Wednesday. 9 September. 2009. 9:45 am
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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Thursday. 31 May. 2007. 11:36 am
Grab what you can this weekend from 4 big brands.
In Quarry Bay, today till Saturday at Oxford House in Taikoo Place; check out a big off season sale on Moschino, Blumarine Anna Molinari, Paul Smith and J.M. Weston.
Click here to get the full details.
Thursday. 31 May. 2007. 10:24 am
More interestingly, is that people are still buying CD’s.
You can buy the new Maroon 5 CD and thousands of others on CD Wow’s website in the UK for cheaper than you would find on any other UK music site. What CD Wow does is import the cheaper versions that are made for the local Hong Kong market and sell them at their site for what is apparently incredibly low-prices:
CD Wow originally imported cheap CDs from Hong Kong but promised as long ago as 2004 to stop the practice.
However, in March the company was found guilty of continuing the trade and last week was fined £36 million damages and £5 million interest as penalty for its actions.
Yesterday CD Wow — a privately held company with little-known British and European founders — said that the BPI was able to cite only 39 instances of the rules being breached, a fraction of the 10,000 CDs it ships a day.
This was a big thing in Hong Kong 10 years ago about parallel imports, now that Hong Kong lost so much to piracy all the record labels and movie companies had to drop their wholesale prices to compete, and now its so cheap that other countries that don’t have such rampant piracy can capitalize on it.
Our bigger shock than this story was that people in the U.K. still buy physical CD’s and from this one retailer equals 10,000 a day??!!! Even at a discount, how much is Virgin and HMV selling in the UK a day?
Thursday. 31 May. 2007. 9:50 am
Heavy fines for sending out junk mail in Hong Kong.
Marketers Beware: Starting this Friday, the Hong Kong Gov thinks they can stop something that no other country has been able to stop with a huge fine and jail time.
The new law covers all information transmitted via electronic media, including fax, email, mobile phone SMS and pre-recorded voice message. Violators of the law will be fined HK$1 million and face up to five years’ imprisonment.
We’re all for stopping faxes and those annoying pre-recorded messages that hit your mobile when you are in the middle of an important meeting. As Hong Kong was the first to prosecute the first Internet movie file sharing case, I’m sure that some poor guy now is being targeted to be the first “example.”
Wednesday. 30 May. 2007. 11:49 am
A 30-40% off private sale
Dmop is having a private sale from now till Friday (June 1st). Y3 and Moussy products are 30% off everything else is 40% off at all Dmop stores in Hong Kong.
This is a private sale so you will need to join the Butterboom VIP list to get the secret code to get these discounts.
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