(Bloomberg) -- At 7 a.m. on a recent morning, Simon Collins wasat his office in New York making a video call to China.

The fashion consultant was about to launch into his plans for anupcoming conference he’s organizing before his overseas colleagueinterrupted: “Are you in your grandmother’s dining room?”

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