He’s baaack! Celebrated Japanese fashion designer Jun Takahashi will be in Hong Kong for the opening of a photography exhibition that also highlights the Spring Summer 09 Undercover collection.

What’s a Grace?

The last event Jun Takahashi presided over in Hong Kong featured a live puppet performance. You can read about that event here. It turns out that the creatures have a name and their story has evolved considerably. (more…)

Agnes B. La Loggia within the IFC shopping center

European and American luxury brands once viewed shopping malls as the opposite end of the spectrum. Malls were derided as down-market, lacking in ambiance, sterile, suburban, and without unique value.

But in order to reach their target customer most efficiently, they have had to compromise. Particularly in Asia, there are occasionally differences between the label’s vision of luxury and the shopping patterns of consumers.

One crucial area where this rift surfaces is in choosing a location for a flagship store. (more…)

The opening of Consequences, a five artist show is taking place Thursday, April 23rd at The Economist Gallery inside the Fringe Club, just above Lan Kwai Fong.

The five woman show features new work by a diverse group of artist / designers. The theme of the show is “raunchy tales and wild concoctions” relating to a girls’ night out.

The exhibition features Sum-Sum Tse, Kate Barnett, Danielle Huthart, Emily Eldridge and Kim Van Gennip. (What, did you have to have a weird last name to join the show?)

Consequences art exhibition
Opening night, Thursday, April 23rd, 7pm
The Fringe Club
2 Lower Albert Road
Central, Hong Kong

The exhibition runs from April 23rd until May 11th.
Opening hours are Monday to Saturday, twelve noon until 10pm.

Members of Japan’s top B-Boy group, Found Nation Crew will be performing at Dragon-i on Saturday night. These guys are no joke!

Check out the second half of this video which shows them in action.

Crew members Shuvan, 2Goo, Afrock, and Wing Zero will be busting their moves for the audience on Saturday. From the look of the video, these guys specialize in doing complex combinations of tough break dance moves. They’ve honed their skills by competing in international B-Boy battles.

Found Nation Crew
Saturday, April 18th
Dragon-i
Upper ground floor, 60 Wyndham Street
Central, Hong Kong

$300 HKD cover charge

Annie Lennox, the powerful voice behind the Eurythmics dance floor classic “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This,” will be playing a special unplugged set at the MO Bar on April 28th. The occasion is a fund-raiser for the SING campaign which is a charity she founded in 1997 to help HIV/AIDS infected women and children in South Africa.

MO Bar is small, cozy lounge on the ground floor of the newish Landmark Mandarin Oriental attached to the Landmark shopping center in Central. A minimum donation of $2000 HKD is required to receive an invitation to the event. All proceeds will be donated to the SING charity.

For more information about donations and ticketing, you may contact Elsie Leung from the Mandarin Oriental between 11pm and 5pm. Her email address is eleung@mohg.com or you may call 2132-0123.

On the night of the 28th, doors open at 7pm and close sharply at 8pm. No one will be admitted after the concert has begun.

Love at first bite! The signature Sift chocolate cake.

Sift, my favorite dessert bar in Hong Kong, just opened a new branch in Wanchai. Located on Queens Road East between Pacific Place Three and the Hopewell Centre, the new location focuses on take-away treats, offering a wide variety of delicacies.

Stepping into the shop and gazing at the scrumptious selections, the display was almost too much to handle! Though not hungry, I definitely wasn’t leaving empty handed! (more…)

Last week I attended the Oasis concert at Asia World Expo. For those who have never visited, it’s just past the airport. Asia World Expo is one of the few venues in Hong Kong that can support a big live show. The place seems to be the only international-level concert hall in use recently.

Check out photos from the night and learn about one potential snag that could spoil your fun! (more…)

Sunday morning I woke up painfully early and took the KCR train out to University station in the New Territories. My destination was the Science and Technology Park in Shatin, more specifically, an auditorium called the “time-capsule” (pictured above.)

What could possibly get me out of bed at 7:30 am on a Sunday morning (a time I frequently go to sleep!)? (more…)

It’s difficult to overstate the importance of Tsui Hark’s Film Workshop to Hong Kong cinema in the mid 80’s thru 90’s. The company epitomized the magic and versatility of Hong Kong filmmaking. A list of their productions reads like a list of the best Hong Kong movies of all time.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Film Workshop, (a company formed by director Tsui Hark and his wife, the producer Nansun Shi,) the Hong Kong International Film Festival is curating a special exhibition at the Agnes B. gallery in Wanchai.

What’s inside? (more…)

Get ready to be transported back to a time of smart drinks and smoke machines! Friday’s installment of the monthly Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy party features two d.j.s with new mixes out that are heavily influenced by the early 90’s rave sound.

DJ P.O.L. Style, based in Tokyo, and DJ Drafus Chow, a relocated New Yorker in Hong Kong, are headlining Friday’s event.

Not familiar with D.J. Drafus? Perhaps you know him by one of his many d.j. pseudonyms! (more…)