Celebrity Life

How to wear this timepiece for every occasion.

The post Watch spread: Tread the line between fine and casual with the classic chronograph appeared first on The Peak Magazine.

How to wear this timepiece for every occasion.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

Bottega Veneta

Street style for spring/summer 2020 was awash with Daniel Lee’s square-toe sandals, either intrecciato woven leather mules or strappy sandals that had influencers and editors risking frostbite. In Lee’s second showing for the Italian leather house, the accessories were once again instant hits, with a supersized intrecciato hobo bag taking centre stage. In terms of ready-to-wear, Lee built on his first Bottega Veneta collection, in which he’d delivered strong looks with sharp lines. This collection saw lighter pieces with softened lines, but the clingy ribbed dresses were there, as were the sportier pieces with interesting twists. Leather was given lighter treatment this time round and could be found in the trenches, anoraks and Bermuda shorts.

Chanel

The parade across Rue Cambon’s zinc-lined rooftops hailed Virginie Viard’s new direction for the House of Chanel. Although grounded in the French maison’s heritage, Viard’s tweed rompers, short hems and all manner of leggy playsuits evoked the Nouvelle Vague. Unlike Lagerfeld’s larger-than-life Chanel girl, Viard’s woman was liberated in contemporary T-shirts, jeans and Breton stripes, which joined tiered skirts and layers of tweed on the runway. Of course, this was the occasion when a comedienne jumped into a line of marching models – security didn’t like it and Gigi Hadid kindly helped direct her off the runway – but audiences came away with a show to remember.

Dior

Sustainability is big in fashion, but is it sustainable? At Dior, the answer is a supersized yes. This season Maria Grazia Chiuri worked with Paris-based environmental design collective Coloco to create the arboreal set that became Dior’s catwalk, comprising trees that would later be planted around Paris. If that weren’t enough, Chiuri took inspiration from Christian Dior’s sister Catherine, a botanist and acclaimed gardener. The result was an earthy collection of jacquards, silks and lace interwoven with raffia and denim ombre pieces – a more sustainable savoir-faire.

Fendi

What does your garden-variety collection look like when interpreted by one of the biggest forces in luxury fashion? If it’s Fendi, think relaxed, languid and psychedelic, and with a leafy floral print made of Lycra and laced with mink the house retained its signature style. Gingham featured heavily, executed on sequin- dipped organza. Terrycloth also made its customary appearance, suggesting that wearability and practicality remain at the forefront of Silvia Fendi’s approach – and for women on the go, there wasn’t a high heel in sight.

Giorgio Armani

Delicately muted colours dominated Giorgio Armani’s collection, titled Earth, although only a handful of looks featured the brown of the soil. The rest were in dreamy palettes of soft greige and pale blues and pinks that pointed to the hues of minerals and vegetation. Tropical-leaf prints grounded the collection in its theme, while organza billowed and furled in a sort of wilderness to convey the uncontrollability of nature’s creations.

Gucci

For his fifth anniversary at the House go Gucci, Alessandro Michele knew it was time for change. The provocateur, who charged into the fashion scene with his maximalist approach to granny chic, staged his first collection of the new decade in a red-lit room, which then flashed white light against moving walkways as 21 models in straitjackets emerged from behind corrugated metal gates – and that wasn’t the full collection but rather an amuse-bouche. Michele is clearly breaking out from the mould he’d created for himself. His first look was a sheer top with a black skirt – something of a first for the designer whose motto was to use all the colours – and when colour does appear its presence is blocked and graphic. Print is used sparingly, and mostly in the form of the GG logo he’s resurrected from the archives. There were also nods in the pant and skirt suits to the brand’s leaner silhouettes from the ’70s and Tom Ford’s influence in the ’90s. Where there were once layers upon layers of jacquards and tweeds, lightness became the focus. Fabrics are sheerer, slip dresses contained lace inserts and skirts, and sleeves became a playground of how transparent fabrics could go. Sexiness appeared by way of a strong S&M influence, with riding crops referencing not only that but also the house’s equestrian heritage.

Hermès

Representative of the artisanal trend that overtook the Paris runways, the Hermès collection was replete with tunics, gladiator sandals, and aprons. Inspired partly by the aprons worn in the Hermès atelier, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski gave the humble piece a graphic makeover that was carried through in coats, dresses and shell tops. Having successfully delivered on heritage, she also merged modernity seamlessly into her collection through a series of coats and suits that demonstrate the finesse of craftsmanship that only a luxury house like Hermès can accomplish.

Shiatzy Chen

Wang Cheng Tsai-Hsia turned her hand to the underwear-as-outerwear trend, though Shiatzy Chen wouldn’t be so successful without its Chinese twist. Referencing fresh bamboo sprouts, the palette this season showed white, green, tan, red and black with breezy blouson cuts, sheer fabrics and bare legs.

The post What to Wear This Summer: Trends from the Fashion Shows appeared first on Prestige Online - Hong Kong.

In an era of hype, a reminder that less is often more.

The post Fashion spread: luxury, pared down appeared first on The Peak Magazine.

In an era of hype, a reminder that less is often more.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

When it comes to luxury, you can rest assured that Prestige has it covered. But with the sheer multitude, let alone variety, released regularly on the landscape, it can become rather difficult to figure out the best from the rest or to even pick up the newest and most exciting. As luck would have it, our editors are forever on the look out: discovering on-the-rise labels, picking up new products from cult brands and the finding the most desirable items there are. So for those that are curious what that might be, keep scrolling to discover what made the cut in our weekly Most Coveted list.

The post Most Coveted: Chanel, Fendi, Jil Sander and More appeared first on Prestige Online - Hong Kong.

Fresh off the plane from a week at Milan Moda Uomo, where he spent his days between shows and dinners with the likes of Sylvia Fendi, Daniel Lee and Isabel Marant, and then a couple days in Beijing tending to his various businesses, Oscar Wang arrives for our shoot on a Saturday morning in Hong Kong, on time, dressed discreetly in a beanie and trench coat, and ready to deliver. It’s difficult to imagine that Wang, all of 29 years of age, who now juggles a diversified portfolio of agency work, talent management, creative branding, a club in Beijing and restaurants in Shanghai, didn’t happen on his career until quite recently.
Known for most of his life as “the son of actress and acclaimed director Sylvia Chang”, Wang’s search for what he wanted to do took a little time. “I wasn’t an academically gifted student,” he says, laughing. Yet even at an early age and despite poor grades, Wang knew in the back of his mind that he wanted to be a businessman – and possessed an independence of spirit that allowed him to forge a path of his own choosing. After what he describes as a particularly gruelling time studying at LaSalle, one of the best local boys’ schools in Hong Kong, Wang’s parents decided to move him to Yew Chung International School, where the academic rigour was less intense for both mother and son.
“I went there and life was much easier,” Wang says. “I was considered academically gifted at Yew Chung for three years. People thought I was a genius because it was so intense at LaSalle that my grades were amazing, I was so ahead. I didn’t have to study or anything. But it started showing after grade five.”
t which point, Wang took it upon himself to apply for boarding school at Cheltenham in England – and to both his and his parents’ surprise, he got in. The note of pride is evident even now in Sylvia Chang’s tone when she recalls her son’s proactiveness. “When he reached his early teenage years, Oscar began to focus a lot on his peer group, and it was around then that he decided he wanted to go to boarding school. So, I said to him, ‘If you can apply and get in, then you can go.’ And he applied and got in!”
For Wang, going to boarding school in England was a way for him to escape Hong Kong and its pressures, “I just thought Hong Kong was a little tiring,” says Wang when asked why he wanted to leave. It’s not necessarily surprising, given Wang’s background as the son of one of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China’s most celebrated directors of film, stage and television.

[caption id="attachment_188705" align="alignnone" width="957"] Outfit Brunello Cucinelli[/caption]

Of this, his mother says, “In the beginning, he wouldn’t tell anybody that I was his son. He didn’t like that. He didn’t want people to know him only as my son. He wanted people to know him for who he is. And I’d say to him, ‘Oscar, you have to accept the fact that I am your mother. And being an actor or a celebrity or whatever they call it is a fact. You cannot just deny it. It’s something you have to live with.
“As he’s grown up, he’s come to realise that it’s OK, because he now has confidence and has found something he’s good at, something for which people love him, like him, accept and admire him for, as Oscar Wang. And people now recognise him for his work, rather than simply as my son.”
“I can’t hide from it,” says Wang. “I tried to hide but that’s how people like to introduce me, so I’m used to it. I think that as long as I’m doing something good in life, there’s no shame in it. You can really work on your own path and now a lot of people call her ‘Oscar’s mother’, so it’s shifted in some sense.”
But Wang does credit his work ethic to his mother. “Her main influence on me was that of hard work,” Wang says. “When it comes to creativity, the details that she focuses on, what she’s trying to portray in a film, all of that she says has to come from the soul. It’s always about portraying the truth to an audience. It can be through any medium, in any shape and form, but it always has to be truthful.”

[caption id="attachment_188706" align="alignnone" width="957"] Jacket, top and trousers Brunello Cucinelli | Shoes Loro Piana[/caption]

Wang was made to go out and work from a young age. “I always worked every summer and Christmas. My parents sent me to my aunt’s garment factory in Thailand when I was a kid, where we’d make T-shirts for big brands. I was quite young, so I didn’t really know what was going on, but I found it really fun. I’d tag the clothes and feel good because I knew I was earning money doing it.
“I also worked as a bell boy at the Grand Hyatt. I’ve worked at streetwear stores and was a personal assistant in Taipei. Usually it was a month or two, but working hard came easily to me. Being a bell boy was quite interesting, though, because it was in Hong Kong and I’d get recognised by uncles and aunties who’d tip me pretty well.”
Wang ultimately chose to attend the Chelsea College of Arts because of his gift in sculpture, a talent his mother only discovered when she saw one of his school exhibitions. “He was always very good at drawing doodles and I knew he had good taste, but I never really knew how good he was or what aspect of art he was talented in until he was in high school – and I saw that he’d created a sculpture,” says Chang. “I was amazed. Even in high school, the teachers told me that the only thing he could sit down, concentrate on and enjoy doing was art.
“So I then tried to persuade and encourage him to become a sculptor, but he refused!” she says, letting out a mirthful belly laugh.

[caption id="attachment_188709" align="alignnone" width="957"] Outfit Fendi[/caption]

For Wang, it was a period of soul searching. “I stopped sculpting when I reached Chelsea College of Arts,” Wang says. “I did the foundation course in the first year, where you’re encouraged to figure out your path, and I was really bad at that, so life became really party-driven and I figured I’d chill out and be a fine artist.
“Then one day, a tutor said to me, ‘Hey your grades are really bad. You should really figure something out that will make you more driven in life, something with some structure.’ So I chose interior spatial design, because there are deadlines and you had to pass your course according to a rubric. So I began shifting away from fine art and into design.”
From there Wang applied for an internship at the studio of Irish designer David Collins, where he was exposed to projects the firm was working on with Alexander McQueen, the Ritz Carlton and properties in the Arabian Gulf.
“It opened up my world in terms of how everything works differently for each client and how to adjust designs to suit specific requests. They also did a bit of furniture and small design pieces here and there, which really inspired me in terms of the breadth of creativity that was allowed in the luxury sector.”
Once the internship was complete, Wang intuited that a move to Shanghai would be his next step. “I felt that if I didn’t go back to China, I’d regret it in the future, to not have utilised our strength right now as such a powerful country,” Wang explains. “I meet everybody from around the world in Shanghai. They’re all somebody back in Europe and the world, but when they’re in Shanghai, they’re kind of in your territory and they’re willing to spend more time to understand you.” Initially Wang set up his own interior-design studio but two years later, in 2015, Apple acquired Beats by Dre and for a long time was looking for celebrities to feature in a campaign for China, but to no avail. Word reached them that Wang could help and a few phone calls later, Apple had its campaign faces. “My partner and I are well connected in the entertainment industry, due to our backgrounds, so we made it happen. And suddenly we realised, ‘Oh this is interesting.’ We didn’t realise this was a business – connecting celebrities with brands – and we started doing it more and more,” Wang explains.
“Basically every campaign, campaign shoot, spokesperson and face of a product launch was arranged by us. We started from there and slowly became an agency connecting brands with artists. Slowly we realised that not only did international brands need talent, but so too did national ones. Now we do KFC, Pizza Hut, Proctor & Gamble and even Unilever.”
From there, because Wang’s firm also handled payments for talent, he diversified and began managing talent. “We started with Natasha Liu, because she had a unique look and she could fight. That was how it started,” Wang says.

[caption id="attachment_188711" align="alignnone" width="957"] Outfit Fendi[/caption]

“Now, we have a supermodel and a young boy who’s still in training, but he’s doing more acting and a bit of singing. We’ve also signed on Kevin Hart, to help with his social platforms, and we’ve started trying to figure out and strategise how to bring Western talent into China.”
Due to sustained success, Wang closed down his design studio in order to focus solely on growing the business. But almost as soon as he did so, Fendi came knocking with a design project to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Peekaboo bag. Wang was invited alongside six other artists to design a special-edition Peekaboo, and has since become a firm collaborator with the Italian fashion house. This February, he’s launching Chinese New Year FenDidi animations alongside an installation in Taipei.
It’s a busy start to the year for Wang, who takes a frenetic schedule and constantly moving parts in his stride with a soft-spoken and calm demeanour. In between shooting his Prestige cover and the launch of the installation, he’s to fly back to Shanghai to check on his new ramen restaurant and oversee new flavours for Joe’s Pizza, a franchise he licensed from the New York original. How does he do it? “Just do it, don’t waste time and be curious,” Wang says.
For someone who insists that his academic career wasn’t spectacular by any stretch, Wang is now an avid reader. “I’m more conscious now, because there are so many elements of my business that can be affected by what happens around the world and I have a lot of partners who are well versed in what they do and are constantly sharing knowledge.
“Given that I’m in such a great position in terms of the creative businesses, as well as my other businesses, I need to upgrade myself so that when conversations happen, discussions are more fruitful – and being informed in an exchange really comes off better when you also understand what they’re talking about. That way, when you come in with your unique spin, people are guaranteed to love it. At the end of the day, we just want to make something exciting happen.”

Photography Karl Lam

Art Direction Sepfry Ng 

Styling Zaneta Cheng

Hair and Make-up Kidd Sun

Photography Assistant West Ng 

Styling Assistant Lau Bo

The post The Son Also Rises: Serial Entrepreneur Oscar Wang appeared first on Prestige Online - Hong Kong.

Whatever the style of your tribe, these party looks will make for a visually arresting entrance.

The post Fashion spread: ring the bells appeared first on The Peak Magazine.

Whatever the style of your tribe, these party looks will make for a visually arresting entrance.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

[caption id="attachment_178829" align="alignnone" width="6669"] On model: Robe, skirt and flats Chanel | Sunglasses Oliver Peoples | Bag Fendi | On trolley: Clutch Dior x Rimowa | Luggage Tumi | Sneakers Sergio Rossi[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178838" align="alignnone" width="3840"] Earrings with beaded rubies and round diamonds, necklace with beaded rubies and round diamonds, swirl ring with oval spinel, bracelet with emerald-cut rubies and diamonds Graff | Dress and clutch Bottega Veneta[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178833" align="alignnone" width="3840"] Shoes Dior | Chocolates Godiva | Historiques American1921 timepiece Vacheron Constantin | Rouge Allure lipsticks Chanel | Bracelet Chanel | Mignardise necklace in pink gold and mother-of-pearl, Star signet long earrings Montblanc | Silk scarf Hermès | 30 Montaigne Bag Dior | Sunglasses Miu Miu | Contes D’Hiver earrings in white gold with round diamonds Van Cleef & Arpels[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178832" align="alignnone" width="3840"] Serpenti earrings in rose gold with rubellite eyes and full diamond pavé; Serpenti necklace in rose gold with rubellite eyes and diamond pavé on the chain and head; Serpenti ring in rose gold with amethyst eyes Bvlgari | Dress Versace[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178861" align="alignnone" width="3840"] Happy Hearts Wings earrings, necklace and bangle in white gold with diamonds | L´Heure du Diamant collection watch in white gold with opal and diamonds Chopard | Green carpet collection bag by Chloë | Sevigny Chopard | Dress Dior[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178835" align="alignnone" width="5952"] Dress Dolce & Gabbana | Sandals Sergio Rossi | Necklace Chanel Eye & cheek palette Laura Mercier (in box) | Shimmer skinstick Fenty Beauty (in box) | Rabbit-fur doll Loro Piana | Edition no. 5 The Macallan | Bag Versace | Rouge Dior Couture lipstick collection Dior | Tenue de Soirée eau de parfum Goutal | Bangles Hermès | Beoplay H9 headphones B&O | Sunglasses Oliver Peoples | Face palette Nars[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178834" align="alignnone" width="3840"] Outfit and accessories Gucci[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178830" align="alignnone" width="3840"] Souvenir d’étoile earrings Montblanc | Constellation manhattan master chronometer timepiece Omega | Hustle cheek palette and studio 54 audacious lipsticks Nars | Dentelle secrète bracelet in white gold with mauve sapphire, turquoise, white mother-of-pearl and diamonds Van Cleef & Arpels | Secret wonder necklace with sapphires, aquamarines and diamonds Harry Winston | Fleur Impérial ring in white gold with one oval-cut red spinel, mauve sapphires and diamonds Van Cleef & Arpels | Secret cluster ring with sapphires and diamonds Harry Winston | Sunglasses Coach[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178836" align="alignnone" width="4096"] Happy diamonds earrings, pendant and ring in rose gold with diamonds; happy moon watch in rose gold with diamonds Chopard | Dress Hermès[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_178837" align="alignnone" width="3840"] Multi-shape diamond bow earrings, necklace, bracelet and ring Graff | Dress Dolce & Gabbana[/caption]

Photography Until Chan at UC Workshop

Styling See So

Hair Heather Cheng

Make-Up Christ Lam

Mode; Nathaly K at Quest Models

Poodle Coco Lung

Location Rosewood Hong Kong

The post It’s a Wrap: Essential Outfits and Accessories for Your Yuletide Getaway appeared first on Prestige Online - Hong Kong.

Prepare for climate change with flowy, comfortable outerwear.

The post The latest trend in men’s fashion: robes appeared first on The Peak Magazine.