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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Monday. 31 December. 2007. 9:36 am
Butterboom goes back to the future.
This is it! The last day of 2007.
This is our last look at the last few months of postings at Butterboom.com, that we thought were milestones in 2007.
Have a read and if you want to see more, just use the “Melted Butter” pull down menu on the right column to read posts categorized week-by-week.
See you with new Butter in 2008!
Monday. 31 December. 2007. 9:30 am
Batman tears up the city, and causes chaos like The Joker.
Originally Published on Butterboom.com: NOVEMBER 12, 2007
We attended last Friday morning’s The Dark Knight press conference at The Grand Hyatt, attended by Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, director Christopher Nolan and producers Charles Roven and Kevin de la Noy. You didn’t miss much! It was basically a “Thank You” to Hong Kong for supporting them during their 5-day shoot. But notable quotes from their open Q&A:
- Morgan Freeman is staying on a high-floor at the Four Seasons facing the harbour.
- Chris Nolan was in Hong Kong earlier this year writing the screenplay for this Batman sequel, and had been here at the beginning of his career at the film festival.
- Nolan also debunked the rumour that the reason they cut a scene of Batman jumping into the harbvour because of its pollution was wrong, they changed the script and not because of the pollution, and that Nolan has no problem with throwing his star into the harbour, polluted or not!
- Bale let it be known, that he was in fact going to jump off the IFC that afternoon.
No questions about the film story, and why Batman is in Hong Kong, were allowed to be asked. But it does seem certain that Hong Kong is Hong Kong in the movie and not a stand-in for Chinatown in Gotham City, or some other story device, as the filmmakers made sure to point out that this was the FIRST time Batman would appear out of Gotham City in a movie. Mostly in part to show the expansive world that the movie Batman lives in (as he does in the comic books.)
But, hey, why take our word for it – watch the whole video here.
Ok the rest of the hoopla has happened over the weekend and The Standard reported more on what happend in Centeral on Friday:
Tempers were frayed when the shooting of the latest Batman movie was interrupted by crowds of fans trying to get a closer glimpse of the caped crusader as police and other security personnel battled with the lunch-hour traffic around Hong Kong’s oldest wet market.
And of course in this age of digital camera’s with built in YouTube encoding, here are a selection of videos shot by passerby’s in Central during the filming as well as video captures of the news reports from TVB and ATV, view all of them after the jump.
The Dark Knight opens worldwide on July 18, 2008.
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Monday. 31 December. 2007. 9:25 am
Goods of Desire T-Shirts get the smackdown from the cops.
Originally Published on Butterboom.com: NOVEMBER 2, 2007
Yay! Our first super-sensational headline! G.O.D. the furniture and clothing retailer that makes Ikea look like, well, Ikea – has just been busted for selling Triad-themed T-shirts. This is the most awesome fashion news we’ve heard in a long time:
A bid to turn a Hong Kong-made and designed T-shirt into a fashion icon for local youths has run foul of the law with the arrest of 18 people from a local chain store yesterday.Police said the design on the T-shirts marketed by Goods of Desire – or G.O.D. as the store is popularly known – was linked to a triad society and that those who purchased them could also be arrested.
Possessing triad products is a violation of the law and people wearing a shirt with such logos will be arrested, Organized Crime Triad Bureau Acting Superintendent Cheng Fuk-chuen warned.
Police confiscated 88 T-shirts and more than 500 postcards printed with a “14K” logo, “? x K”- with the numbers written in Chinese characters – from the store’s five offices and warehouse located in Central, Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui and Yuen Long. They arrested nine men and nine women, including salespersons and designers, aged between 21 and 51.
Of course now we all want one. Doesn’t get much more hip than wearing designer triad labels. Well, this will keep everyone talking for months to come. If you are looking for us this weekend, we’ll be in Mong Kok looking for the knock-offs. Watch out hip-hop, we got our own playahs now.
Monday. 31 December. 2007. 9:20 am
Believe the hype of Kowloon’s newest mall sensation.
Originally Published on Butterboom.com: OCTOBER 15, 2007
We visited Elements this weekend and we’ll say its pretty impressive and will definitely give The Landmark, IFC Mall AND Pacific Place a run for its money!
Elements, a new 1 million-square-foot shopping mall, has opened in Kowloon West here as part of a $10 billion redevelopment of the area by the Mass Transit Railway Corp. An office tower, two new hotels (a W Hotel and a Ritz-Carlton) and extensive transportation services are also part of the venture.
All your luxury brands are there, dozens of interesting restaurants and a hot cupcake shop called Petits by Deschamps which you should look out for and get to early because the cupcakes at HK$21 a pop go fast. Metro, a mega bookstore from the Philippines has its first Hong Kong branch there and its awesome. While you will find HMV, Fortress and Broadway you will not find Bossini or Giordano anywhere and that is good. Three Sixty is the supermarket. But the ice rink kind of slaps the “family” feel back in, and leaves us cold. But the kids skating here are definitely wearing Dior and not Nike.
Fancy double-decker Tiffany and Co., big spacious Zara, Prada and Pringle of Scotland coming soon. Even though we went on a Sunday and it was packed with local tourists checking out the site and not really shopping, it still was a breeze to get around and it seems not all of the Hong Kong Island shoppers either know about it or are bothering to “trek” over one more MTR station. But we like what we see and think that its close enough to Central that people will spill over there eventually, especially after the official launch happening on Oct. 18th.
And it must be cool if it has its own Wikipedia page already!!!
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