Photo : Suzy
She is an actress and she said her weibo name was “yellow desire” but it seems more like “yellow fantasy”. Of course the two concepts are similar, in both languages.
Black Summer
Working Class
Photo : Suzy
The migrant laborers should ditch their suits and start dressing like this.
Seeking Interns/Buyer
I am looking for interns for Stylites and LifeStyle Magazine and also for a new website carrying men’s essentials. For that project, I am also seeking a buyer. Please email me if you are interested.
Attending School
Photo & Text : Suzy
Joining Jam Bar as part of the new fleamarket mini-trend, School Bar in Wudaoying Hutong hosted their first event this past Saturday. I came a little late and the vendors had already started packing up but I was lucky to meet lovely Claire on their breezy upstairs terrace.
Stay Cool
Photo : Suzy
Here and I thought Jeffrey only drank champagne. It turns out that this is the second time that he tried water.
The suit is Shandong silk.
In the Garden
Photo: Suzy
This isn’t the usual sort of content I put on Stylites, but I thought it would be nice to give viewers an idea of just how nice a garden wedding in Beijing can be.
Green Wedding
Photo & Text : Suzy
This color is probably a bit safer than white for wedding guests. This lovely couple in an intensively green wrap dress and a midnight blue bespoke double breasted suit came in for George Wang’s wedding from Tokyo.
Prada Pretty
Photo and Text: Suzy
Dressing up for a summer wedding can be a difficult task, especially when in China the bride wears not only white but also red at the same event. This party guest at George Wang’s recent garden themed wedding made a perfectly elegant choice.
Outside DKNY
Just back from studying for three years in NYC, this blogger and Okay magazine editor was in Shin Kong Place to witness the unveiling of the DKNY Fall collection.
Rockabilly Terrace
Hutong Mix
Breathless in Beijing
Photo and words: Suzy
Maybe it’s the gamine haircut, the striped dress, or the smile, but she really reminds me of Jean Seberg in Breathless. The timeless and jaunty style of Godard’s first feature film comes to Jam Bar. Wang Xiaolv is also one of the two chatting hipstresses in this photo.
Vibrantly Multicultural
Taken a little while ago outside of Lane Crawford, what an exuberant but still ethereal kind of ensemble!
An Online Streetwear Bazaar
One of the best online resources for the streetwear fanatic, Berlin’s def-shop.com offers a huge range of hip-hop, skater and other urban styles at very reasonable prices made even more attractive by the ongoing summer sale. Beyond affordability, thoroughness is a hallmark of this site. Items are helpfully organized by styles – like “hip-hop” and “skater” and also fit.
They are available in just about every color one could possibly want. Especially novel are the Raw Blue Basic Skinny Fit Jeans in Green (above). These would go nicely with a slim cardigan and perhaps even, rolled up, with tasseled loafers. This is to say that there are many items from the skater/streetwear repertoire that could be incorporated into a more traditionalist look like my own.
Especially comprehensive is the shoe selection. From K1X gray wool boots (above) to the K-Swiss Hof III CVS VNZ Sneaker Classic in Blue/White (below).
Again, these are styles “street” enough to…well…be on def-shop.com, but still classic enough to grace the wardrobes of more mature males, who might be evolving into a more understated style.