My Love-Hate Relationship with Chinese Fashion Finds Okay, confession time. I was that person. The one who’d scroll past ads for ‘Shein hauls’ or ‘Temu must-haves’ with a slightly judgmental eyebrow raise. “Fast fashion from China? No thanks,” I’d think, smugly clutching my (heavily discounted) designer bag. My style mantra was ‘quality over quantity,’ a principle I felt was incompatible with ordering from the other side of the world. Then, last winter, a desperate search for a very specific, sequinned cowboy boot—the kind not found in any store in Berlin—led me down a rabbit hole. One tentative AliExpress order later, and my entire perspective on buying products from China did…