“Hong Kong has always evolved, and always will, and I think that’s its beauty,” says architect André Fu of his hometown. With a cornucopia of credits to his name—having designed some of Asia’s hottest new hotels including the Waldorf Astoria Osaka, Capella Taipei, and Upper House Hong Kong; restaurants like Duddell’s and Estro in Hong…
One of Asia’s largest philanthropic organisations, the Shaw Foundation, has pledged to continue supporting small charities in Hong Kong and urged the public to do the same, after making a generous donation to victims of last month’s catastrophic fire in Tai Po. The foundation made a HK$20 million (US$2.6 million) contribution to help victims of…
Earlier this October, StyleWeekOC held its 14th annual event — merging together the worlds of fashion and cinema, in partnership with Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) for the second year in a row. After the success of last year, the two held a five-day series to highlight the intersection of fashion, film and design. Guests…
Charlotte, and the culture at large, is in a “renaissance” of vintage fashion and a search for quality materials of years past, at least according to local stylist and entrepreneur Jaleak Gerlitzki. Gerlitzki is part of a blossoming fashion scene in the city: vintage reselling and personal styling. Saturdays are often populated by pop-up markets,…
Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion is home to some of the city’s most iconic businesses and shops. Every year on the first Saturday in July, the “Light Up Livernois” fashion, art and design festival takes over Livernois between Six and Eight Mile roads to highlight all the business and entertainment district has to offer. Alysyn Curd,…
Melanie Dunea has another genre-bending project. The award-winning photographer and Mood Studios founder, whose career has spanned portraiture, fashion and food photography is melding all of her previous subject matters into one. Called “Amuse-Bouche,” the volume features models dressed in various delicacies fabricated and styled as clothing. The book, limited to 500 copies — 250…
This year’s show featured the fashion collections of 35 of UC’s fashion design students from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP). There were over 150 fashion creations on the runway, many which told a personal story with a nod to a designer’s heritage, hometown, personal trauma or a background in activities or…