Escada’s Autumn 08 Collection

It ain’t over till it’s over – more Luxury Week photos.

And you thought the Mastercard Luxury Week was over.

Escada is a German fashion luxury brand known for their elegant and feminine clothes. Remember their Spring/Summer ad campaign featuring Christy Turlington? We love the emerald green coat, bold red cape and the beautiful floaty gowns.

Who wears Escada? Celebrities like Naomi Watts, Catherine Zeta Jones, Paris Hilton, Andie McDowell, Celine Dion and Zhang Zi Yi. Did you know that Jennifer Lopez chose to wear Escada for her wedding dress? Of course you do. Check out the awesome slideshow below of the collection as well as the Hong Kong celebs that were out to support the recent Escada show at The Four Seasons hotel:

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Luxury Week 2008: That’s A Wrap

14 fashion shows, 14 brands in 5 days = smashing success.

The Mastercard Luxury Week Hong Kong 2008 extravaganza ended last Saturday and now they’ve done a final tally, it seems that it was a smashing success with over 6000 VIP’s attending the 5 day event including celebrities like reigning Miss World Miss China: Zhang Zilin, Yvette Yuen, Lelia Chow, DoDo Cheng, Renia Chau and Carl Ng.

If for some reason you missed a single piece of our coverage you can catch up here. For the amazing full tally that includes tons of Godiva ice cream and Tiffany jewellery continue reading.

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Luxury Week 2008 Round-Up

Butterboom coverage of Luxury Week: Priceless!

Whew! We’re spent! It was a whirlwind of fashion shows last week, thanks to all of you who followed on a daily basis – for the rest of you, here is a quick link jumpad to all the photos from last week’s Mastercard Luxury Week Hong Kong 2008.

Vera Wang
Kenzo
Oscar de la Renta
Marc Jacobs
La Perla
Diane Von Furstenberg
Jean Paul Gaultier
Sneak Preview
Mastercard Shopping Privileges

But wait there’s more: we have a bag of goodies that we picked up from each show, and we’ve put it altogether for ONE lucky Butterboom reader.

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Luxury Week Day 5: Vera Wang

Vera Wang closes the show with an edgy and romantic finale.

This is it! Our final piece of coverage of the 2008 Mastercard Luxury Week in Hong Kong and this final new show brought out an exciting collection from designer Vera Wang.

Vera Wang’s fall collection is inspired by modernist painter Kees van Dongen, late 18th century flamboyant Dutch painter who is famous for his use of flashy, bright colours to paint his favourite subject matter – sailors and prostitutes.

A gorgeous collection featuring lots of jewel toned colours in satin, organza and chiffon. It was edgy and romantic at the same time. Dresses were long, loose fitting with interesting layers, florets, poufs and beautiful accessorized metal collars and embellishments. The effects is an elegant elongated silhouette that exudes understate luxury.

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Luxury Week Day 5: Kenzo

Kenzo brings new shapes to Hong Kong for Fall.

We start the final day of the Mastercard Luxury Week Hong Kong 2008 with Kenzo. For his fall collection, designer Antonio Marras takes inspiration from the Japanese Wabi-sabi aesthetics where elaborate reinterpretation of volumes and shapes combined with a range of different materials resulted in new beautiful shapes. Drawing from the shape of the Japanese “Yukata” (a casual summer kimono dressing gown), were dramatic beautifully shaped loose fitted short dresses in wool jacquard and duchess satin.

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