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
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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Beauty International 2013: [Show Report]
Beauty International 2013 in Düsseldorf was very busy indeed, with 1250 exhibitors from 41 countries and some 50,000 trade visitors. Like most FMCG trade shows Beauty is an order show but – and this is what I love about it! – it also has a direct sales area. Continue reading
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Off-Topic: Düsseldorf cafés – personal favourites!
Relax Café and Toykio!!! Whenever I go to Düsseldorf I always try and visit these two cafés which are on Immermannstrasse, right in the middle of “Japan Mile”. Düsseldorf has a very large Japanese community and most of the Japanese restaurants, cafés, supermarkets, book stores, bakeries and so on cluster along Immermannstrasse and the surrounding streets. Continue reading
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Beauty International 2013 – trade show in Düsseldorf
This week Beauty International (trade show website) kicks off in Düsseldorf, Friday 15th March to Sunday 17th March. It’s the biggest German C&T trade show for the salon, institute and spa sector and takes place every year in conjunction with Top Hair International and the Makeup Artist Design Show – all of which pretty much guarantees a colourful and stimulating atmosphere. Continue reading
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Exhibition: “between appropriations and inventions”: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Kunstquartier Bethanien
I went to see the new exhibition in Kunstraum Kreuzberg yesterday – “between appropriations and interventions – realities/conditioners/positions/transformations” which was opened this Friday. Continue reading
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Künstlerhaus Bethanien – new group exhibition
Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg is a very exciting arts space and they’ll be opening a new exhibition next week: five of the grantees of the International Studio Programme (an artist-in-residence programme) are showing their works: Gerry Bibby from Australia, Michael Lee from Singapore, Erina Matsui from Japan, Jasper Sebastian Stürup from Denmark and Marie Zolamian from Belgium. The vernissage takes place on Thursday, 28th February 2013 from 7 to 10 pm. The exhibition will run until 24th March 2013: exhibition website
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Exhibition: “New Kids On The Block” at Tanas Gallery
Tanas Gallery in Heidestraße is opening a new exhibition in March – New Kids On The Block, curated by artist Ayşe Erkmen. The group exhibition is showing the works of 22 young artists from seven countries – check out the exhibition website: Tanas; it looks very exciting! The vernissage is on Friday, 15th March 2013, 6 to 9 pm and the exhibition will run until 11th May 2013. I’ll have to give the opening a miss since I’ll be in Düsseldorf at a trade show (Beauty International) but I’ll definitely visit the exhibition.
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Retrospective: Keisuke Kinoshita at Arsenal Kino
Arsenal Kino is currently showing a retrospective of Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita (1912-1998) – until 28th February they are screening six of Kinoshita’s most famous movies, five of his more unknown films are shown during the Berlinale film festival which is kicking off today! Continue reading
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TRENDS. TRAVELS. AND BERLIN 