cosmetics brand.
''Shuangmei'' — translated into English as ''Two Girls'' — originated as a trade mark of The House of Kwong Sang Hong Limited, founded in 1898 in
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
, and stationed in
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
in 1903. Under Communist China's public-private partnership policy, the Shanghai branch of Kwong Sang Hong was subsumed into the Shanghai Jahwa Corporation in 1956, and the ''Shuangmei'' brand gradually discontinued in
Mainland China
"Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...
.
In 2010, Shanghai Jahwa Corporation has restarted the ''Shuangmei'' brand, and adopted the English name ''Shanghai Vive'';
China's first high-end fashion cosmetics brand "Shuangmei (Shanghai Vive)" was listed (in Chinese)
/ref> the English translation ''Two Girls'' cannot be used as it remains a trade mark of Kwong Sang Hong in Hong Kong.
See also
* Florida Water
Florida Water is an American version of Eau de Cologne, or Cologne Water. It has the same citrus basis as Cologne Water, but shifts the emphasis to sweet orange (rather than the lemon and neroli of the original Cologne Water), and adds spicy note ...
References
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Manufacturing companies based in Shanghai
Cosmetics brands