Water and Wine: Shanghai

Monday, June 6, 2011

DESIGNER BICYCLES

We don't know why, but we have this thing for bicycles.

We think it'd be so cool to go around in matching pink and purple bicycles with baskets in front, pompoms on the handles, equipped with loud horns. We especially love the vintage (or vintage-looking) ones, and we always take photos of them.

Osaka

Ho Chi Minh

Palma de Mallorca

Shanghai

Milan

Ho Chi Minh

Palma de Mallorca

Imagine how stunned we were when we saw this bike in Gucci Nanjing Road while we were in Shanghai. We seriously drooled over it.

Gucci Bike displayed at Nanjing Road in Shanghai

We know we're not allowed to take photos inside the store but we just had to sneak one shot for this bike. It probably costs as much as a Honda sedan, but then riding a Gucci bike is way cooler, isn't it?. If it's any consolation, you get free Gucci clutches. Haha.

Here are photos of other designer bikes we found!

Okay we're getting depressed now, gottta go!!! Bye!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

GREENHILLS AROUND THE WORLD

We find it a bit surprising that even in cities considered as fashion forward, freaky knock-offs still find their way into fashionable foreign shores. It’s also funny how you find some clever designs from the original mutate into a fake monstrosity. Say a Speedy wannabe with the chunky chains of the Stam bag all over, isn’t that scary? hahaha! Seriously, these are creations of design geniuses and they’re not priced as such for nothing. We’d rather buy local or brandless stuff than support those counterfeit producers. Jazzz saying!

Here are some photos we took during our trips. Let's start with an assortment of Hermes Birkins.

From simple knock-offs...