Glowing in the Dark

Unquestionably, The Peninsula is Hong Kong’s most renowned and recognised ‘brand’. The prestigious hotel is often voted the best in Asia, if not one of the best in the world. From royalty (Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana and Prince Charles), Hollywood superstars (Jennifer Lopez, Tom Cruise) to rockers (Bryan Adams), they have all stayed at The Peninsula over the years. Fiercely guarding the privacy of their respected VIP guests, we are very honoured that, for the first time, our magazine is the first publication that has the privilege of doing an exclusive shoot at their newly launched Salon De Ning. At the private enclaves of this beautiful new venue, we present what’s hot this season, at the coolest venue in town.


Produced by P.Ramakrishnan
Photography by Olaf Mueller
Stylist: Shiva Shabani
Hair & Makeup: Karen Yiu
Models: David and Zoe
Venue: Salon de Ning at The Peninsula, Hong Kong



BEHIND THE SCENES:

Working with Olaf is always fun. Apart from being one of the best in the biz, Olaf and Jessica, his lovely model-wife, are two of my fav people in Hong Kong. I saw his work in Kee magazine ages ago and kept his name on file. He's done nearly all my 'first' covers. Being as good as he is, he's also one of the few people I trust implicitly that I can leave the set and know everything will be done on time and be perfectly printable. Others, I have to hover over to make sure I get what I want for the mag.

This was also a second shoot with stylist Shiva Shabani, who is amazing and yum to work with. A great eye, a great relationship with brands, we also clicked from the word go. As mentioned before, after a horrific time in the last rag I worked for, life's too short to work with idiotic people who give more grief than relief!


Again, Karen Yiu was on board to oversee hair and makeup. Perfection.

And two of the great joys in my life, Savanna and Adyr helped out too. Thanks to Shiva, there was copious wardrobe and accessories and this was one of the biggest shoots we did and had the largest team behind it.

And you don't know pro until you've worked with a hotel staff like the Peninsula. They were sooooooo good to us, fed us and generally took care of the entire team 'cause it was a long freakin' shoot!