You can always count on Vivienne Westwood to present a collection full of life and humour, and Wednesday’s show was just the panacea for the tedium of the autumn collections. All the Westwood signatures were present on the catwalk: bold prints, exaggerated tailoring, punk and pirate elements, although Dame Vivienne herself didn’t grace the HKCEC. [...]

Yesterday marked the opening of the Hong Kong Tennis Classic 2010 and we were there to watch Chinese player Zheng Jie, captain for the Asia-Pacific team, and tennis goddess Maria Sharapova, captain for the Russia team, for their individual practices up to their first match that evening. Sharapova won, but it was a close match [...]

Coco Chanel, so it’s said, has always wanted to travel to Shanghai but it remained the trip she never made. Hence it was left to Karl Lagerfeld, the house’s current designer, to make the trip for her. Coinciding with the opening of the Chanel’s Shanghai flagship store in the Peninsula hotel, “Kaiser Karl” decided to [...]