《BURBERRY PRORSUM @ AW2012 Collection》

BURBERRY PRORSUM AW2012 collection acted as the official announcement of some of London's trends - herringbone tweeds, stripes and the new emphasis on the hips. Pleated skirt trench coat, gathered-pocket dress coat, oversized collar fitted greatcoat, seamed bell-volume coat, cropped lock-front jacket, bell peplum jacket, gathered zip-front jacket, gathered shoulder fitted down jacket to follow.

There are some cute grey T-shirts with owls or partridge sketched on them. Giant military rib knit bomber with fur collar, compact bouclé structured rib puff sleeve knit with bow belt, wide cashmere rib knit with feminine shoulder and bow belt, cashmere cartoon animal crew neck knit, lofty off-gauge cashmere knit, cut-out collar and cuffs skinny knit are this season must have.

  

  

Understated yet entirely eye-catching in either block coloured leather or patchwork suede is the accessories that crowns glory to studded leather gloves, Fair Isle scarves, neck ties in polka dot, gingham or college stripes, and those classic flat caps that turn almost every model into a uniform chiselled face, all help to transform the very classic suiting into something more seasonal.

  

  

Country-living was key - tweed caps, cord skirts with flippy hems, belts, bags and even umbrella handles featured gold fox faces. Compact structured fan knit sleeve, giant military rib knit peplum hem t-shirt, mesh fine knit crew neck with bow, tie-waisted dress, gathered waist tailored dress, degradé gathered panel fitted dress, double twist-front dress, peplum pocket fitted skirt, dropped volume skirt, button-front smooth volume skirt, tuck-pleat boyfriend trouser, narrow flared trouser are some of the most desirable of the season.

  

 

Big bags are back and to be worn with skinny fit sartorial shirts, skinny leg turned-up hem trousers, pleated tab-hem tapered trouser, the exoticism are daring. As for that suiting it’s back to being sharp and slim with relaxing tailoring, it was sumptuous in colour and texture.

Playing on details are the sculpted shoulders, bow application, waist enhancing couture construction, hand draped gathering, heritage seam detailing, knitted bow belts, knitted colour block bows, animal graphic intarsias, animal intarsias and mesh intarsia.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

Cathay Pacific @ New Singature Chinese Dishes

Cathay Pacific introduced the new Signature Chinese dishes on its inflight menus recently. The dishes are followed the authentic Chinese recipes and tradition taste which have been specially created by culinary experts to be be enjoyed during your flight. The new dishes will be served to Business, Premium Economy and Economy Class passengers on selected flights from Hong Kong to long-haul destinations by featuring these Hong Kong specialities.

  

 

From August to October 2012, six selected dishes with be served . The <Slow cooked pork belly with preserved Hakka mustard greens>, <Wok-fried chicken with black bean>, <Hong Kong Styled Curry Prawns> will be served on Business and Premium Economy Class and whereas <Braised fish with ginger, spring onion, mushroom and steamed jasmine rice>, <Braised beef with tendon in chu hou sauce on steamed jasmine rice> and <Braised minced pork with eggplant in mild chili sauce on steamed jasmine rice> for the economy class passengers.

  

 

The first class menu includes the <Caviar & Balik Salmon "Tsar Nicolaj">, <Marinated sliced abalone served with chili soya sauce>, <Marinated butterfly prawns with peppers and green asparagus> followed by <Papaya with pork, almond, snow fungus and peanut soup>. As for dessert, there are <Hazelnut pudding with vanilla ice cream and raspberry coulis> and <Lemon cream Bavarois cheese mousse cake>. The signature dishes from menu are careful chosen and designed to capture the essence of traditional local Chinese cuisine in terms of cooking style, ingredients, taste and presentation. More dishes will be introduced in the coming months and the Signature Chinese Dishes will be extended to regional routes from November.

Cathay Pacific's wine selections are made in Hong Kong by a wine tasting panel that includes expert wine consultants. The wines sampled by the panel are flown straight in for he tasting to enable a true assessment of their merits, as some wines cope well with travel but others suffer badly from their long journeys. he tasters are looking for specific characteristics that ensure Cathay Pacific only selects the "wines that fly". The tasting panel is careful to aviod being influenced of intimidated by wine labels. All the bottles are concealed with a sophisticated cotton cover so that only an internal identification code is visible.

During a flight, the aroma of wine tends to be reduced while the tannin and bitterer flavour components are often more pronounced, so good characteristics for flying wines are a big fruit flavour, mild tannins and a balanced acidity. Depending on the types of the wines, their availability and harvest times, the airlines changes the wines on board between one and three times a year, but not all wines will be changed at the same time.The airlines carries more than 80 different wines, the cellar in the the selection ranging from France, Italy, Australia, United Stated and New Zealand, just to name a few to go with its wide variety of inflight cuisine. There is in addition to seasonal wine promotions offered inflight on selected routes promoting top class wines of lesser known regions with excellent success.



《Naomi Watts Wears Prada》

Naomi Watts carries a Prada Nappa Gaufre bag at the Venice Film Festival recently. Casual yet chic, good choice Watts!



《SAVAGES》

It is dirty! It is violent and Yes! there will be lots of drugs, sex and blood! It has been a while since a serious intense violent of history film was made. Oliver Stone made a come back with his violent mystery suspense drama with lots of dramatic actions. With that, Stone did it well with the extravagant cruelty, just be prepared when you watch the film and best is with the right and good mood. Betrayal and dogs eat dogs are common in the savage world and indeed this film has it all. A very well chosen casts especially Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek portraying their notorious role with total cruelty. And yes, they are scary and you don't want to mess with them. The story was rather carried out without much boredom and this more than 2 hours film sure had satistified the audience with the alternative 2 endings. We are not a huge fans of violent, but boy this film will do you well, only when you are ready with the right mood.



《To Rome With Love》

Woody Allen's love trilogy comes to a blissful end with <To Rome With Love> featuring numerous scenic and romantic location brought to the giant screen. Four different story lines developed four different romancing tales but with no interaction fiction in between each story. Allen can't help but itching to play a quite important role himself in one of the stories portraying a retired musicians who came to Rome to meet up with his future in laws. He was then discovered the in law to be who has a talent in opera singing and try to make him a singer on stage. Allen's surrealism implied different level of humors when things develops, he put that into the other 3 stories with all begins trivia matters in life. When the snow ball keeps rolling, troubles find its way to everyone. This romance comedy may not be Allen's best but for this love trilogy conclusion, it was quite an happy ending before his next genre produced. Oh well! at least this was happened in Rome, the eternal city full of eternal possibilities.