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Best of the Best 2024: Robb Report Hong Kong is out NOW!

Best of the Best 2024: Robb Report Hong Kong is out NOW! 

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The Best in Style, From Brunello Cucinelli and Stefano Ricci to Louis Vuitton

Quiet luxury is making headlines, shining a light on exquisite craftsmanship and bespoke excellence.

Read the full feature here.

The Best in Jewellery, From Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels to Chanel and Anna Hu

Fashion houses are stepping up their game with bold and beautiful high jewellery, going toe-to-toe with heritage brands.

Read the full feature here.

The Best in Gear, From Bang & Olufsen and Samsung to Devialet and KEF

Data-savvy companies are already using AI to help shape the products you buy—not by talking, but by listening.

Read the full feature here. 

 

TBT: Behind the Scenes of a Magazine Cover Shoot

 

TBT: Behind the Scenes of a Magazine Cover Shoot. 

Working with Feiping is always a pleasure; she's on time, she's very good to the team, she's involved and creative, puts her own stamp in all her shoots - and she gives a shout out to the crew when they do a great job. 

Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xoxofei/

As incredible as her images are, her gorgeous twin girls-the best dressed kids in the world-are taking over. 

TBT: Lifestyle: Couple on a Mission: Tenniel Chu and Carmen Chu

TBT: This cover story and feature for Prestige's annual Lifestyle.

The good people at Brooks Brothers came through for the cover shoot. 

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In 1994, when David “Mr Golf” Chu turned a patch of industrial wasteland in Shenzhen into the world’s largest golf course, it was seen as complete madness by many, including the provincial mayor. Golf was a nonentity in the country, frowned upon by the Communist Party ever since Mao Zedong declared the sport “too bourgeois”.

But David Chu’s vision paid off. Today, the Mission Hills Group dominates the golf industry in China, with huge multi-course resorts in Shenzhen, Dongguan and Hainan as well as hotels, leisure resorts, sports academies, schools, artist villages, malls and even a movie-themed theme park in Haikou called Movie Town.

But much of that expansion has been overseen by David’s son Tenniel, who works as vice chairman of the group alongside his brother Ken, the group’s chairman. Pioneering a so-called “golf and more” concept has broadened the popularity of the sport, helping to dust off the elite image it once held. Non-traditionalists might tut at the group’s more eccentric ideas – the upcoming Fantasy Course in Hainan features an island green with an 80-metre-wide bowl of noodles and 75-metre-long chopsticks serving as the lake – but the numbers don’t lie. Last year Mission Hills invested a total of 40 billion yuan in mainland China and the company is going from strength to strength.

Carmen Chu, Tenniel’s glamorous wife, is an arts enthusiast who balances being the mother of two children with her ongoing art history studies at the University of Hong Kong. She admits candidly that she decided to go back to university in order to understand more about the art world and also as a way of grounding herself against the seemingly endless series of parties and galas that come as a consequence of her husband’s jet-setting job.

We sat down with the dynamic couple in their well-appointed home to find out more. Read the full feature here at PrestigeOnline.

Photography / Olivier Yoan  

Styling / Florent Thiébaut 

Styling assistant / Marco Chan  

hair & Make-up / Reve Ryu    

Outfits / Brooks Brothers

This was the Lifestyle 2017 cover story. 

You know you love her, xoxo: Feiping Chang 張翡玶 aka xoxofei on Instagram

One of the OG Social Media mavens, Feiping graces the cover of Adore magazine, out now with the October issue of Prestige magazine. 

Have known this lovely gal for years and she's super cute, super fun to work with.

As I type this, over 80,000 people follow Fei - and her curated social media posts. 

She's very clear on her likes and dislikes, and she knows her fashion. There's a reason brands love her, photographers adore her, stylists and esp the papz.  

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Prestige magazine's latest cover feature: October 2021

 

Shot on Sept 1, out by October, Kevin Poon graces the cover of the latest Prestige magazine. Was good fun to chat with the star of the cover and after its initial release, we somehow seemed to have ruffled a few feathers. Hmm. Good. 

Big shout out to Hong Kong photographer Ricky Lo for yet another stunning cover. 

And the good people at Louis Vuitton in Hong Kong for the wardrobe and accessories. 

Death of an Indian Icon: A nation mourns the loss of Bollywood legend Sridevi

On this day, in the year 2018, legendary actress, star of a whopping 266 Indian films,  Sridevi died in Dubai, a case of fatal "accidental drowning," that sent seismic shockwaves through fans of Bollywood and Indian cinema.

A life-long fan, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing the actress for a cover story for Post magazine back in 2012. 

You can read the entire feature in the archives at SCMP.com here. 

TBT: Behind the scenes of a Lifestyle magazine cover shoot

Behind the scenes of a Lifestyle cover shoot - decked in Dior... 

One of the best cover-shoots EVER with Olivier.  

Fashionable Friday: Hong Kong's Celebrity Designer Barney Cheng

Wowsa. I've been working with and featuring Barney Cheng for the past 16 years. He's always a joy to work with - but especially to talk to. So funny and fun.

Have featured Barney Cheng Couture (Yenrabi Ltd) in several cover shoots, feature shoots and more too. Some of that here below from google search!

Indubitably, Hong Kong's most famous designer, did an anniversary special feature on him for Prestige magazine. Our longest chat and longest feature and shoot, and Celina Jade popped by for support.

Good times.

Outtakes: Cover Shoot: David Oshry in Armani: Outtakes from Runway magazine cover for Prestige

Runway cover shoot; David Oshry in Armani.

Options that we were considering before making the final selection. Standing mid traffic or in motion...

South African model - based in Hong Kong - for Runway magazine cover shoot, for Prestige 

Pictures by Olivier. Of course. 

Behind the Scenes: Magazine cover shoot

The crew behind Lifestyle's cover shoot. My last cover shoot with my dream team.

TBT: Cover story with 'the' Megan Fox

So apart from being ridiculously beautiful, actress Megan Fox was a great interview. Colour me surprised! If you've ever seen Megan Fox on chat shows, she's got great banter - a skill set I greatly appreciate esp when tight on deadline and have an intimidating page count to work with. We spoke for hours and she was endlessly entertaining and fun. And yeah, she looks like every pin-up dream at the same time.

The cover story was great fun - she was great fun. Fanx.

Read the full feature at Prestige online.

Prestige, June 2019

My cover feature with Richard Ekkebus - out now. June 2019.

Pls read the entire feature which is now online here at Prestige's official site.

For Online exclusive, this Q&A is up too: 12 Questions with Chef Richard Ekkebus of Amber

Shot by Nic and Bex Gaunt for the first time for Burda. They were soooo much fun to work with.

The chat was great too - chefs with a sense of humour I can totally dig. Especially when the chef is exceptional like Ekkebus.

More in print - and at PrestigeOnline.com - so do check it out.

TBT: The Power of Beauty

Hong Kong MTR fashion. Goals.

Final shot by Dino Busch...

Below, behind the scenes;

Chillin' with Yana. 

Lifestyle 2019 by Prestige Hong Kong

 

It's here! On sale in newsstands for the rest of the year, the annual tome published by Prestige Hong Kong. 

Worked with Dino Busch for the cover shoot (three years in a row with Olivier before) as Dino - Jess - and I all started working together x years ago and we are a trio that cannot be broken! lol. Have to say its one of my fav Lifestyle covers... EVER. Apart from looking great on newsstands everywhere (for the whole year! woot woot!), the entire team involved was so great that pulled it all together. 

 

My Editor's page - which people generally skip over - below! 

Glad Tidings

The volume you’re holding is an annual accompaniment to Prestige magazine, a new-year tome that is now a decade old. By the time we collate these pages it seems more than apposite for our editors to reflect on the year gone by, and as such we review here for you the best society events of 2018 (page 20) featuring the year’s most fabulous parties, and we present the finest hotels, bars, restaurants and spas sampled by our roster of wordsmiths (“The A List”, page 92). Our penultimate page is a tongue-in-chic recap of the year’s pop culture and celebrity antics (“That Was 2018…”, page 104), putting a humorous cap on the Year of the Dog as we step into the auspicious Year of the Pig. 

According to my feng shui mistress Thierry Chow (what, you don’t have one?) it’s a year of good fortune and luck as the Pig occupies the last (12th) position in the Chinese zodiac. And good fortune and luck is just what we wish our young and gorgeous cover stars, actress Jessica Jann and entrepreneur Kenneth King, as they embark on a lifelong journey together as a newly married couple. The day this magazine comes hurtling out of our printer’s vans and on to newsstands, the duo will be walking down the aisle – and we couldn’t be happier for them. Months ago, as they recounted their romantic journey, smiling and gazing into each other’s eyes – even when our photographer didn’t instruct them to – we got a little misty for young love and new beginnings. Our jaded, crusty and calcified heart skipped a beat – and I’m sure yours will too.

Have a prosperous and productive new year – according to the stars aligned, it’s a great one for making and investing money. We wish thee glad tidings dear reader, glad tidings indeed.   

P. Ramakrishnan

Editor

The entire cover story and shoot is up at PrestigeOnline.com

Prestige Hong Kong: The September Issue with Jon Kortajarena

Prestige Hong Kong: The September Issue with Jon Kortajarena.

Photography Oliver Yoan

Production Alex Aalto

Styling Hannah Beck

Hair and Make-up Oscar Alexander

Prop Styling Karina Valentim

Styling Assistant Hannah Shams

Lighting Dragos Czinjepolschi, Anne Marie Serian and Kes Kestutis Zilionis

Check out my chat with Jon K at  PrestigeOnline.com 

Meanwhile, Behind the scenes:

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