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128 PRINCE STREET: COLE HAAN

denise — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:03:37 +0000

While I was in New York, Cole Haan invited me down to check out their semi-newly renovated store on Prince Street in Soho and to introduce one of their special collections. The store is the perfect blend of tradition, classic, cool and contemporary. Fitted with tons of natural wood and trimmed with black metal along the fixtures, the interior made me feel like I just stepped into the coolest grandpa’s house, if this grandpa wore seriously cool desert boots and double denim (think Nick Wooster or basically anyone who goes to Men’s Fashion Week). They don’t carry a super wide selection of shoes, especially not for women but when you’re the makers of the perfect classic wingtip or oxford, why would you need such a wide selection anyway.

Cole Haan has taken classic shoe silhouettes and injected them with Nike air technology in their soles, making them seriously THE most comfortable shoes and added a twist to tradition with new materials and inventive colorways. Everything in the store felt timeless yet on trend which is exactly what everyone should be investing in.

I was introduced to the special SoHo-exclusive collection where the shoes are entirely made with the 3M reflective material from Nike shoes (you’ll see pics below). You know that little shiny thing that reflects light, normally found on the Nike tick or along the stripes of your airmax 95? Yep, these traditional classic Cole Haan silhouettes were completely made of that material. This collection is the perfect example of Cole Haan’s incredibly innovative twist on a classic shoe.

The special Soho-exclusive Reflective collection!

This picture shows the shoes with and without flash! Imagine wearing these and walking along the streets in the evening when a car suddenly drives by and the lights hit your shoes and BAMMMMM reflection city! These shoes are only available at the store Soho store.

“These reflective versions of our iconic wingtips and penny loafers were created to add a flash of visual impact to what’s traditionally a black and brown shoe world. It’s the idea of taking a classic shoe and adding a bold and unexpected twist”
— VP of Design, Phil Russo.

These were one of my favourite pairs! Before the final shoe was all sewn together, each shoe is hand dipped to create the little block of colour which makes every shoe that little bit different from the other. Too bad these didn’t run in women’s sizes ):

They had these cute bowls of colourful shoe laces. I think for every pair of shoes you buy, you get to pick an extra pair of laces!

They had a cute little vintage looking photobooth in the back of the store where you could take pics and it would feed to the digital frames hanging behind the counter. I wan’t to take a pic but I was too shy to take one alone :/

Now back at home!

The lovely people at Cole Haan let me pick out a pair from the reflective collection and I chose the Maliya Wingtips in black!

For my extra laces, I picked these thin hot pink ones which pops real nice against the dark grey. Oh and yes I’m going to change both of the laces to pink later.

Flash off!

Flash on!

These shoes are actually really slippery on the sole, so the trick is to just use a pair of scissors and scratch the shit out of the bottom! After more wear, these scruff up real nice.

Is everyone having an epileptic fit yet? hahahaha, well I love these shoes. Both my mom and nanz have a snake-skin version of the Maliya wingtips and they say they are the most comfortable shoes ever because of the Nike air technology. They’re my first pair of wingtips and I can picture them with rolled up black jeans and my bombass leather jacket. Outfit pics coming soon!

Anyway sorry for the extra long post and thanks sosoososososo much to Cole Haan for the amazing shoes! If you get the chance, you should all definitely make a trip down to the store to check out those hand-dipped shoes!

Bye!

WHAT NOW?

denise — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:03:31 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I hit up the Sam Edelman event held at Lane Crawford. The man himself was there presenting a limited edition line of shoes he designed especially for Lane Crawford. It was a fun packed hot little event at the shoe area of IFC where shoppers were confused as to what all the commotion was about, it didn’t help that the event was held RIGHT next to the sale section! There was fun cute little cupcakes and cookies with the iconic Edelman Lorissa and other shoes printed on them served and it was great to see the usual HK social media and blogger peeps out as usual!

Amazing mohawk studded loafers!

And these exclusive studded mohawk Lorissa heels! Soooo hot!

Loved these cute little everyday flats.

Even the little stand is cool no?

I spotted this lady from far away and I thought to myself I haaave to take a pic of her! That necklace, the denim shirt, yellow sweater, leather coat AND glasses were tooooo cool to avoid and I was so so so flattered and surprised she knew who I was hehehe! Turns out she’s a jewelry designer and designed that amazing necklace herself! Bridget (above) and her sister Kate run Barnett Jewellery and they make these amazing skull and tassle necklaces. You guys have to check them out! They don’t have an official website but they run this awesome blog here or find them on facebook! Sorry the photo isn’t the best to show off the necklace but you should really check out their stuff!

And this is what I wore…not a great photo I know..and also check out those th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-thUNDER THIGHSSSSSSS :D It was super hot in there so I had to take my leather jacket off…but anyways I wore the black Sam Edelman Lorissa’s (along with pretty much everyone there) and I loved how cooooool they made me look lol

and lastly, here’s a little clipping of me and Nanz from SCMP (Hong Kong’s no.1 English newspaper) from the event!

I’m off to have a fun day catching up at tea with one of my former bestfriends (hahahaha) who left to Canada millions of years ago and is now back in HK just visiting for a few days and I’m sooo excited to see him! But first, I’m going to be a slave and bring my current bestfriend JULIE PARK some fried rice and then we’re heading for hotpot dinner tonight! Topping the night off with drinks with my favourite blogger gang hehehe can’t wait!

Okay bye guys!

LANE CRAWFORD SS12 WITH TAYLOR TOMASI HILL

denise — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:06:22 +0000

Taylor in the amazing crochet lace and neon pink skirt she designed for her mini collection with Lane Crawford.

So last week before the dinner with Taylor Tomasi Hill, I ventured out to Wong Chuk Hang to the Lane Crawford office with Sha, Carmen and Tania to check out the latest LC SS12 collection. On our way there we were SUPER excited cos Taylor Tomasi Hill was gonna be there just moseying around the preview and we were super nervous as to what to say! Good thing me and sha were Prepared Pollys cos the night before we came up with a bunch of questions to ask her so as to avoid the awkward “so….how do you like Hong Kong?” type of situations. I don’t normally get starstruck..like I’ve seen tons of celebrities when I was in New York but was never like “OMGOMGOMGOGMOGMOGMOGMOGM” (except for the one time that Ashley Olsen sat on the table behind us in a cafe once) but otherwise..I rather not draw too much attention whenever I see a celebrity. BUT…this time, when we stepped onto the 30th floor and saw Taylor just moseying around…I was internally going “OMGOGMOGMOMGOGMOGMOGMOMGOGM”. She looks soooo cool and nice in person and is really friendly and approachable which made talking to her ten times easier! We got to spend a couple of minutes with her just asking her some fun questions then took an awesome nerve-wracking am-i-meant-to-put-my-arm-around-her-back group photo! I’ll post the little interview we did with her in my next post just cos it’s not been typed up yet.

So other than meeting TTH for the first time and totally loving her ten times more than we all already do, we were actually there to check out the upcoming collections for Spring Summer 2012. Of course I instantly fell for all the floral prints and amazing accessories! There was so much to take in so below are just some of me and nanz’s favourite picks!

Nanz’s favourite rhomper by TOGA.

In lovelovelvoelvevoelvelovelove with this mesh layered shirt dress by TOGA. I have a thing for granny style shirt dresses with a nipped waist and midi skirt length…

yummy floral prints

Omg this lace Carven crop top with a giant cut-out. As if the see-through lace wasn’t revealing enough no?

Oh man the floral watercolour inky prints from Prabal Gurung are just..amazing.

Two of Taylor’s pretty designed skirts

Each giant circular sequins was hand folded!

Leather collar details on the Taylor Tomasi Hill x Lane Crawford shirt. My mom would love this one.

Exclusive to Lane Crawford! A runway lace headpiece by Alexander McQueen.

I LOVE me a claw heel…by a classic Walter Steiger.

Super fun starfish print from YSL.

Dying for the Christian Louboutin studded clutch/iPad case! Also, those Men’s YSL leopard ponyhair slip-ons are amazing.

The Vans lover in me is DYING for these black Celine ponyhair slip ons!

Crazy runway pilgrim YSL shoes exclusive to Lane Crawford.

Guhhhhhhh yknow me…

Super cool Eddie Borgo bracelets that remind me of…bear traps.

SUPER cool closure on this EB cuff.

And finally….secret coffee with Taylor~~~ lol not. We saw her coffee lying around and of course, this was a MUST-DOCUMENT kind of moment with Carmen, Sha and JASON!

Fun fun group photo! That….

Taylor tweeted about!!! Yay soooo happy and excited :D

Lol and this was also on our way over :D Yay so fun!!!

Thanks ONCE again to Lane Crawford for the invite and TAYLOR~ if you’re reading this, SO SO SO fun meeting and chit-chatting and hope to see you again next time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out more coverage here: HIMYS tumblr – Sha-Lai – TlikebubbleTea – TOUGHLOVE.HK