Over the past few years I’ve come across quite a few Voodoo Market posters (it takes place every once in a while – twice a year or something like that?) It’s an arts/crafts/vintage/designer market, check it out here: http://voodoomarket.wordpress.com/. The next Voodoo Market (organised in cooperation with Hamburg-based Mädelsflohmarkt ) will take place on Saturday, 8th June 2013 from 1pm to 8pm at Urban Spree (another location I’ve been meaning to visit!) and I fully intend to go this time!
Globe-M: “Agoraphobia” exhibition at Tanas gallery – article
Tanas gallery is opening a new exhibition soon: “Agoraphobia” takes a look at the multi-layered connections between collective public action and urban public spaces: www.tanasberlin.de/index.php?lang=en&nav=vorschau – it’s the opening exhibition for the 13th Turkish Biennal art show in Istanbul. Continue reading
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Asian colourants: Liese, Schwarzkopf & Beautylabo
I came back to Berlin from my travels in Asia with some 45 kilos of luggage. An additional 5 kilos (mainly face masks, teas and dried flowers, together with plastic Daiso odds and ends) are still in transit via surface mail from Singapore and should arrive in about two months or so. And about 15 kilos of the luggage consisted of cosmetics – including three really cool hair colourants which I bought in Thailand. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Bangkok: Niche beauty from Thailand
I just came back from a short trip to Bangkok where I did some sightseeing, met up with friends and ate as much papaya salad as I could. And of course I also went shopping! Bangkok has some jaw-dropping malls, like gigantic Centralworld (which includes the rather cool Zen department store – this is the store that was damaged by fire together with a part of Centralworld during the riots of 2010 and on my last trip to Bangkok, 2011, it was still being renovated). Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: [Company Profile] The Daiso empire
Ever so slightly off topic (since Daiso’s not a Singaporean company) but what the heck, it’s my blog and I can write whatever I like!
So now you’ll be hearing about one of my favourite Asian retail chains ever: Japanese household goods discounter chain Daiso. I discovered Daiso during my first trip to Japan (well, my first trip to Japan as an adult) and immediately became a fan. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: 7-11 travel-sized C&T
The 7-11 convenience store chain over here has introduced a very attractive way of presenting travel sized cosmetics – slim towers of small cardboard boxes filled with cosmetics from a wide range of brands. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: Masked beauty
One of my favourite Asian product categories is face masks and more precisely, foldable cloth masks. It is by far the popular mask format over here and virtually all the brands on sale are from Taiwan, Korea or Japan. Continue reading
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Retail notes from Singapore: Essence is in town!
For the last six years I’ve been regularly visiting Singapore. I go there once a year, usually for a month, staying with a friend of mine and taking brief side-trips into the other countries in the region. No matter which country I go to I always spend a lot of time in stores and shopping malls to check out retail trends (also, all of SEA is hot and humid and I like aircon!), and to simply enjoy the Asian mall experience. Continue reading
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Mintel article: Saint Charles Pharmacy Berlin
Here’s the article I wrote about Saint Charles Apotheke for Mintel’s BPC website: Saint Charles Berlin. Enjoy! My April feature will be on niche perfumery store Belle Rebelle in Charlottenburg.
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Chinese film festival at Arsenal Kino: “Ein Lied um Mitternacht. Chinesische Filmgeschichte von 1929 bis 1964”
Arsenal Kino is still showing historic Chinese films as part of their “Ein Lied um Mitternacht” festival which runs until the end of March. I missed the first half of the film festival but I’ll try and squeeze in at least a couple of films next week. I’m off to Asia for a month just after Easter (Singapore and Bangkok!) so I’m quite busy with work at the moment. But how often do you get to see Chinese silent movies from the 1930s or political dramas from the 1960s? Exactly. This Sunday I’ll go and see “Uproar in Heaven”, an animated movie from 1964. Here is the cinema website with more details about the festival: www.arsenal-berlin.de/kino-arsenal.
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TRENDS. TRAVELS. AND BERLIN 