British Etiquette

Courtesy Tiffany

Courtesy of Tiffany

• "  The British rejoice in table manners, as they do accents, as a way of pigeonholing people socially"   >>  MORE
•  Invited by a royal to dine?   Be prepared!  >> MORE

• Appropriate attire please!
• Meal etiquette in business
• Manners count!
• Low key is best
• Food Etiquette

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Dancing Shoes

Imagine 太太 TaiTai's Purses and Shoes Dancing?!

Accessories dance in this short film.    We enjoyed this video   >> WATCH

Chan Family Foundation

VANCOUVER

The Chan Family Foundation is donating $750,000 to the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver and its entrance will be after the Chan family. The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC is named after the Chan family.    >>  DETAILS

The Chan' owned Crocodile Garments and are a prominent member of the Hong Kong community. They sold that business to Peter Lam, Lai Sun Group.    Sons Tom Chan and Caleb Chan are significant property owners in Canada.

The Expatriates

Excited to read the recently released The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee of Hong Kong.  

• New York Times
• Los Angeles Times

Janice Y.K. Lee was born and raised in Hong Kong and graduated from Harvard College.   She is a former editor of Elle magazine.

Year of the Monkey

Look at this exquisite lazy susan exclusive to Lane Crawford, its gorgeous

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The Best

East - West Case Study

Without doubt this is the best case study of creative from the West feted in the East - a successful merge of talent to produce something really outstanding.

These are the photos of our talented friend Justin Teodoro of New York City whose drawings plaster the walls of Shinjuku station in the heart of Tokyo for the Holiday 2015 season.  For directions to Barneys New York ...

Justin's holiday campaign for Barneys Japan 2015



 NYC artist, designer and illustrator was feted in Tokyo

What a successful merger of talent.   Congratulations to 太太 Reg.  Well done Justin.   So proud of you.

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A video posted by Justin Teodoro (@justinteodoro) on Nov 22, 2015 at 7:22am PST