Kasing Lung returns to Shanghai as Labubu marks 10th anniversary
Kasing Lung's Shanghai stop tied Moynat's Labubu collaboration to a 10th anniversary Monsters show, with 1,100 figures and a global tour signaling the next phase.
Kasing Lung put Labubu back in the spotlight in Shanghai as The Monsters marked its 10th anniversary and Moynat kept its limited-edition collaboration moving toward launch. The pairing showed collectors two sides of the franchise at once: the original artist still steering the characters, and a luxury house turning them into a broader crossover platform.
The Shanghai exhibition was titled Monsters by Monsters: Now and Then and was co-curated by HOW2WORK. Its installation mix included large-scale sculptures, preparatory drawings and mirrored installations, along with Hong Kong-exclusive works. One social post from the event showed a wall of 1,100 Labubu toys and figurines, a scale that captured how far the character has traveled from niche designer toy to a mass fan display.
Moynat's project was billed as an exclusive limited-edition collaboration with Kasing Lung, creator of The Monsters, and the line highlighted his work through the house's craftsmanship. The collection featured Labubu, Zimomo and King Mon on Moynat Signature M canvas. Another post from Shanghai showed Kasing Lung signing a Moynat Labubu bag, while a separate image from the exhibition placed Tim Cook alongside Kasing Lung and Pop Mart founder Wang Ning.
The rollout also stretched beyond one room in Shanghai. The Monsters 10th Anniversary World Tour was set to move on to Taipei, Hong Kong, Paris, Tokyo and New York City, while Moynat said its collaboration would launch October 11 in Shanghai. That combination of a touring exhibition and a luxury capsule made the anniversary feel less like a retrospective and more like a coordinated push into the next phase of the franchise.
Shanghai, in that sense, was the point where the pieces met: the anniversary show, the luxury collaboration and Kasing Lung himself. For Labubu collectors, that is the clearest signal that the character's story is still being shaped in public, not left to the market alone.
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