Fashion icon Michael Kors comes to Beijing to open his biggest flagship store in Asia, telling Chen Jie he's loving the country's full-tilt ride into the future.

On a recent, terribly smoggy afternoon, Michael Kors sat down to talk about his latest project, Young China, and his new flagship store in Beijing.

Looking out the window of our meeting room on the 22nd floor of the Rosewood Hotel, I could not help sighing at the sight of the gray lanes of old buildings along the capital's East Third Ring Road.