If there’s one city in the world that doesn’t need help luring shoppers into stores it’s probably Hong Kong! Fashion’s Night Out was conceived by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour in 2009 to help inject some life into the faltering fashion retail scene. The annual event has been strongly embraced and widely adopted both in the [...]
Was it the lure of fashion darling Olivier Theyskens or something else that packed Lane Crawford, Canton Road last Wednesday night? Though the store went against conventional wisdom by holding the reception on Kowloon-side, (during the height of rush hour!) the entire space was buzzing with Hong Kong’s most sought after names.
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 [...]
A trip to Lane Crawford used to mean simply walking through as a shortcut between the two sides of Pacific Place shopping mall. The aging department store stood out as direction-less and a poor use of prime retail space. In a dramatic turnaround, Lane Crawford has been transformed into one of the top players in [...]
