Ferretti Group Sets Sail With 6 Premieres at Cannes Yachting Festival

 

Sailing season kicked off with 21 boats showcased, including six premieres.

Early in September, Ferretti Group hosted its ninth private preview event at the Yacht Club de Monaco, where exclusive guests got to set eyes on—and some even trial on sea—37 boats, including seven premieres. On the following day, the Cannes Yachting Festival kicked off in style and with impressive sails as Ferretti Group took to the waters with 21 incredible boats and six grand premieres for the Custom Line, Riva, Wally, Pershing, and Ferretti Yachts brands.

Over the course of six days, the event provided the yachting group with ample opportunity to make waves, starting with the debut of the standout Custom Line Navetta 38, Pershing GTX80, Ferretti Yachts Infynito 80, the new Ferretti Yachts 670, Riva’s first full-electric powerboat, and the international yachting debut of Wally’s Wallywhy100 and Wallypower50.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

First Look: Chinese Haute Couture Designer Duo Pei Brings a Career-Spanning Collection to M+

Rihanna’s jaw-dropping 2015 Met Gala dress is on show in Hong Kong and the event is the hottest ticket in town.

At what point does fashion morph into art? Find out for yourself at Guo Pei: Fashioning Imagination, the first high-fashion exhibition at M+ in the West Kowloon Cultural District, where the dazzling body of work of iconic Chinese couturier Guo Pei is on full exhibit.

Displayed in five chapters, pieces of extraordinary size, shape, colour, conception, and gravity-defying execution have been brought in from all parts of the world. A gold-painted bamboo structure festooned with flowers, a Ming-dynasty vase-patterned and -shaped dress, headgear studded with jewels, an overlong red wedding gown and veil sparkling with sequins—there’s a cinematic and surreal look and feel to each piece, one that’s beyond wearable art.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

The gallery of images by Chris Yau. 

Robb Report Hong Kong Joins Hands with Hong Kong Tourism Board to Bring Inaugural Leaders of Luxury Summit to the City

 

Top business leaders and heads of luxury companies will convene in Hong Kong to discuss the direction of the global luxury industry.

  

Robb Report Hong Kong is excited to announce the debut of the Leaders of Luxury Summit, taking place in Hong Kong as the host city. With the welcomed support of the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the inaugural Leaders of Luxury Summit highlights the city’s position as a hub of luxury lifestyle and an important destination for international luxury brands.

Organised by Robb Report Hong Kong, the highly anticipated Leaders of Luxury Summit will be held at Regent Hong Kong from 26 to 28 November 2024. It is set to be the most exciting international luxury event to take place in the city this year. A host of world-class speakers and panellists are expected to attend the event for thoughtful discussions centred around this year’s summit theme, “Redefining Luxury Through a Global Lens.”

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

Pañpuri Sensorial Boutique Opens in K11 Musea With Launch of Hong Kong-Exclusive Range

The famed Thai wellness brand unveils its new holistic destination complete with a bespoke scent station and elite products.

Pañpuri’s sensorial boutique is now open at K11 Musea, and for fans of divine aromas, it’s heaven-scent news. Within the Perfumist’s Chamber concept, a curated smorgasbord of aromatic vessels is in full view, with magical potions and elixirs studiously placed in jars and housed in spaces carved in the walls.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Will Always Be a High-Interest Ultra-Luxury Property Market. Here’s Why.

Georgina Atkinson, a leading global real estate advisor, explains why the Hong Kong property market will never not be interesting and where investors are looking to next.

Real estate in any region is always worthy of inspection, a fine harbinger charting the state of the economy, mood of a city, and even demarking times of historical significance. Just ask Georgina Atkinson of Origin Private Office, who only works on prime global real estate and ultra-luxury properties for a clientele with global interest.

Several images, graphs, and reports on Hong Kong property and rental price indexes show dramatic highs followed by incremental dips, and, almost inevitably, staggering heights again. But if you take a step back, you’ll notice the overall arc, an incline that has grown exponentially over the past century. In a world with no surefire bets, dealing in property in Hong Kong has served UHNW individuals exceedingly well.

In conversation with Origin’s new Private Office, dedicated to “ultra-prime” real estate, Robb Report Hong Kong learns about how the company deals bespoke client services within the real estate sector to VVIPs.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

China’s Fine Wines Continue to Rise. Here Are the Best Ones to Try Right Now.

 

When it comes to the Asian fine wine industry, fame becomes her.

A few months ago, a white-glove gala affair attended by connoisseurs and critics saw some of the best wines in the world feted and awarded lofty titles. Among them, the best red, white, Chardonnay, Vidal, and so on were named in a grand total of 23 categories. Upholding international competition standards, adjudicated by a panel of 27 local and international critics, the deliberation was followed by a highly anticipated awards ceremony.

On the night, the highest honour was awarded to the Fei Tswei Marselan Reserve 2021. In fact, all the winners were Chinese, as Wynn Macau and Wynn Palace hosted the first-ever Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards in April of this year. As the biggest Chinese wine competition in the world—and what we hope will become an annual affair—the event created seismic ripples in the tipple industry, and many an epicurean from Europe and the Americas were paying attention to the hitherto globally unsung labels, vineyards, and locales.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s 51st Season Springs to Life with Virtuosos

The “young at art” are headlining the upcoming symphonic season.

Come 2025, one of the youngest conductors in the world will officially take his place as the music director designate of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) at just 25 years old. To open the orchestra’s 51st season, Tarmo Peltokoski and young violin virtuoso Daniel Lozakovich, 23, will headline two performances at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall on 5 and 6 September.

It is an exciting time for the HK Phil, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary and released the headline-worthy news revealing its next maestro’s identity. With global interest rising since the news broke, the musical institution maintains itself as one of the most reputable in the world, its young blood making for a leap in interest among music lovers of all ages, inspiring aspiring musicians and making classical music accessible to multiple generations.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

UPDATE: Concert is postponed due to T8. 

Sotheby’s New Maison at Landmark Chater Features Artwork Ranging From HK$5,000 to HK$50 Million, Encompassing a Timeline of 80 Million Years

It’s the reveal of a whole new world as Sotheby’s unveils grand canvases and antiquities at a new space redefining art and luxury in the heart of Central.

Sotheby’s has unveiled its new maison at Landmark Chater in the heart of Central, Hong Kong. A dazzling testament to the auction house’s finest curation of grand art, the opening puts divine Asian sculptures, rare books and first editions, vintage artefacts, large-scale ink drawings, paintings, diptychs, triptychs, rare antiquities, and a dinosaur skeleton on display to showcase the breadth of its collection. 

Sotheby’s has morphed what was once prime retail real estate—goodbye, Armani café, Armani Fiori, and more blue-chip brands that were housed there before—into a 24,000-square-foot exhibition and retail space; some of the collections on show within the salons (the first floor is divided into thematic rooms) are available now, others will eventually be auctioned off to a discerning global clientele at calendar-scheduled auctions.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

4 Stellar Summer Scents, From Tom Ford and Brunello Cucinelli to Dior and Versace

Splash on some top notes of citrus, vanilla, and jasmine.

The numbers are in—according to reports from The Washington Post, Euromonitor International, and Circana, not only has the multi-billion-dollar behemoth that is the fragrance industry recorded an august two-figure growth in 2023 as new designer bottles drop and reimagined classic scents return to the shelves, but sales of the US$64.4 billion (HK$502.25 billion) global fragrance market have been on a steady incline this year, too.

The Post’s analysis of this boom points to fragrance as the fastest-growing category in the beauty sector, thanks to men and first-time buyers driving the rise in sales and revenue of brands the likes of Chanel, YSL, Dior, Le Labo, Jo Malone, and Tom Ford, to name a few. 

Come September, the biggest names in the field—Jo Malone, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Chanel, and Valentino—will dispense their latest scents. In the meantime, taking top notes from the above-mentioned reports, we knocked on the doors of the most elite aromatic designers in the hopes of getting a whiff of what’s already in store this summer. From the classics (Tom Ford) to the fashionable (Dior and Versace) and the novel (Brunello Cucinelli ventures into scents for the first time), the following fragrances have us swooning.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

Mooncake Magic and Sumptuous Cantonese Dishes at The Peninsula Hong Kong

The time to relish in the delicacies of Mid-Autumn Festival—and partake in the festivities and feasts that come with it—is upon us. A key part of the occasion’s canon, the role of the once-humble mooncake cannot be overstated, and we turn to an icon, The Peninsula Hong Kong, to embrace the Mid-Autumn Festival tradition. 

Spring Moon, The Peninsula Hong Kong’s very own Cantonese restaurant, is a Michelin-starred jewel where award-winning chefs have created a fine balance between tradition and novelty for nearly four decades. Back in 1986, the culinary team of Spring Moon manifested what eventually became a local culinary phenomenon: the mini egg custard mooncake. The original recipe may have a Western-inspired filling, but the time-honoured cooking traditions are the same, making it a firm favourite. The treat is included in Spring Moon’s Mid-Autumn Festival offerings every year, whilst a limited-edition sesame paste mochi mooncake is also up for grabs this season. This mooncake flavour was created by Chinese cuisine executive chef, Lam Yuk Ming, as an homage to the steamed sesame and lotus seed paste buns that he enjoyed in his childhood,  

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

The 12 Hottest Menswear Looks, Trends, and Accessories of Summer 2024

 

One way to keep cool over the summer: check out what’s hot in stores.

Although images of autumn-winter collections have started to flood our inbox, the thought of wool-silk peacoats has the fashion desk sweating. In the early days of August, Hong Kong recorded its hottest day of the year—a headline threatened by new temperature records as we speak. So, while it is standard practice to feature fashion one season ahead, at this centigrade, we’re still looking at what’s in store right now to keep cool.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.

Celebrating 180 Years, the Penfolds 2024 Collection is an Oenophile’s Arcadia

 

It’s time to paint the town Aussie red.

180 years of brand history is nothing to sniff at, and Australian wine producer Penfolds is marking the special occasion with a stellar 2024 collection.

Aptly named the Penfolds 2024 Collection, the anniversary release comprises the fruits of Australia, China, the US, and France’s labours, featuring 25 wines made from the greatest vineyards around the world, sourced and produced under the multi-regional Penfolds house style. Under the guidance of Penfolds senior winemaker Steph Dutton, we at Robb Report Hong Kong had the opportunity to sample some of the finest reds from the collection, including the Grange, Bin 704, FWT 585, CWT 521, and Bin 389—a personal favourite—certifying our long-held belief that Penfolds is indubitably Australia’s premier vintner.

Read the entire feature here at Robb Report Hong Kong.