China Dolls April 26, 2012
2012_beijing_auto_show
Trans Sport Show 2012
SM Megatrade Hall, SM MegamallArnee Mory
Boochi Inuoe
Agatha Cristobal
- Indulgences no. 5 limited edition 24 carat gold Nike Dunks up for grabs
Indulgences No. 5; now that is name that makes you want to look twice, and designer Kenneth Courtney doesn't disappoint. So what exactly what is this all about? Well, these are custom-made 24k gold dipped Nike Dunk High sneakers, which is limited to just 5 units. Why should girls have all the glittering gold footwear all for themselves right?
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- Buben & Zorwerg One Perpetual Calender
Buben & Zorweg is a name that commands respect in horological world. The master and market a leader when it comes to the watch winder segment, the famed brand has now forayed into the world of timepieces. Yes, picking the Baselworld 2012 as the platform to mark the unveiling of their debut timepiece, Buben & Zorweg have stolen the hearts of watch collectors across the globe with their first offspring, The One Perpetual Calender. Renowned watchmaker Martin Braun modified the manufacture caliber at the heart of the Buben & Zorweg One exclusive for the company.
- Fairmont Singapore and Philips team up to offer the first Ambient Experience Concept Suite in Asia-Pacific
Not many would recall the plans between Philips and Fairmont Hotels to create magical suites with lighting experiences to indulge and pamper the guests. Well nearly four years since, the first Ambient Experience Concept Suite in Asia-Pacific has been unveiled by Fairmont Singapore. Developed by Philips, this concept suite aims to make the in-suite experience for the business traveler all the more amazing. In fact this concept suite was first showcased in London last year. The suite is part of Philips' "Hotel of the Future" initiative, and is a beautiful space with a variety of lighting fixtures, colors and effects that create an ambience to suit your many moods.
- Miss Sissi Lamp by Philippe Starck is made from sugar waste
The pressure of maintaining an ecological balance has gripped one and all, including high design lighting retailer Flos and biotech company Bio-on who have partnered together to reinvent an iconic plastic lamp in eco-friendly bio-plastic. The new Missi Sissi Lamp by Philippe Starck is apparently the world's first design object manufactured with polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a water-biodegradable biopolymer made from the waste of sugar beet and cane production. That is indeed an uncanny and unheard of substance that could ever come to be used for a lighting fixture! Miss Sissi was previously sold in injection-molded polycarbonate, a type of environmentally damaging plastic. Hence, it could be bit of a dilemma for the design industry to convert their existing famous furniture into something composed of PHA's.
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- Tushek Renovatio T500 and Forego T700 cars to take on the Lamborghini Aventador
Tushek Supercars, a car maker from Slovenia has got the world eyeing their latest creations- Renovatio T500 (already debuted at Top Marques Monaco Show) and the brand new Forego T700 that has a more powerful metabolism than its previous counterpart. The 444 hp Renovatio T500 has a 4.2-liter V8 engine that can hurl its 2,500lbs curb weight from 0-62mph in just 3.7 seconds. The 2,205 lbs (1,000kg) Forego T700 has a coinciding 700hp capacity, making it an obvious rival to the Lamborghini Aventador.
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- Customized jet-skis by sport teak decks and Fendi duvet cushions
Jet skis now turn into luxurious modes of water-sports with these new luxury toys from the stables of Superyacht Tenders and Toys and Venom Design. Modified just enough to suit a client's creature comfort-needs, these jet skis come with luxury seats and are being modified to match the look and theme of the yacht they will be used from, complete with custom paint jobs. Capable of touching speeds of up to 70mph, these overhauled Seadoo RXT 260 jet-skis come with teak decks and Fendi duvet cushion.
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- Audi A6 L e-tron plug-in hybrid concept sedan unveiled
The Beijing Motor Show saw the unveiling of the latest in German automotive technology, Audi's newest brainchild, the A6 L e-tron. Part of the electric and hybrid concept car line by Audi, the A6 L comes with plug-in hybrid insides, capable of being driven on electricity alone for a good 80km on a full charge. Sporting a 2.0 TFSI engine producing 155 kW (211 hp) and an electric motor generating 70 kW (95 hp), this one packs a bunch of luxuries too, including seat ventilation and massage functions, Bose surround sound system, deluxe air conditioner with air ionizer, and MMI navigation with a touch navigation system with the ability to recognize 29,000 Chinese characters included!
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- How China Can Build an International Brand
Last month, at the fourth annual Prestige Brands Forum at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, participants discussed the difficulties China faces in branding.
"We have nothing close to Sony or Apple or Mercedes," says Elliott Yuen, a former chief executive of the clothing brand Shanghai Tang. "We still don't have a decent international Chinese brand." Founded in Hong Kong in 1994 and boasting a following with its traditional designs, Shanghai Tang might be the closest thing the country currently has to a prestige clothing brand. The bigbest factor in its success has been its ability to demonstrate the value of Chinese culture in building a luxury brand.
"If Chinese companies are to go global, we must have Chinese elements and international elements," says Francis Chen, the founder of Franz Collection, a Taiwanese-based company that makes most of its upmarket porcelain in China and sells it through more than 6,000 stores worldwide. "In China, we can build very strong and powerful [brands]. A strong brand must have its roots in its culture. If Americans didn't drink Coca-Cola, would you? If Americans didn't watch Hollywood movies, would you?"
Step two: add craftsmanship, or so says Edward Lu, the president of Lezare International and Montblanc's former China managing director. "Do Chinese companies have the best materials, the best techniques? If they do, I believe in the future there will be many global brands with Chinese ingredients," he insists.
Michel Gutsatz, a program director at Euromed Management, a business school based in Marseille, and an adviser to The Scriptorium Company, a brand-strategy agency, phrases China's struggles another way: "Number one is different business cultures … The other is different creative cultures."
Gutsatz describes the European luxury brands' opinion of creative directors as godlike, for the many tasks they juggle daily. "They manage quality, they manage public relations, they manage relationships with VIP customers, overall brand consistency … They have a power over the brand that's very difficult to understand in Chinese culture," he says. "We have designers [in China], people that create, that draw, but they're like the people in the studio are in Europe, because we have different creative cultures."
The best way to overcome differences in creative culture, it seems, is through capital. Most analysts agree China has two options if it want to develop a national brand: buy international brands and transfer the management and creative cultures or hire European brand consultancies.
"You need to build in luxury brand competencies. That can only be done by buying expensive expertise. Everyone tells me how entrepreneurs don't like to buy expertise. But you need to buy it and pay for it. You must hire talent," says Gutsatz.
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One 1/8 blast from cloudshere on 48am from camera right against 3pm sun light. Wind was so intense that a higher key light on face from shoot through was not possible.
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She talks to me with her eyes....
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unreal composition
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