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.
Wow! We saw this exhibition the other day at Times Square in Causeway Bay and applaud the management for going such an avant garde artist to display in light of the Olympic games – we were really expecting a bunch of lame horse art, but kudos to the TS people to exhibit the New Disco-bolus, a giant rusted Mao-jacket and a huge red dinosaur in a cage – and that’s just in the piazza. The exhibition is on until August 19th.
And if you act fast, you can take a piece of this art home with you in the form of these cool limited edition “New Disco-bolus” graphic T-shirts! To get one all you have to do is donate HK$40 or above to the Community Chest, you can get one T-shirt for free. First come first served, available while stock lasts.
This international group of women, looking good all over the world.
Vanity Fair magazine just released their International Best Dressed list and its not all celebrities (that may or may not actually dress themselves). In the image above you see actress Tilda Swinton and Sarah Jessica Parker who made the list, but also you’ll find Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, Barack Obama’s wife Michelle as well as Prince William’s girlfriend Kate Middleton (pictured above) making the list as well.
Click here to see a slideshow of the winners and if you are interested you can also cast your vote in their Reader’s Poll. Hey, we should do something like that too, eh?
Rich people need their LV, no matter what kind of market we’re in.
It’s interesting to see that the luxury brand market isn’t all that touched by the global economy slowdown, oil prices, mortgage problems, the pollution from China. LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA group announced an actual increase in sales in their interim reports, and its rising in part thanks to us in Hong Kong and in China:
Net income climbed 7 percent to 891 million euros ($1.4 billion) from 834 million euros a year earlier, the Paris-based company said today. That surpassed the 857 million-euro median estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Chairman Bernard Arnault confirmed the company’s forecast for a “tangible increase in results this year” and said he would increase prices further in the U.S. and Japan.
Revenue is rising between 20 percent and 30 percent in Asia outside Japan, according to Armando Branchini of Milan-based consultancy Interbrand, making LVMH less vulnerable to slowing U.S. and European economies and gains by the euro. Bags co- designed for Louis Vuitton, LVMH’s top-earning brand, by designer Marc Jacobs and U.S. artist Richard Price fueled demand.
So, we guess even with our markets down this week, it still hasn’t and probably won’t affect our shopping habits. Read more of the story from Bloomberg here.
First duet for Bond film will find “Another Way to Die” in November.
Jack White of the White Stripes and Alicia Keys have just recorded the theme song for the 22nd James Bond movie hitting Hong Kong in November. The film is called “Quantum of Solace,” but we guess that would make for a lousy chorus, so they opted for the more Bond-ian sounding “Another Way to Die!”
It was down to Amy Winehouse, Duffy and Leona Lewis – who the last two would have been good seeing they are UK based, which we kind of thought was the prerequisite in the old days, but then again a Top 40 hit always works wonders for the films box office visibility, so there you go.
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