Wing Shya and Tony Chan’s new film HOT SUMMER DAYS will show in Hong Kong starting today! China started showing it last week and Taiwan/Singapore from Feb. 25th. Congrats Wing and Tony!

Special HOT SUMMER DAYS window installation by Sean Kunjambu at the Diesel Planet Store in Central

During the movie premiere, some limited edition HOT SUMMER DAYS photo books were given out to VIPs. We have some avaialble at Diesel stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai (Plaza 66) - you can get a copy when you buy something at Diesel…copies are very limited though!

Wing Shya signed a copy of the book for me…he claims he only wears Diesel…

I’m totally behind on my 2010 blog updates already, and now in a situation of trying to update in chronological order, but feel that I’m posting stuff that are dated already. So instead of backtracking too much, I’m just going to do a “review” of people, places and random stuff from the past 6 weeks, starting from the most recent one.

I got back to Hong Kong the other day, and managed to catch up with Sonya Park, who is in town for a few days…

Sonya is a top fashion stylist from Japan, and she also owns a brand called Arts & Science, which, in my opinion, is one of the more interesting new brands that have recently emerged from Japan. All her products are 100% Made in Japan and now also includes menswear, which has a standalone store in Aoyama. She also recently launched a concept store (also in Aoyama) called “Off the Counter”, a highly edited objects and desirables store…inspired by her series of books “Sonya’s Shopping Manual”…
 
…and the third installment “1 to 301″ was also just released which Sonya refers to as the “bible” mainly because of the black book casing and thickness, since its a compilation of all 3 books. This book series has been quite popular in Japan and of course influential - it was an obvious reference for the Personal Effects book. I’m waiting for my copy of the new book Sonya!

As usual, Sonya was sporting an interesting piece of vintage - a “Big Rose” 1950s Tudor watch!

I arrived Berlin the other day to participate in the Diesel event at Bread & ButterGreat billboard of the new BE STUPID ad campaign outside the airport - check out the manifesto video on www.diesel.comIts been snowing for the past week in Berlin…I braved the snow to catch the last day of the Thomas Demand exhibition at the Neue NationalgalerieThe exhibition was INSANE! Thomas Demand creates cardboard models of everyday settings/objects and photographs them. The level of detail is amazing. Cameras weren’t allowed inside the exhibition, but here are some images from the catalog…

Just picked up the launch issue of Inventory Magazine at Kapok at their 2nd location on Sun Street in Wan Chai. Go buy this magazine - its very well done. I read this magazine from cover to cover in one sitting, and I have not done this in a verrrrryyyy long time. Inventory is the evolution of h(y)r collective. Great job guys!