Month: September 2011

Launching high end men’s wear in HK and Singapore

Posted on by Jason Li

The Financial Times has a fun little round up of emerging high end men’s wear companies in Hong Kong and Singapore. Rather than summarizing the article (which mainly states that these firms are meeting a growing demand and trying to put their respective cities on the map), I’ve rounded up a representative sample of images from each company below.

Enjoy!…

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Rising star classical musician chooses Hong Kong over China, alludes to corruption-fueled practices

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From the WSJ by Nicholas Frisch:

Mr. Sheng’s 2001 MacArthur “genius” grant propelled him into an elite circle of globally famous Chinese composers. His peers include Tan Dun, an Oscar-winner for the “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” soundtrack, also with a premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera to his name; Chen Qigang, a student of the late French composer Olivier…

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