Airport pickup

I am so happy I can access my blog from Beijing! I flew in on Sunday, with quite an exhausted brain. What kept me going was finding a really nice bag at the HK airport. It's a red, light, soft leather bag from Longchamp. I never bought a nice bag within 1 minute, and I am really thrilled about how modest it looks.

HK art festival, Tarts

The best of Hong Kong made into an art piece by Chi Mi Luing. Look at the brim of the baking pan. These two pieces were actually my favorite in the show, and made me buy egg tarts on the way home.

HK art festival, recycled lamps

Tim Gunn may call some of these student work at DETOUR 2011. But I liked the lamps made out of garbage, and some of them looked expensive, particularly the silver dish washing sponge that was used in the first piece here.

I also wanted this chair although it exudes uncomfort. It looks like either it will stick into your butt, or will shatter into small pieces once you sit on it.

HK art festival, DETOUR 2011

There's a HK art event going on from November 25-December 11 at Aberdeen Street / Hollywood Road. It's a rare moment to see HK's artistic crowd gather, and I was really happy to see lots of art students from this city that I never easily see (where are they hiding!).

There were 40 or 50 different rooms, each with different installations. The first photo is the first that you see when you enter. It's called the Weaving Forest, done by a Shanghainese design studio. Visitors were weaving the wooden dears as they like, to create a "forest."



I believe the general theme of this event was recycling and making use of garbage. The top of the taxi, apparently is a product of 170 years of technology (!) from a small town in China, and it is hard to find usage after they finish their life on top of a taxi. But I personally think there has to be better usage than being turned into a lamp?



My favorite were these old post boxes. But then I realized they were not part of the show but just adding color. This event is held at an abandoned police building, and they have everything left behind, which is very lovely.

Eerie David Lyle

America's good old days (60s-70s) mixed in with more modern (90s) phenomena... makes everyone in the picture look like aliens! They are all done in oil. The titles are very cute.


"Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold"
"Playdate"
"They Say There's A Gold Digger In The Family"
"Opening Night"
"This Ends Here"

The last piece must be the most well known work by him.

Photo credit: David Lyle

McQueen's really alien shoes

This is the famous McQueen shoes that made women go head over heels to get them. It's from the spring 2010 collection and is called the Alien shoes. No doubt. And completely copyright protected on the making of them!

I was generally looking for boots and came across these. They look more beautiful, because they look so dangerous (to women's body) therefore alluring... But it's probably not right for my trip next week to China.

Photo credit: New York Fashion