Discipline is what's needed to keep updating a blog. Discipline is perhaps the most over-stereotyped personality type in Chinese immigrant college students in an Ivy League. Since I'm have neither discipline nor am I an ivy-leaguer, I am therefore absolved of blame.
But let's talk about China. And how you just can't seem to get away from it. China, the Chinese, is as contagious as bird flu. They're on the news, they're in the Guggenheim, they're setting art auction records, they are building amazing feats of architecture, they're taking over the fashion world, and soon, they will be the face of Lane Crawford's SS08 print campaign.
Lane Crawford's SS08 campaign will feature Chinese personalities, including Maggie Cheung, Du Juan, Tan Yuan Yuan, Fu Jia, Huang Jue and Liu Ye.
Firstly, I would like to say to Lane Crawford - What took you so long? I love you and all, especially your boxing day shoe sale, but I think GAP beat you to iconic, black and white, broody portrait-driven campaigns featuring asians. I guess a lot has been riding on the Beijing Olympics, but I can't help but see all these slick ad campaigns as a way of diverting attention away from China's ugly side. The images are great, but I really don't like the silly words at the bottom of the image and the juxtapositions don't make any sense. Tan Yuan Yuan's picture of 'subtlety' is hardly subtle movement at all. They remind me of Martha Graham's lamentations, you know, the piece where she looks like an alien baby trying to bust out of an oversized pillow case? ( I love Martha Graham, by the way.)
Who wants to go to HK with me?
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