Culture & Cool from Asia's most dynamic city
The Hub, a young fashion trade show that continues to gain momentum, celebrated their third season in a sparkling new venue. For their latest event, the organizers selected a more intimate space and packed it with brands looking for wider distribution.
The Hub Hong Kong is an essential fashion trade show for brands looking to reach a wider audience in Asia and for regional buyers to discover a hundred and fifty labels all under one roof.
What enticed The Hundreds, Orlebar Brown, Crumpler, and Barbour (plus 96 others,) to descend on Hong Kong at the end of August?
For years, as Lane Crawford blossomed into an international fashion powerhouse, the Times Square location remained a throwback to the old days of the department store.
Blues Heroes held a fashion show at their newest store at the end of Granville Road on Tuesday night. The shop is decorated with all sorts of props and has remarkably high ceilings. Once inside the doors, it actually didn’t feel like Hong Kong at all!
If there’s one city in the world that doesn’t need help luring shoppers into stores it’s probably Hong Kong! 😉 Fashion’s Night Out was…
Ground-Zero label founders, Eri and Philip Chu, celebrated their most recent collaboration with D-mop at the J-01 pop-up space in Central on Thursday night….
Faced with losing the lease on their iconic flagship location in Central’s Pedder building, (ousted by an absurd bid by Abercrombie & Fitch,) Shanghai…
Was it the lure of fashion darling Olivier Theyskens or something else that packed Lane Crawford, Canton Road last Wednesday night? Though the store…
Darren Emerson, a legendary DJ and former member of the British band Underworld, will be playing at a special event by Japanese brands Moussy…
Opening not one, but two splashy flagship stores recently, Hong Kong’s I.T Ltd. is making its case for top fashion retailer in greater China.
Japanese brands Moussy and SLY packed the SML restaurant in Causeway Bay on Wednesday night for a fashion show titled “Dream Travel.” Check out…
Top models, Elli-Rose and Chikako Watanabe, well known to fans of the influential Japanese magazine ViVi, headlined a fashion show in Tsim Sha Tsui…
Phillip Lim is in the middle of the video at the pause… Celebrated fashion designer Phillip Lim made an appearance at Lane Crawford on…
Dismembering a Teddy bear – or remixing it? Jun Takahashi is half performance artist and half mad scientist when it comes to creating his…
This Friday the 23rd, Diesel is holding an in-store event to celebrate their Spring Summer 2010 denim collection. Titled ‘Sex Sells,” it features racy,…
Outside of film premieres and similar functions, it’s rare to see mega-stars such as Andy Lau in person. So it came as something of…
“Been a long time since I Rock ‘N’ Rolled!” Alchemists once sought unsuccessfully to turn ordinary materials into precious ones. The idea was to…
Check out that classic Rock ‘n’ Roll strut! O.k., so the band’s real name is Housse De Racket, but you could have easily been…
Dysemevas, the pop-up store showcasing designers from China launched last week on the Sheung Wan end of Hollywood Road. The opening night featured a…
Even among trendsetters, Vivienne Westwood has had a colorful career. While other fashion designers mine Punk for inspiration, this pioneer actually lived it and…
D-mop, Comme des Garçons, Martin Margiela, Billionaire Boys Club, and Hoods Hong Kong have a new neighbor. DSquared2 recently opened the doors to their…
[photopress:Dysemevas_China_fashion_sto.gif,full,pp_image] From November 11th until December 21st, Hong Kong will play host to Dysemevas, a pop-up store set in an emerging area along the…
The Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley, stopped by Hong Kong to launch the Spring / Summer 2008 collection of their Elizabeth and James line….
[photopress:Chanel_art_Lagerfeld_Zaha_H.jpg,full,pp_image] I’m still catching up with everything that transpired last week. Wednesday night, Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer extraordinaire, and lauded architect Zaha Hadid were…
Wednesday night was the launch of the Adidas Originals / Diesel Denim collaboration. The event was held on Kingston Street in Causeway Bay in…
[photopress:Chanel_art_show_Hong_Kong_H.jpg,full,pp_image] Last week I booked a ticket to check out the Chanel Mobile Art exhibition on opening day, Wednesday, February 27th. Getting there today…
[photopress:Lane_Crawford_China_fashion.jpg,full,pp_image] A trip to Lane Crawford used to mean simply walking through as a shortcut between the two sides of Pacific Place shopping mall….
[photopress:Coach_Central_Hong_Kong_HK.jpg,full,pp_image] Coach, the American brand initially known for its leather handbags is aggressively entering the Hong Kong market and looking to establish itself in…
[photopress:Guy_Bourdin_fashion_photo.jpg,full,pp_image] © The Estate of Guy Bourdin An upcoming exhibition features the work of Guy Bourdin, a prominent fashion photographer and innovator of the…