Every branch, clothing first

Lantern groups things by what they are, not by which marketplace department they happened to be listed under. Taobao, Tmall and 1688 each maintain their own category trees and none of them agree: a 400gsm loopback hoodie can sit under men's tops, autumn new arrivals, or a shop's own invented bucket depending on who typed the listing. That is flattened into 16 departments and 104 branches that match how people actually search.

Clothing leads because that is what the catalogue is: 100% of live listings sit in the 6 wearable departments above. The rest is real and worth browsing, and it is one section down rather than given equal billing at the top. Bags used to be its own department and now sits inside Accessories, which is where somebody shopping for one actually looks. Old links still resolve.

Every node is a destination rather than a filter state. A department page carries its branch list, the facets that matter there (colour and material for clothing, price and evidence depth for electronics), community ratings, warehouse QC photos and cost estimates through every purchasing agent we track. A branch page runs the same machinery over one shelf and adds a price distribution, so you can see where the sensible money sits before you start narrowing. Where a product could plausibly live in two places it goes in the one people search for, and cross-links carry you to the other.