L.V. (Louis Vuitton) – luxury leather luggage, French fashion designer. I think nobody will miss this brand, especially Hong Kong people and Japanese. They all love these 2 alphabets. I was at their main boutique on Avenue Champs-Elysées today, (‘window’ shopping around). When I went inside the shop, stylist Handbags ,wallets, key holders, sunglasses, shoes…etc, your mind and your wallet would start flying out from your body. I saw Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese everywhere…showing their passports (foreigners can get 12% tax refund by showing their passports) and credit cards. Near me, a wife was choosing 2 handbags, her husband had chosen some ties and belts, their sales presented the wife more bags with different styles, husband said ‘oh, that’s enough, please stop showing her more bags.’ (his ‘That’s enough’ meant 2000 to 3000 euros at least). On the other side of the shop, 5 kids were quarreling and screaming while their mother was looking around, other clients were being disturbed, thus one of the security guys asked them leave.

Their sales will serve you coca, coffee or champagne with a cuty small tray. When one of the sales is serving you, he/she will not serve the other clients. They have a lift with 3 doors, each door brings you to a different level of the building. I was looking around and wondering their reason for success. Why people thinks they become ‘High Class’ when they are carrying LV bags? Why people are willing to pay their 2 months salary for a LV handbag ? L.V. has a long history (since 1854), excellent service, excellent marketing and promotion.

While I was at the main entrance and leaving the shop, a young sales girl was saying ‘Hello’, Good-bye’ politely to each customer, most of them did not really care about her. I heard she whisper to her colleague who standing near her : ‘Keep smiling …’        Shazy

Last Sunday, my hubby went to “study” timepieces at IWC, International Watch Co., which newly opened a flagship boutique, TST, Hong Kong.  I just walked along with him.  When he talked with the informative sales manager, I browsed around and found a small room housed a pilot seat facing to a digital screen.  Another salesman explained the idea of the pilot seat and the digital game.  SO COOL!  I will post the pictures next time (Don’t know why I could not download the pictures from my cell phone).  Anyway, the game and the seat were designed for pilots or gamers to play and matched with IWC Pilot’s watches.

For the Pilot’s watches, IWC also provides a pair of watch for father and son.  They didn’t accept sons to inherit father’s watches only.  As informed by the salesman, they believed that father and son should have an unique watches together.   Anyway, I have alreday got my mother’s vintage watches.  I love plain and elegant.  Haha…..        (Also, show you next time.)           Peggy  :P

I think most of the girls like jewellery.  I’m, too.  I once wanted to study jewellery design because I can create something I really like and express my feeling in my mind.  Anyway, I keep on watching any great pieces in the market.

Here I found Karen Lee’s masterpiece in a magazine.   Really, they are so nice.  Her jewels give me a feeling of elegant and love.  Please click here to view her masterpieces. (I don’t own any piece of Karen Lee’s jewel; so can’t show you with picture.)   Peggy

Thanks to Mr Sunny for creating the mode of sunglasses. I have always wanted to buy a pair of designer fashion sunglasses (you know, like a star and show off a bit….hihihi….), however, it is very difficult to find one with my flat nose. I had one pair (no brand, no fashion) for many years and it was broken few days ago.
With a very good reason to buy a new pair, I went into an optical shop on Avenue Champs-Elysees and looked for one that suitable for my ‘flat nose’. I tried a lot (brand & fashion) but nearly all of them slipped down my nose. While I was disappointingly leaving the shop, I saw the “Ray Ban” display. I tried and it became friend of my ‘flat nose’, I bought it and left the shop with joy.
If you have a ‘flat nose’, you can still find your fashion brand sunglasses.

My kids sunglasses. They don’t care about the brand or fashion, but the colour. ‘We are girls, please buy Pink, mum!!’

At 8 o’clock in the morning, I left my kids at home with their grandmum and came out breath some fresh air. I went inside a ‘Boutique-Coffee Shop; Chez Jean’, bought a magazine, ordered a cup of coffee and sat near the window. Their style is so different from the traditional french café, a bit like a ‘High class 7-Eleven’ in HK. Air-conditioning, coffee, magazines, cakes…. Self-service.
I saw an ecology shopping bag just hanging in front of me, the bag was made of ‘toile’ (canvas), a very simple style. At that moment, I thought of the artile of Peggy ’05 August, Shopping Bags’, talking about ecology shopping bag. They are everywhere! (oh, I forgot to see the price…maybe next time)
Chez Jean – 153 r Charenton 75012 PARIS                   Shazy

Wanna introduce a good product to you, sis…. That’s Colorstay Mineral Mouse Markup Foundation provided by Revlon.

Colorstay Mineral Mousse Makeup

In these days, I read a lot of the articles about mineral makeup and bought Colorstay Mineral Mouse Makeup foundation provided by Revlon because it is the 1st company launched mineral makeup products as I found.  It is really smooth and easy to put onto my face, making my skin shiny.  It is also long lasting.  For example, I put on the markup in the early in the morning upto 10pm.  I still looks good.

It is not expensive.  Please have a trial, all sis!     Peggy

‘Blig blig’ is the new trend from Japon & Hong Kong. As shown above, our designer uses swarovski crystal to decorate usb, keys, cellphones…etc with different patterns and different colours. They are all handmade, designer puts the crsytal one by one on the object in order to set up the whole pattern. …read the rest of this entry»

Falling Bags @ Great, Hong Kong

Can you see that the shop decoration is so funny?  They’re the shopping bags; otherwise, they can be a bear hanging in your purses or backpacks as mobile decor.  In the early July 2009, Hong Kong Government SAR has been carrying out the leny on plastic bags.  It charges HK$0.5 (Equal. to EUR0.045) for each plastic bags.  It’s overwhelming success that about 80 per cent of shoppers at participting businesses are bringing their own bags.  It means we needs a lot of shopping bags in these days. …read the rest of this entry»