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oh man!!! i can't stand hello kitty!!!!Quote:If you can tell that someone's sweaty, putrid t-shirt is from -that label- as they're whizzing past you on the track, if you know exactly what -that- thing is barely peeking out of someone's purse, if you know where they got -it- as -it- is gliding by on the airport luggage carousel, or if you smile as -it- whizzes past you on the road at 160 mph, THAT, my friends, is brand recognition.
As such, the logos that made MY top 10 list are:
iPod
Apple
SONY
Mercedes Benz
Prada
Dolce & Gabbana
Louis Vuitton
Mini Cooper
Palm
Hello Kitty
Edited by mareally on May 18, 2004 at 09:00 PM
--- Original message by mareally on May 18, 2004 08:58 PM
someone once sported a tee-shirt with the slogan "death to hello kitty" ... i need to find out where to get that shirt.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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well i'll give singapore that - sustainability! zouk has been around forever and i'm surprised no one thought to put a competitive club up around the area. hong kong's lan kwai fong and soho district's full of new clubs, but the old ones, club 97 - definitely can't sustain its rep like zouk.
is yellow still a happening club in tokyo?
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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la hune is kewl! but the name "shakespeare and company" comes to mind when it comes to english bookstores. although there's taschen as well in the area (6th)! then the museums' bookstores have some english selection. it actually depends on what type of books one wants to source, no?Quote:the best bookstores in Paris (they sell magazines too):
the bookstore of the Centre Beaubourg (very wide choice)
the bookstore of the Palais de Tokyo
Librairie de la Hune on Boulevard Saint-Germain
Colette has a smaller but excellent selection
--- Original message by titus on Apr 27, 2004 02:45 AM
i should check centre beaubourg, building a collection these days - i'm into culture, art, fabric, antiques, and biographies.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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isn't there another english/french bookstore not so far from saint suplice? gee, i also can't remember the name and places just yet. anyway, i'll wander around later and check it out.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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is zouk still happening?! wow, long history! what about velvet underground?
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have you visited any "happening" club recently? any worth checking out? i'd like to do a club hop but only when i have a few more places on my list.Quote:hello
le triptique - i went there to see the german band lali puna - it had just opened and wasn't very exciting - all new and overstaffed - kind of cold atmosphere. But maybe it's got better since? They have interesting live music.
--- Original message by Gabriel on Feb 13, 2004 02:30 PM
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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kai tak - really miss that airport, but it did get noisy for the residents who lived around the old airport area and i had friends in kowloon tong who owned fabulous houses (not high rise apartments so this is quite an amazing area, if they didn't encourage the high class prostitution in some of the mansion posing as beauty and massage salons) - and you'd have to repeat some conversation everytime a plane took off or landed!
at least it's there for posterity in this super must-have documentary "baraka".
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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I went through Berlin about hmm ... 3 years ago. But I came through an evening flight from Paris, got in at about 8-ish and just had the impression that it was really small. That was an interesting trip too, I went to attend the birthday party of a movie director friend and ended up back at this other actress girlfriend's apartment at 5 in the morning with another producer girlfriend. Tried to grab some sleep before heading back to the airport but as I was undressing, the flesh on my hand between thumb and pointing finger got hooked on this laundry staple that somehow stayed on the garter band of my panty hose! My hands started bleeding badly, and I couldn't get that staple off, nor could my girlfriends. It was major YEOUCH! We ended up rushing to the hospital forgetting to bring our passports. Everything turned out okay in the end though, the super doctors there even while looking and being grumpy initially finally got the staple out, gave me a tetanus shot and off I went. I wasn't even asked to pay!
A country I visit with people that kind will always be a special country for me.
But you're right, their airport's small and to think it's a pretty progressive place too. I thought I was in Tokyo when I first saw all their glass and chrome office buildings.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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meeting frank and beans?! you've got to be kidding! bwahahhahaaa!
how about ... "just do it"?!
gee, reading all these suddenly makes me feel i should be crossing my legs ... harder ... ;b
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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I've got to send a team of people to film the hottest and "happening" club scene in Asia and Europe in July - any reviews on the music and people scene in these places?
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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Hey kewl!!!
I'll post a review if I make it there and ... out.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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Hong Kong's a favourite and always will be - can't help the biasness since I grew up there. Norman Foster's team also sent the winning design for this incredible 40-hectacre canopy covered "cultural district" soon to come up in Hong Kong as well! Can't wait for it to be a reality!
I'd like to check on the new airports in China when they're operationable.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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- chek lap kok (hong kong): efficient, massive, and the cathay pacific business lounge is superb! love the noodle bar area with their subdued lighting.
- changi (singapore): first place i've encountered a computer store with just about everything you need supplied. nice "tropical" and shopping layout.
- arlanda (stockholm): petit, efficient ... very airport.
- allama iqbal (lahore): definitely not a place for women, men rule here, and you won't be able to get an inch near the luggage carousel until the men are done.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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oh my gawd! i was actually lead to this discussion board by friends who emailed me to check it out! didn't realise it was part of a pretty intense site: http://www.superfuture.com ... duh!
you guys do better work with your maps! wow!
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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i chanced upon this site, see: http://www.ibpc.fr/~dror/images/gif/metro2.jpg and realised i only covered these clubs so far:
man ray
buddha bar
monkey club
le barrior latino
man, i need to get out more often! any other clubs, happening-scene not listed on this metro club map in paris?
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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gosh, i just posted a response to this and didn't see it come out. oh well, bear with me dahlings if i repeat myself.
inspiration from magazines - will always be franco maria ricci's FMR magazine, although i know there was a problem with ownership last year and there's a change now so it's peppered more with advertisements whereas in it's original holistic form, it's the only magazine meant to be without advertisements.
citizen k is cool too, especially for €1 every quarterly issue. then there's the italian kult magazine, i love their agenda kult section where they mention all the young designers and the inspirational work they're into - do wish they're available commercially too!
then current inspiration in terms of art and craft and only because i love understanding the workmanship and effort that goes into certain artistic creation, are these amazing quaint clay chinese teapots called yixing teapots (see: http://www.yixing.com/teapotinfo.html). the art of tea drinking chinese style is vastly different from the art of tea drinking japanese style and the tea wares handcrafted in their highest form is truly an art worth preserving.
lastly, there's jordi labanda (see: http://www.jordilambanda.com) and the inoxcrom fountain pens that hold his designs - kewl writing instruments! i find jordi's work absolutely fabulous!
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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the shopping scene in hong kong's always changing for me. i couldn't come by when the sars problem hit the country last year and only just managed to visit twice from europe last year in december and just this january.
there are four shopping area i can recommend now just to breeze through and check out if anything catches your interest: always, harbour city, tsimshatsui and only because it seems to stretch for miles and you never get over how the buildings interconnect and bring you through levels and shops and shops every turn and twists; times square and areas around in causeway bay; the new ifc tower buildings in central have new shops opening inside and some look interesting; and you can never go wrong with the landmark in central, and areas around and across (armani and prada opening mega stores just in the adjoining buildings to the landmark, or find the connecting bridges to the other buildings and wander).
trouble with coming in from paris and knowing the shopping here is great, i always end up looking for local labels in hong kong or tailored outfit, but you'll need a really good shanghainese tailor for the perfect cut and one that truly flatters your figure.
the last time i had a suit done for my husband at sam's, the renown tailor shop along nathan road (and only because we were newly married and one has to have at least one outfit done by sam), a close examination of the workmanship showed pretty shoddy work on the trouser pockets.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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just thought i'd drop my centavos bit of say on this as i usually scour the places i visit for groovy laptop bags and backpacks (sometimes have too much equipment to drag around!) - two would be pretty stylish: CRUMPLER and STARCK FOR SAMSONITE, both may be a bit pricey, but they're worth it.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia
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fashion designers making jewellery..what do u think about it?
in supershopper
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when it comes to real jewellery, other than escada and chanel, i'm more after the established brands that have been in jewellery and are known for their works in that area.
chanel for me is an exception - and only because i'm mad about the brand since ines de la fressange became the face and muse for karl lagerfeld. and escada, well, escada diamonds are forever!
currently, i'm into biche de bere when i'm at play, and escada diamonds when i'm talking serious shit.
baby, we're all beautiful!
--isla maia