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Velvet Slippers

One doesn’t see them much in Beijing, but Ni Ya, Style Director for Men’s Leon, always sports something dapper. Here he is at the party at Lane Crawford for Phillip Lim.

在北京很少见到这样的平绒鞋，但男人风尚形象总监倪亚总是大阪得很有品味。他参与了连卡佛给纽约设计师Phillip Lim的派对。

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Reindeer Babes at V*tamin

Ready for the upcoming season, Nancy Lou will be working at the second Fragrance Library, which is going to be opening in Sanlitun North Village (there is already one in the south). This is an American novelty perfume brand with scents such as dirt, tootsie roll, and tomato paste.

Here is Wing, also wearing the same reindeer print from Japanese brand Mercibeaucoup. They were at the V*tamin fashion show which showed off the wares of over 40 retailers, including Liu Jo, Eldi, and others with shops in Sanlitun Village. This giant mall development occupying much of Sanlitun is the most fashionable shopping center in Beijing and a key promenade for stylish youth.

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Acceptable in the ’70s

And today…Okay, viewers must be tiring of photos from the Modern Sky festival, but I had such a wealth of them sitting on my computer. On a normal day on the streets of Beijing, I rarely see anyone to photograph.

To me, it seems like a perfect outfit for a music festival. I could imagine this exact look some time in the early 1970s.

我知道我放了太多摩登天空音乐节的图片，但我差点忘了这张跟我想象中的七十年代去音乐节穿法差不多的。

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Getting Bigger in Japan?

Just one percent of my visitors were from Japan over the last year. Obviously, there is a language issue, but I would expect a country so interested in personal style to take more of an interest in how its neighbors dress (and to what extent they hipsters in Shibuya and Harajuku).

Fortunately, Chiemi Isozaki from Japanese online publication Hitspaper just interviewed me (click here for the piece in Japanese) . Select “more” for the Engish.

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Marc Jacobs’ Orientalism

The obsession of Western designers and just about everyone else with “Old Shanghai” will not end. Whether a fashion collection or a drink specials night at a club, the grand dame of the orient attracts with her gaudiness and perceived decadence. In the 1930s, this least Chinese of Chinese cities possessed, in our modern minds, elements of glamour, eclecticism, and exoticism that other historic periods as well as the present never seem to match. For Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs designed a new Shanghai-inspired collection now being panned by fashion critics as reeking of orientalism. More critique from the Shanghaiist and pictures from the NYT. Despite the tacky aura of the collection, a few pieces look marketable, but I fear that many of the looks could be achieved after an afternoon excavating at the Xiushui market, here in Beijing. Of course you could save the stress of haggling by going directly to the LV boutique not ten minutes away.

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A Mix of Sentiments

Young novelist Zhou Yuanyuan enjoys the last moments of daylight at the Modern Sky Festival. Others were not feeling the pure joy…

年青作家周源远笑得很真实在摩登天空音乐节。 他的代表作叫《我就乐意这样寂寞了》。