{"id":11604,"date":"2021-01-27T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/27\/fashion-walk-and-asian-gold-presents-kingston-culture-and-creativity-zone-the-orient\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T06:10:00","slug":"fashion-walk-and-asian-gold-presents-kingston-culture-and-creativity-zone-the-orient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/27\/fashion-walk-and-asian-gold-presents-kingston-culture-and-creativity-zone-the-orient\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Walk and Asian GOLD Presents: Kingston Culture and Creativity Zone \u2013 THE ORIENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               A Pop-up Hub of Artistry for Local Budding Designers, Street Artists, Fashion Brand Spearheading Novel Retail Concept                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 27 January 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Located at the heart of Hong Kong, Fashion&#13;<br \/>\nWalk has its fingers firmly on the pulse of fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and gastronomy.&#13;<br \/>\nEntering 2021, Fashion Walk proudly announces its partnership with avant-garde&#13;<br \/>\nlifestyle label Asian GOLD, transforming the Kingston area into the pop-up &#8220;Kingston&#13;<br \/>\nCulture and Creativity Zone &#8212; THE ORIENT&#8221;. Spanning an area of 20,000 square feet, THE ORIENT vows to bring&#13;<br \/>\ntogether original and exclusive fashion items as well as contemporary art&#13;<br \/>\npieces from all over Asia Pacific. In addition, a wide array of art initiatives&#13;<br \/>\nwill be undertaken on a regular basis: seminars, product launches, workshops,&#13;<br \/>\nweekend markets, art appreciation tours, fashion coaching &#8212; to name but a few.&#13;<br \/>\nCustomers are guaranteed a truly state-of-the-art shopping experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/120604\/Bella-Philip.jpg#image-120604\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">Fashion Walk proudly announces its partnership with avant-garde lifestyle label Asian GOLD, transforming the Kingston area into the pop-up &#8220;Kingston Culture and Creativity Zone &#8212; THE ORIENT&#8221;.\u00a0 Director &#8211; Leasing &amp; Management of Hang Lung Properties, Ms. Bella Chhoa (left) says, &#8220;My outfit and style today is the amazing work of The ORIENT. Previously, I never tried this style, and my outfit today is totally a pleasant surprise to me! It&#8217;s inspired me to explore and experiment with different styles &#8212; this is exactly the new shopping experience we want to bring to customers at Fashion Walk. Through this novel retail concept, not only do we hope to introduce brands that customers can identify with, but also for them to get inspired by the diversity and creativity we offer at THE ORIENT, so as to broaden their horizons and further enhance their discerning taste in fashion. Founder of Asian GOLD, Philip GOLD (right) comments that THE ORIENT is a point of departure in their endeavor to promote art and culture. Under Fashion Walk&#8217;s strategic guidance, he believes that practitioners will thrive.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><b><u>Ground-breaking retail concept for a state-of-the-art shopping&#13;<br \/>\nexperience<\/u><\/b><b><u\/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">In recent years,&#13;<br \/>\nonline and social media has facilitated the ideation of &#8220;You are what you buy&#8221;. Customers&#13;<br \/>\nnowadays look beyond product quality and seek out brands that identify with&#13;<br \/>\nthemselves in values and&#13;<br \/>\nbeliefs. Drawing on this ecological shift on spending, Fashion walk reaffirms&#13;<br \/>\nits commitment to art and fashion by transforming the Kingston area, in&#13;<br \/>\ncollaboration with like-minded Asian GOLD, into a breeding ground for art and&#13;<br \/>\ndesign talents: &#8220;Kingston Culture and Creativity Zone &#8212; THE ORIENT&#8221;. It serves&#13;<br \/>\nas a platform for local budding artists and designers to showcase their works&#13;<br \/>\nand illustrate their aesthetic at the heart of Causeway Bay, and in turn gain&#13;<br \/>\ncareer opportunities to further their pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Director &#8211; Leasing &amp;&#13;<br \/>\nManagement of Hang Lung Properties, Ms. Bella Chhoa remarks, &#8220;We&#8217;ve always been&#13;<br \/>\na strong advocate for local art and cultural development. Over the years, we&#13;<br \/>\nhave led many initiatives to introduce promising designers, talented street&#13;<br \/>\nartists and up-and-coming fashion labels to the public. The platform we have&#13;<br \/>\ncreated with Asian GOLD this time will convene lots of original brands from the&#13;<br \/>\nAsia-Pacific region. A myriad of diverse events will be organized in this&#13;<br \/>\none-of-a-kind shopping space where brands can tell their unique stories in a&#13;<br \/>\nmost personal way, where customers can also be fully immersed in a most unique&#13;<br \/>\nshopping experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Philip GOLD, founder of Asian GOLD, comments,&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Based on my dialogs and collaborations with artists and designers, I guarantee&#13;<br \/>\nthat the concept of THE ORIENT is a dream come true for every practitioner in&#13;<br \/>\nthe art and fashion design field. The platform enables them to showcase their&#13;<br \/>\nbrand philosophy, establishing a profound connection with customers. I am&#13;<br \/>\nthrilled to receive so many responses from designers who wish to get involved&#13;<br \/>\nin the project. To us, THE ORIENT is a point of departure in our endeavor to&#13;<br \/>\npromote art and culture. Under Fashion Walk&#8217;s strategic guidance, practitioners&#13;<br \/>\nwill no doubt thrive!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Spanning an area of 20,000 square feet, THE&#13;<br \/>\nORIENT convenes over 30 renowned designers, artists, brands and other&#13;<br \/>\npractitioners in the field, including: Philip GOLD, Simon Chim, Vincent Li,&#13;<br \/>\nPinky Sheung, Jeff Mui, Unique Yeung, Manual Oliveira, Fannie Mercury, and&#13;<br \/>\nSilver Alan &#8212; to name but a few.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Appendix:&#13;<br \/>\nDescription of Artists and Designers<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Philip GOLD<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In summer 2020, Philip GOLD&#13;<br \/>\npartnered with Hang Lung&#8217;s fashionista hotspot Fashion Walk to establish pop-up&#13;<br \/>\nstore &#8220;In the Name of Summer&#8221;, convening original and exclusive design and art&#13;<br \/>\npieces from around Asia. The store introduced the concept of eccentricity to&#13;<br \/>\nthe public, which became a great champion in branding and retail despite&#13;<br \/>\nadversities. Building on its success, the design guru launches &#8220;The ORIENT by&#13;<br \/>\nPhilip GOLD&#8221; in an effort to showcase oriental beauty in a most avant-garde&#13;<br \/>\nsetting under the theme of &#8220;Vintage, Contemporary, and New Designers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Simon Chim <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Originally a household item and interior designer, Simon Chim is a local&#13;<br \/>\nindependent designer who found international success in his own eyewear label&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;chimmm&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;, featuring Chinese artistry. In 2019, a Technology Invention Patent&#13;<br \/>\nfor Lenses was granted to his &#8220;Chimask&#8221; by the National Intellectual Property&#13;<br \/>\nAdministration, P.R. China. In 2018, Simon was the only eyewear designer from&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong who was invited to Silmo Paris 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary&#13;<br \/>\ncelebration with other 49 fellow international designers. In 2011, he was&#13;<br \/>\ninvited to design a series of eyewear for Zeiss lenses, where the &#8220;Man on the&#13;<br \/>\nMoon&#8221; series was awarded the Gran Design Etico&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Award 2012. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Vincent Li<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Vincent&#13;<br \/>\nLi, founder of eponymous fashion brand, was selected as the top 50 budding&#13;<br \/>\ndesigners in the world by the Not Just a Label campaign. Vincent is&#13;<br \/>\nparticularly adept at reflecting emotions and sentiments in his design. His&#13;<br \/>\nMIRRIAGANG series was displayed in the Hong Kong Design Week in Melbourne and&#13;<br \/>\nbecame the first project on aboriginal clothing sponsored by the Australian&#13;<br \/>\ngovernment. Vincent was also the only Chinese that was invited by the JURRASIC&#13;<br \/>\nWORLD in Sydney to design its 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary souvenirs. In&#13;<br \/>\naddition, he collaborates with the Hong Kong Ballet on the WEAREDANCE&#13;<br \/>\ninitiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Pinky Sheung<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Founder of Hong Kong jewelry brands Headragon&#13;<br \/>\nand Paso Doble, Pinky is Vice-chair for the Hong Kong Jewellery Designers&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\nAssociation and Senior Jewellery Designer. A recipient of the Design for Asia&#13;<br \/>\nAwards, she has designed jewelry for a multitude of celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Jeff Mui <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Local star fashion&#13;<br \/>\ndesigner Jeff Mui has been crafting stage costumes for numerous Asian celebrities&#13;<br \/>\nfor over 20 years, including Fan BingBing, Kelly Chen, Kay Tse, Hins Cheung,&#13;<br \/>\nCharmaine Fong, TWINS, Justin Lo, to name but a few. Jeff also runs his own&#13;<br \/>\nfashion brand, Jeff Dark Art, and is heavily involved in movie styling. Since&#13;<br \/>\n2006, he has hosted a number of fashion shows in Paris and other places in the&#13;<br \/>\nworld.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Unique Yeung <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Founder of online boutique UniStyLogy.com, Unique Yeung is a personal&#13;<br \/>\nstylist and hosted online lifestyle radio program &#8220;\u552f\u5c1a\u8a8c&#8221;. Her discerning fashion sense and unique style, coupled with her&#13;<br \/>\npassion for jewelry, has earned Unique wide recognition among from celebrities&#13;<br \/>\nin town, such as Christine Ng, Erica Yuen, Harriet Yeung, among many others.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Manual&#13;<br \/>\nOliveira <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>A Portuguese fashion curator, Manual brings some of the most well-known&#13;<br \/>\nfashion brands from Portugal to Hong Kong, for sale exclusively at THE ORIENT.&#13;<br \/>\nThey quickly caught the eyes of local celebrities, such as Christine Ng and&#13;<br \/>\nSisley Choi, to name but a few.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Fannie Mercury<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>A perfect blend of avant-garde and contemporary, OTT (Over The Top) is a&#13;<br \/>\nstreet fashion brand that believes firmly in being loyal to what you truly&#13;<br \/>\nlove. Its distinctive style has attracted various fashionistas and celebrities.&#13;<br \/>\nIn addition, designer Fannie Mercury is commissioned as an official designer&#13;<br \/>\nfor the Miss Asia pageant. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Silver Alan<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>With 13 years&#8217; experience in leather artistry, Silver Alan&#8217;s original&#13;<br \/>\nleather art pieces are found in galleries around the world, such as Italy,&#13;<br \/>\nJapan, and China. His works revolves mostly around a punk and futuristic world&#13;<br \/>\nview, gaining widespread popularity in Japan, with Moga Mogami being a top fan.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-founded&#13;<br \/>\nby Mr. Albert Chung and Ms. TK Chan, Silver Alan aims to promote works by&#13;<br \/>\nbudding artists and introduce them to international audiences at BLINK Gallery;<\/li>\n<li>Collaborated with Mini Cooper, LEE, HKJC, and Bow Tie Shop HK;<\/li>\n<li>Reinterpret,&#13;<br \/>\nreinvent, and reimagine designs by Alexander McQueen, introducing local&#13;<br \/>\ndesigner Sam Yeung, who specializes in Gothic designs.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/62630#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pop-up Hub of Artistry for Local Budding Designers, Street Artists, Fashion Brand Spearheading Novel Retail Concept HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 27 January 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Located at the heart of Hong Kong, Fashion&#13; Walk has its fingers firmly on the pulse of fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and gastronomy.&#13; Entering 2021, Fashion Walk proudly announces its partnership &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}