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Kelly helps to closes the Olympics with Ralph Lauren.
Hong Kong’s own leading singer and actress (and soon to be blushing bride) Kelly Chen (陳慧琳) wore a red and black georgette buffalo check gown from the Fall 2008 Ralph Lauren Collection to the 2008 Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony this past Sunday. Larger image below.
Aigner’s winning fall bag collection.
Aigner celebrates Germany winning three gold medals at the Olympics Equestrian events in Hong Kong, with an equally winning Autumn/Winter 2008/09 collection.
Aigner’s autumn/winter collection feature 3 colour tones: First the soft, subtle colours of Off-White, Pearl and Stone and the warm tones of natural leathers – Beige, Cognac, Whisky and powerful Vermeille Red – bring Aigner’s equestrian heritage to life, and finally winter colours such as Black, Grey, Silver and Charcoal, with accents in brilliant Petrol gives it the added ‘wow’ factor to this collection.
Enjoy savings on Aigner’s equestrian-inspired collection till the end of August.
Aigner is getting into the spirit of the Olympic Equestrian events in Hong Kong. Visit any of their outlets in Hong Kong from now till 31 August and enjoy up to 40% off on all accessories.
Shops are located at Elements and the counters at Seibu Kowloon and Sogo Causeway Bay.
Stylish equestrian accessories in time for the Olympics.
Aigner has been synonymous with equestrian elegance since its inception in Munich in 1965. This luxury German brand has tapped onto their equine-inspired identity to tie-in with the Olympics this year. Very appropriate for Hong Kong since we are hosting the equestrian side of the Olympics.
We like their cute shoehorse key chain featured here.
Yes, the Mainland gets one before Hong Kong.
Looks like Apple is also jumping at the Olympics promotional opportunities and opening their first China store in Beijing.
The Apple store is located in Sanlitun, formerly a quiet, leafy neighborhood adjacent to one of the city’s diplomatic quarters. In recent years, Sanlitun turned into a lively—and often rowdy—nightlife district known by locals as “Bar Street.” As part of preparations for the Olympics, Beijing authorities worked to spruce up the neighborhood, driving out the drug dealers that often approached foreigners on the street and knocking down apartment blocks to clear the way for a new shopping center.
Like other Apple stores, the Beijing store will give Chinese consumers a chance to try out Apple products or seek help from company representatives at the shop’s Genius Bar. The store will also host events aimed at bringing potential customers into the store.
Apple already has a Chinese-language store online, but this is a big coup for Apple in China - it must be because of those 400,000 iPhones that were found to be used on China Mobile. talk about using the grey market to test market your brand.
Ready or not, like it or not, here it comes.
Time sure flies by, it seemed like only last week the Torch Relay was happening, and now the official countdown clock tells us the Beijing 2008 Olympics is only 30 days away.
Butterboom has questions: Will the streets be rife with tourists? How come we haven’t seen any crazy Olympics stuff in the city and only at the Hong Kong Airport? Will there be more security in public spaces? Will tourists be ripped off on their shopping? We’ll be following how this event affects the Hong Kong shopping scene as we head towards what will probably be a more crazy time than the 1997 handover for the people of our fair city!
In the meantime, links are here:
The Official Beijing 2008 Site
The Hong Kong Tourism Board
Hong Kong International Airport
New 8-8-2008 limited edition sporty luxury.
A new sports-driven collection from Gucci will be launched this month that will celebrate the athletes in this year’s Olympics (oh, yes, expect many of those from now on!)
There are 8 items in total for this collection, the standout one being the I-Gucci watch as it’s Gucci’s first ever digital timepiece.
The other pieces which are all EXCLUSIVE to Hong Kong and China Gucci stores only, are the bicycle, Mah Jong set, a soft leather panda. the 2 pieces of luggage shown above, sports shoes for men and women and a necklace inspired by military tags in silver to remind you that you need to look stylish on the battlefield of luxury??!
