... renowned fashion designer Vivienne Westwood once said: “Buy less, choose well, make it last.” Buy smart, consumers. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Mar. 8. Translation by M ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-12
... ghai Tang fashion chain, once noted that the building is of such hideous proportions that the only solution is to have it blown up and rebuilt. – Contact us at [email protected] CG ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-10
... to pursue fashion and design, a field she has been fascinated with since an early age. When she was fifteen, she moved from Nepal to India to study fashion design. Once she completed her studies, her ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-08
A video footage of flocks of migratory birds flying over Tuen Mun last week has gone viral on social media. In the 30-second clip, thousands of migratory birds were seen flying in an orderly fashion t ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
... s rivals' fashion brands to fill empty spaces, Reuters reports. In a shift in strategy aimed at making the space profitable and avoiding store closures, retailers such as Tesco have also started exp ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-07
All but chump change has been recovered from a HK$28 million (US$3.6 million) ransom for a Hong Kong fashion retail heiress who was kidnapped last year and later released unharmed. Police dug up HK$6. ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-04
Animal rights groups staged a protest against cruelty to animals on Sunday, the last day of the Hong Kong International Fur & Fashion Fair at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Headli ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-29
... d several fashion retailers sought to hire him as their image representative. He never profited from his instant fame, however. He returned to his family whom he left 10 years ago. Despite his newfoun ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-25
... bit about fashion and how to cope with tighter competition. People familiar with his media strategy say Lai is retreating from the print media because he believes the industry only has a few years lef ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
... ng is his fashion sense; I love his snazzy spectacles and impeccably cut suits, which are daringly flamboyant by the standards of the conservative world of the Bar. However, no amount of sartorial fla ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
In the 2015 Hollywood movie The Intern, a 70-year old widower, Ben Whittaker (played by Robert De Niro), secures an internship with a fast-growing Internet fashion startup and soon manages to impress ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-20
... Hong Kong fashion e-tailer mydress.com for nearly HK$40 million in October. It ended up paying HK$3 million in December as a termination fee for the deal, which was overtaken by the sale of the group' ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
... ghai Tang fashion chain and the grandson of Tang Shiu-kin, one of Hong Kong's greatest philanthropists, told the attendees the government led by Leung has brought governance of the city to a shameful ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-19
... what’s in fashion and they are better at generating new ideas, Mak said. That’s why older and younger workers can be a perfect combination. -- Contact us at [email protected] FL ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-17
... ka, 21, a fashion model from Poland, walking with a friend through New York's Times Square. "It's how it should look like." Theater shows reopened on Broadway after the blizzard forced them to go dark ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-25
A Hong Kong modeling agency has been accused of defaulting on payments to its fashion models, with the company's boss said to be evading the aggrieved workers. At least 20 models who worked for HKGene ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-21
Mogujie.com, a fashion-focused Chinese e-commerce services firm, is taking over Beijing-based rival Meilishuo via a stock-swap deal, according to the Wall Street Journal. Mogujie will take control of ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-11
... accurate fashion will be punished based on the severity of violations. “From the evidence we have, there are still situations where people didn’t accurately report, or deliberately hid, their part-ti ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-04
... made it a fashion icon, it sold 430,000 pairs in 1995 and two million pairs in 1996. Recall the process that message software such as ICQ became popular. It was very likely adopted by the most outgoin ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-31
... ng out of fashion? Probably not next year, or until bitcoin becomes legal tender. In the meantime, let's give the coin phone a hearty send-off: Thanks for the memories! -- Contact us at english@hkej ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
