Yves Saint Laurent’s Fall 09 Manifesto

Mark your diaries for YSL’s Fall 2009-2010 Manifesto scheduled for September 12, 2009.

YSL is hitting the streets again this Saturday, this time to launch their fall 09 Manifesto. 1500 custom cotton tote bag designed by Stefano Pilati will be handed out to passerbys. Keeping in the tradition of the YSL Manifestos, it will be distributed in the streets of the major fashion cities: Paris, New York, Milan, London, Tokyo, Seoul  and Hong Kong.  Head over to Queen’s Road (near Marks & Spencer) at around 12 noon to pick one up.

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Le French May in Hong Kong

It’s Paris in Causeway Bay.

For the month of May its the 15th Anniversary of “Le Fench May” in Hong Kong and there is a ton of interesting French things happening in town. You can check it all out on their website at Frenchmay.com but here are a few highlights:

• • • And don’t miss the spiffy Eiffel Tower at Times Square from now until the end of May with a Retrospective exhibition at the 2/f Lobby. So get ready to load up on frog legs, baguette’s and people dressed up like Marie Antoinette for the whole of May. We are definitely à l’idée de faire.

    May 8 – Emilie Simon
    May 10-23 – The Fantasy World of Jacques Demy
    May 19 – French Wine Fair

Super Shopping at Emax

East Kowloon gets new mall.

Emax is a 900,000 sq. ft of pure shopping power is taking over the top 8 floors at HITEC this Summer. Party goers, bowling enthusiasts and convention attendees will know about HITEC but now there are more reasons to go there.

Do we need another giant mall in Hong Kong? I guess we’ll find out – but this one is boasting a 30,000 sq ft. Game Centre including snooker zone, online gaming and interactive gaming zones. Even cooler is that the mall will have Segway’s speeding around.

This is obviously a throwdown by the HITEC people to keep conventioneers coming to their place rather than go to HKCEC or Macau. We’ll definitely have a look when it opens.

Emax site is here.

2-for-1 at Marks and Spencer

Casuaul tops for men and women.

Limited time only, hop over to any Hong Kong Marks and Spencer and when you buy 2 selected men or women’s casual tops you’ll get a third one free. That is how I understand 2-for-1 to work these days, anyways.

List of HK M&S locations here. And click here for a quick and neat background of M&S, did you know that M&S has 450 stores in the UK and 192 internationally and that the one in HK is wholly-owned by them and not a franchisee? Yes, go shopping now with more knowledge of the place you are shopping in!

Limited Edition Louis Quatorze

20 special gold bags to celebrate opening of Hong Kong shop.

New kid on the block, well in Hong Kong anyways, French fashion brand Louis Quatorze, which recently opened their 1st store at SkyPlaza, Hong Kong’s International Airport have launched a limited edition gold leather bag dubbed the NICE TWO Shoulder to commemorate their arrival in Hong Kong fashion scene.

With only 20 of these babies made worldwide, the Hong Kong store gets 10 because its the 10th anniversary of HKSAR’s reunification with the motherland, silly.

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