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Numéro Fashion Cube

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Leading monthly publication Numéro offers an avant-garde view of the worlds of fashion, art and luxury. Featuring both today’s icons and tomorrow’s master talents, the magazine explores the convergence of contemporary culture, from fashion to architecture, via art, beauty, cinema, music and design. The Chinese edition of the magazine launched an event in Plaza 66, [...]

Digital luxury war between LV and Burberry in Beijing

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

The british fashion house Burberry and the French couture Louis Vuitton were dueling in a creative fight. It was already impressive to experience the new website fashionshow.louisvuitton.com, we again experienced a new storytelling writing of the Burberry fashion show in Beijing this April 13, created by its art-director Christopher Bailey. Beijing and last Burberry 1,000 [...]

Culture Chanel at Shanghai MoCA

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Stars and spokepersons opened the first exhibition of Chanel in Shanghai, at MoCA. Curated by Jean-Louis Froment, a well-known figure in the contemporary art and design worlds, the new exhibition highlights the creative dimensions of the House of Chanel throughout history. Culture Chanel is going back to the house roots and shows how it transformed [...]

Profile: Raphael le Masne de Chermont

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Shanghai Tang’s chief executive shares his wisdom on the Financial Times, delivering some interesting messages to the young entrepreneurs or school students. We read that Richemont put him in charge of one of its smaller investment, the Hong Kong-based Shanghai Tang. He progressively became the “mandarin de luxe” by transforming his key ideas into action, [...]

Louis Vuitton : A Passion for Creation

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Henry Tang, at the opening ceremony of “Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation” exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art said, “During my visit to Paris last year, we reached an agreement with LVMH to bring the “Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation” Exhibition to Hong Kong. I am [...]

Wuyong: Paris anti-luxury Haute Couture

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Make useless things into useful, statement of anti-fashion shown on the last day of Haute Couture week, Chinese designer MA Ke staged on again in the green gardens of Palais Royal with her paradoxical concepts.

Hermès: The Tale of Silk / 锦绣梦想

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Luxury maisons, Modern Art, Asia become the new area of luxury marketing. Chanel’s HK Mobile Art, LV’s japanese multicolor looking, and now Hermès scarves exposition in Beijing from March 25 to April 16 2008. Who else? Actually, “The Tale of Silk” Hermès’ Scarves Exhibition has just been launched at the Shanghai Art Museum last year in September. [...]

Mobile Art: Futuristic Art Exhibit of Chanel in HK / 流动艺术

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

An UFO landed on the roof of Star Ferry Car park nearby Hongkong bay, 27th Feb (till 5th April). It is in this futuristic, shiny, white, curved pavilion that Chanel launched its first stop of modern art exhibition called ‘Mobile Art’. The strange futuristic pavilion as itself an artwork is created by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. Made of [...]

Shanghai artist's Nike poo!

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Nike as a sportswear american brand has an incredible influence of life style in China, here goes a short message from Shanghaiist. “From a Shanghai-based artist Chen Hangfeng: I just love Nike, the shoes, the shirts, the hats. There is not a piece of clothing I own that doesn’t bear the Nike logo. One morning I realized that [...]

Cartier in Shanghai: Grand gala opening of their boutique

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Expecting to open as many as 10 jewelery boutiques in the Mainland by next year, Cartier is expanding fast in China, responding to the rise of the super-rich. LUXE.TV turns the Spotlight on Cartier‘s newest Shanghai boutique (Plaza 66, Bund 18), inviting you to attend the gala banquet opening. Music: Air/Moon Safari/Talisman