Friday night saw the opening of WOAW!, a very impressive pop-up store for fashionable eyewear, curated by Kevin Poon of CLOT. The shop is stocked with hard-to-find brands and is located on ‘Food Street’ in Causeway Bay’s Fashion Walk.

Fashion-conscious Hong Kong is obsessed with accessories that illustrate personal style, and perhaps nothing is more conspicuous than eyewear! (more…)

Few in the crowd that packed Hong Kong’s Four Seasons ballroom on Friday night were familiar with American fashion designer Tory Burch.

Opening a store in Central’s IFC shopping mall in December 2010, the brand is still establishing itself in the city, its first foothold in Asia. As is the case with most brands looking for expansion in flat economies, all roads point to China. (more…)

Opening not one, but two splashy flagship stores recently, Hong Kong’s I.T Ltd. is making its case for top fashion retailer in greater China. (more…)

As Opening Ceremony, the innovative fashion retailer (and brand,) made its debut in the glitzy halls of Lane Crawford, few guests realized that the New York powerhouse actually owes part of its success to destinations on Kowloon-side. (more…)

Arriving at the ‘Create & Inspire’ event at Lane Crawford earlier this month, I felt like I had just stepped into a Jean-Philippe Delhomme painting.

Walking inside I was surrounded by a smartly dressed assortment of fashion insiders, movie stars, artists, celebrities, scenesters, creatives, posers and even a few suits.

My initial reaction – where am I? (more…)

Martine Sitbon, a still life

Just in time for fashion week, French designer Martine Sitbon slipped into town to host a viewing of her private line, Rue du Mail, at the Liger boutique in Causeway Bay. (more…)

Lane Crawford has much to celebrate. Ten years ago they were an aging department store that your mother might visit to purchase bed sheets. Today they are a destination, the kind of place you can get lost in admiring cutting-edge fashion, accessories and home furnishings.

Under the direction and vision of young-blood Jennifer Woo, the name Lane Crawford now means something in fashion corridors from Beijing to New York. From their origins as a humble biscuit maker in 1850, to their position as an international fashion power-house, Lane Crawford’s miraculous transformation is one of Hong Kong’s biggest turnarounds of the decade. (more…)

Japanese brands Moussy and SLY packed the SML restaurant in Causeway Bay on Wednesday night for a fashion show titled “Dream Travel.” Check out photos from the show and a video of the finale! (more…)

Top models, Elli-Rose and Chikako Watanabe, well known to fans of the influential Japanese magazine ViVi, headlined a fashion show in Tsim Sha Tsui on Friday, October 9th. The show was organized by prominent Hong Kong retailer i.t and showcased mostly Japanese labels.

In addition to the ViVi models from Japan, local favorites such as Cara G. and Jessica C., also participated. Check out the video! (more…)

Phillip Lim is in the middle of the video at the pause…

Celebrated fashion designer Phillip Lim made an appearance at Lane Crawford on October 7th, to host a special preview for a project called 4X3.1.

The project, which is a collaboration between Phillip Lim’s 3.1 brand and Hong Kong’s Lane Crawford, is comprised of four short films shot by four “new generation creative talents.”

The partnership with Lim is consistent with Lane Crawford’s strategy of building an alliance with every emerging star in contemporary fashion. (more…)