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Social Diary
Universal Music's Fantastic 4 kick-off show is gonna kick off at 5pm this Wednesday, June 11. If you're not invited, you can stand outside Prince Hong Kong Hotel and fantasize and scream for your favorite Universal artists to rescue you from mediocrity and whisk you backstage. Which Universal artists, you ask? We'll kiss, but we'll never tell...
With the popularity of Miami and LA Ink on screens all over the globe, tattooing is back again as a serious art form. Come check out ChinaStylus and Red Dog's Skin-Ink Tattoo Art Exhibition VIP Opening Party Thursday night at the equally glam-street pool hall/bar Racks tomorrow on Thu, Jun 12. 2-8 Wellington St., Central. Invite only of course.
And the amazing Signore Alberto Alessi will be here to do the opening of "Tea & Coffee Towers", next Monday, Jun 16 at the Landmark Atrium. It's a fabulous exhibtion of 22 coffee and tea sets by celebrated designers like Zaha Hadid, Will Alsop, Gary Chang, Jean Nouvel, Morphosis, MVRDV, Alessandro Mendini, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. I reckon prosecco will be served then. Che bella vita! Invite only.
A socialite's schedule for Friday the 6th
So there's Roger Vivier pre-sale cocktails at the Vivier boutique in Landmark, Central, from 3:30pm to 7:30. It's 30-40% off on shoes, bags and accessories. If perhaps, you don't know where the only Vivier store outside of Paris is exactly, ask the Landmark concierge. Rumors have it that a lot of fellow socialites will be there, like fabulous Ting Ting. She better not try and acquire those satin stilettos that I've been craving should rightfully be mine.
Don't stay too late at the Landmark, for there's Vivienne after Vivier. Yes, Westwood's FW08 fashion show will commence at around 7:30pm over at Elements. My friend DJ Allan Ho is doing the music for them. I heard his mix of sweet punk rock he’s painfully crafted for Westwood last night over the pho. Be there, and worship the fashion queen’s latest line. Of course there’ll be champagne.
And then you can cab back to Central for Privé (Centrium, 60 Wyndham St.) The mega-club is hosting the “EVOLVE with MSN” party and press show tonight at 9pm. We’ve all evolved with MSN, I mean, I certainly can’t imagine my social life without Messenger. And there are more socialites to look at, like Philip Ma and Ms. Winnie Ma, Paco Chan, Lionel Fischer, Vicky Lam, Walter Hau and celeb photographer Wing Shya. Oh and of course, a charity auction to raise funds for the relief and rehab for all those poor dears in Sichuan. You've partied enough for the day, give something back to keep your good socialite karma, dahlings.
All Tomorrow's Parties
Watermark, Watermark. Everyone seems to have fallen in love with you as the new IT party venue. Pucci is unveiling their fabulous prints at a fashion show in Watermark on Thursday, May 22.
On May 23, you get to modelize at the Quiksilver Guerilla Gallery on 59 Staunton Street, where Quiksilver and Roxy are going to have their bitchin’ S/S08 fashion show and party. They’ve shipped over some pretty bodacious surfboards that have been on exhibit in Holland and France. From May 24 to 29, the Art On Foam exhibition will be open to the public, from noon to 8pm.
Have you gotten your $450 tickets for Ed Banger’s France Touches Hong Kong partay on Fri, May 30? If you haven’t yet, then you’re RETARDED. Or uh, OK, you’re just not that into electro. But if you feel the fire for electro in your loins, then don’t miss out on Europe’s most stellar electro label bringing seven of their fiercest artists, including downright dirty female vocalist/MC, Miami-born and HK-raised Uffie. Get your tickets at HK Ticketing (2620-2222) and get your ass down to Star Hall, HITEC, 1Trademart Drive, Kowloon Bay at 9pm.
If you’ve got fashionista eyes, you must've noticed the colorful façade of the new Coach store materializing bit by bit at the edge of Lan Kwai on D’Aguilar and Queens Road Central. Well, the opening will be on Friday, May 30. They’re keeping things enigmatic, just like the astounding LV party earlier this year, for they won’t reveal the details or venue of the launch party until the very last minute. Who knows? Maybe they’ll have limousine coaches ferrying all those upper-crust partiers to some monster club in Shenzhen for the night.
Some parties to go to
Hi Darlings, After all that ferocious fabulousness with Cartier at the Four Seasons, Hermès at the Peninsula and DJ Morales at Dragon-i last week, it's kinda blah blah bland this week.
Legendary British design brand Established & Sons will be having a cocktail party on the 15th (this Thursday) at the Lane Crawforod Pacific Place Home Store (1/F, 88 Queensway, Admiralty). Those of you who've got invitations from Lane Crawford can come and have a martini and meet Alasdhair Willis (CEO and husband of Stella McCartney; worship her, bitches), Sebastian Wrong (Operations Director and Designer who's done right) and Michael Young (illustrious, renowned British designer).]
And then you can head over to Prive (60 Wyndham St., Central), yunno, that mega-club under D-i. Well, it survived a YEAR in these cut-throat clubbing times, and they'll have their first anniversary party to celebrate! Start queueing up at 9am, coz you know just how PACKED a mega-club can get at that hour. The dress code is gold and white, just like 36 of those other parties we've been to before. Please RSVP by calling 28XX-XXXX. What? You thought we were going to give you the number? If you haven't received the classy invitation with gold font by now, your only hope of being there is to kiss ass and get on someone's list. Or you can try begging at 2810-8199.
Big Brands and Salted Fish
It's a weak week for we mere mortals. The two biggest parties are pretty exlusive affairs and will be dueling it out head-to-head on Friday. Choose between the big Hermes-sponsored Indian-themed to-do at the Peninsula (fancy saris, please), and another high-falutin jewelry launch party with Cartier, this time at the Four Seasons. Both invite-only. Hermes starts at 7pm, includes cocktails and dinner; Cartier at 9pm in the Four Seasons' Grand Ballroom (for all your grandest needs).
On Thursday, esteemed invite-receivers and their plus ones can hit up "A Touch of Spring" at FINDS, where the good staff at our favorite Nordic restaurant will be showing off their new "scapas" (not as scabby as they sound, they are actually a lovel combination of "Scandanavian" + "Tapas." Oh, witty portmanteau!). You're more than likely to see us there, faces stuffed with salted halibut on biscotti. FINDS, LKF Tower, 33 Wyndham Street.
Rounding out the week are a few exhibition/artsy opening-type things. On Friday, 6pm, catch East/West's new exhibition opening party at Sundaram Tagore Gallery on (57-59 Hollywood Road), or shuffle over to New World Centre in TST to check out the new Gallery of Modern Art and imbibe a cocktail or two whilst stroking beard and pondering why you've never personally had a blue period. 6:30pm, L115-116, New World Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui.
