tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45406540278621394692024-03-07T12:48:19.964+08:00Bagfetish Unleashed!The Ultimate Designer Handbag Resource For Obsessive Compulsive Maniacal Fanatical Absolute Ultimate Bagaholics out there! You... yes, YOU! ;-)Bagaholic Babehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07544638027588443348noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-60636464273195979632008-08-07T00:08:00.002+08:002008-08-07T00:08:12.709+08:00The New Gucci Flagship - Now Open!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KZ3FT24B1WE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KZ3FT24B1WE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Located at 725 Fifth Avenue, the new Gucci flagship is the world's largest Gucci store and the company's grandest architectural endeavor to date. Boasting three glass-enclosed floors, this striking building - designed by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini and constructed in collaboration with celebrity architect James Carpenter - is the embodiment of Gucci's 21st century aesthetic. The space, filled with radiant natural light, rich materials and the iconic Gucci symbols, provides an elegant environment in which to browse Gucci's luxury products for men and women.<br /><br />Note: Check out the new <a href="http://www.guccilovesny.com">Gucci Loves NY</a> tote in the video!<br /><br />To find out more, visit <a href="http://www.guccilovesny.com">Gucci Loves NY today</a>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-71422925181991856192008-07-24T08:00:00.014+08:002008-07-25T18:17:43.742+08:00Newsflash -- Coach's First Global Flagship Store in HK!<a href="http://www.theedgedaily.com/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_4e5f776d-cb73c03a-9c8c3f00-d38c9c9e"><strong>Style: Redefining Design</strong></a> <br /><em>A store that mimics apartment space</em><br />By Anandhi Gopinath<br /><br />"Organised chaos", Reed Krakoff, president and executive creative director of Coach, says authoritatively. “It’s designed to look like organised chaos.” The scene before him is a huge rectangular table covered with jewellery, bags, purses, umbrellas and shoes. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rCBxEXgAn7EUGw9zaFasCMa_aoMXOiKYh5UFVLCUXzc599AgB3B81Y58LtLlBHMolrQx44zqnjlhUA0w0Er479sXXoCOafhIiN7W2itbe4dyVWp4YAsynbZzJa04lMcE76U3s1CWAHpk/s1600-h/coach1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rCBxEXgAn7EUGw9zaFasCMa_aoMXOiKYh5UFVLCUXzc599AgB3B81Y58LtLlBHMolrQx44zqnjlhUA0w0Er479sXXoCOafhIiN7W2itbe4dyVWp4YAsynbZzJa04lMcE76U3s1CWAHpk/s400/coach1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226570344537133794" /></a><br />The American leatherware company was launching its new global flagship store in Hong Kong in the company of a huge gaggle of regional journalists. The first thing that greeted us when we stepped in from the pouring rain outdoors was a warm blaze of colour atop a plain glass table. It was as if a young girl was getting dressed to go out, and not knowing what to wear, she had put all her stuff out on her dressing table. Cluttered, yes, but it was a deeply appealing display, nevertheless. The oohs and aahs could be heard from a mile off, and the high-wattage smiles of approval easily outshone the recessed lighting above. <br /><br />As it turned out, the description wasn’t too far from the truth as Krakoff went on to explain that the store was in fact designed to mimic the apartment space of a very young, trendy girl living the New York lifestyle. <br /><br />The latest of 13 stores on the highly populous island, Coach’s new home is special. What Krakoff calls the “newest iteration of our flagship prototype” featuring “the newest, most up-to-date collections”, the new global flagship store is to be a huge brand-building tool for the American leatherware brand. <br /><br />Taking a step away from their usual minimalist style, Krakoff and the Coach Architecture Group designed the 9,400 sq ft store to look a little more cluttered than is their usual way. The lower level consists of most of their newer products, arranged in a colourful array across the store. Classic pieces, like the Bleecker tote bag, sit next to the jewellery collection, which is just beside the counter for Coach’s new fragrance. Unveiled in conjunction with the launch, this is the first release of the fragrance outside of the US market. <br /><br />A curved, white staircase dramatically leads upstairs; where there are special pockets of space dedicated to particular lines of shoes, eyewear and outerwear. White sheepskin rugs break the monotony of the shimmery marble floor, breaking into private spaces to try on the vast variety of products that lie about. Many of us stopped to admire our reflections in the custom-lacquered, antique mirror with oxidised nickel silver accents, and rest our not-so-weary bodies on custom-designed furniture placed generously all over the store. <br /><br />It was becoming easy to understand the design philosophy Krakoff was referring to; we felt we were in someone’s trendy home rather than just a retail space. Yet, the respect for tradition is also distinctly apparent. For example, between the bags that are strewn about on the shelves, we see oversized gold turnlocks, a model of the clasp that is an icon of many Coach bags. <br /><br />Downstairs, there is what Krakoff calls a legacy wall, which features illustrations of New York, old posters, the brand’s horse and carriage logo, images of the current campaign, sketches and anything at all that serve as ideas for the current season. Which meant the wall would always have something new to add as newer collections arrive at the store. Everyone was deeply impressed, as Coach’s Queen Street store had achieved a retail feat few stores manage to do — it had become warm, welcoming and real. <br /><br />On the outside, Coach stands tall in the midst of the Queen’s Street clutter, with its glass and stainless steel backlit signature façade; it proved to be such a hit that tourists and Hong Kong residents alike were seen taking pictures outside the store that were sure to end up in some holiday scrapbook or on some mantelpiece somewhere. It had to be said that the location that Coach chose was a brilliant fit to the younger market Krakoff said the company was also trying to target — barely a hop, skip and a jump away is Lan Kwai Fong, the island’s elite clubbing area. <br />“In general, as we go forward, our stores will have a more residential feel; they are warmer with more decorative elements and are generally friendlier to shop in… that’s definitely the idea here,” says Krakoff in his trademark drawl. “We combined the idea of it serving as a retail space, and as a typical New York apartment.” <br />The new design of the store is the first of its kind in the world, hence Hong Kong residents are extremely proud to have the vastly popular American brand test out the new idea in their city. “The timing was great, really. The consumer here really appreciates anything new and anything fashionable. It was a great way to cement our position here. It’s also a geography we’re focusing on in the future,” he says. <br />Which is appropriate for them to do, considering that the brand, taking its cue from other luxury brands, has realised that the greater China is where the money is. “Hong Kong is an important destination for Coach as it is the gateway to Asia. Hong Kong is a leader not only in business, but also in fashion and lifestyle,” says Coach Inc chairman and CEO Lew Frankfort. According to him and Ian Bickley, president of Coach International, the brand intends to open another 30 stores over the next few years in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China and Macau, as they have identified Greater China’s potential to quickly become the third major market for Coach, after North America and Japan. <br /><br />In Asia, Coach has taken on a more aspirational positioning. “We do compete with the bigger European brands, but that happens globally, not just in Asia. What’s happened is that our product lines have become broader and broader, and we still intend on doing that to compete at low and high-end levels,” says Krakoff. <br /><br />The lines that have come out of Coach in recent years have been attributed to Krakoff’s revolutionary direction of the brand. Hired in 1997 from Ralph Lauren, Krakoff was given total creative control to oversee everything from store concepts to merchandising to product design. Eleven years later, Krakoff has hit his stride with a series of cult-status bags, expanding the product lines (Philip Lim designs trenchcoats for Coach while New York milliner Eugenia Kim does hats) and of course, designing fantastic new stores. Known as the Lagerfeld of his time, Krakoff has reinvented the slightly stoical image of Coach and made it cool. <br /> <br />Yet, he says, he relies on a slightly arbitrary design inspiration. “It’s a hard thing to talk about because it’s not deliberate. It’s very iterative and experiential... one thing always leads to another,” he muses. “You have to go far in one direction, then far in another direction and see how it feels. You start to build a vocabulary of stuff you can work with. When I first started at Coach, there wasn’t much — one type of leather, one material, that’s it. My next step was to develop fabric and material ideas, hardware ideas, signature detail… and the brand just grew from there.” <br /><br />Each product led to yet another collection, as the brand extended from bags to shoes to outerwear. Coach took its time to do this, as Krakoff is quite specific about letting things take their own course naturally. “Each product leads to the next, and you can’t do them out of sequence. There’s a time frame for everything, and we do it accordingly at each place,” he says. <br /><br />Personalised details like this exemplify the personality of the brand, as each market is treated individually. For example, when the store was opened in KL, Krakoff designed a beige limited edition satchel exclusively for the market. In Hong Kong, two new products were also launched. “People here love fashion so this was fun for me,” says Krakoff. “They love new brands and new ideas, they like to shop, so it was fun to design this sort of store and the limited edition products.” <br /><br />To be able to walk into a store and feel welcome, to be able to find anything from jewellery to key fobs to bags — whether you’re male, female, teenager or adult — takes a special sort of skill. It’s redefining traditionally held perceptions of what is stylish and what isn’t, or disregarding the it bag phenomenon for something that a customer would want to own forever. <br /><br />It’s a redefinition of style in every sense of the word. <br /><br /><br /><strong>The Newborns </strong><br />The Perry limited edition Ergo satchel in python and the MyNY tote, the two new products created exclusively for the opening of Hong Kong’s new global flagship store. Coach will also be donating RMB1 million and a portion of the store’s first-month sales to the China Red Cross Fund in aid of the Sichuan earthquake victims.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSx6pgbIyExDG0dx4ETZYeePgXxzXdBjcaWwJuB0z_NtfeQO_P7troIx8akQDPIScL407FnjxmeABYDuPlpPf1NIAfUz0BX4Dh7cST6FZcOY4IM7NxiV7G6v2KwW1aZskD5QDVdHTccBnd/s1600-h/coach3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSx6pgbIyExDG0dx4ETZYeePgXxzXdBjcaWwJuB0z_NtfeQO_P7troIx8akQDPIScL407FnjxmeABYDuPlpPf1NIAfUz0BX4Dh7cST6FZcOY4IM7NxiV7G6v2KwW1aZskD5QDVdHTccBnd/s400/coach3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226572461050325810" /></a><strong>Coach Perry Limited Edition Ergo Satchel in Python</strong>, <em>price unavailable</em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBgLVNifiEsDt23XgMks3Nf8E06ihgbgz8m6jTh_gA_woaJiGi9zQfXqaImU8ZETt7Azc8kBlun7-M5xVQN2ZLTkyB6xIDyoz93w7RVmK-INTO6ATM6BZhFLplrrBoArM8OLAkkOqSjGj/s1600-h/coach2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYBgLVNifiEsDt23XgMks3Nf8E06ihgbgz8m6jTh_gA_woaJiGi9zQfXqaImU8ZETt7Azc8kBlun7-M5xVQN2ZLTkyB6xIDyoz93w7RVmK-INTO6ATM6BZhFLplrrBoArM8OLAkkOqSjGj/s400/coach2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226572566120634066" /></a><strong>Coach MyNY Tote</strong>, <em>US$1,000</em><br /><br /><strong><br />Courtesy of <a href="http://www.theedgedaily.com">The Edge Daily</a></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-26477879367955323712007-09-20T15:51:00.000+08:002007-09-20T15:55:15.492+08:00Newsflash -- Pavillion @ KL Opens Today!Hello Fellow BagAddicts,<br /><br />For those of you in Malaysia, the <b>Pavillion</b> Shopping Mall located opposite Star Hill opens today! A high-end Parkson opens there today, along with Furla. Uber-Luxe Hong Kong department store, <b>Lane Crawford</b> is said to open there soon too!Bagaholic Babehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07544638027588443348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-19469596468334395492007-08-13T13:54:00.000+08:002007-08-13T14:03:04.396+08:00Review of new Jimmy Choo Store at KLCCI've been so busy the past month (also why I haven't been posting daily) that it was only last week that I finally paid the new Jimmy Store at Suria KLCC a visit after the store's opening in June. The Jimmy Choo Store has taken the space of what used to be Blumarine (they shifted to the floor above). Anyway, ecstatic that I finally get to see Jimmy Choo on our very own shores, the concept and layout of the boutique kept to true Jimmy Choo fashion, but there's one major letdown - the size of the boutique and the variety (or lack, thereof)! You'd have thought that being a Malaysian himself, the Jimmy Choo store would look a little grander than the rest around Southeast Asia, but nope, no such thing! Well, yes, I understand that probably we don't have such a big market unlike Singapore or Hong Kong (love the HK store!), but at least more selections should've been brought in! *whines*. I was in and out of the store in under 5 minutes, feeling very underwhelmed...Bagaholic Babehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07544638027588443348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-68205310649415553962007-07-20T21:14:00.001+08:002007-07-20T21:16:32.045+08:00Newsflash -- Louis Vuitton store now open in KLCCDear BagAddicts,<br /><br /><b>Louis Vuitton</b> is now open at <b>Suria KLCC</b>. The new Vuitton store is located at the Ground Floor. Hmm...now if only Fendi were to open a store at KLCC too, I'd be the happiest girlie in the world. LOL ;)Bagaholic Babehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07544638027588443348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-27478479288579915482007-05-12T21:01:00.000+08:002007-05-12T08:54:38.120+08:00Newsflash: Jimmy Choo Store Opening in KLCCDear BagAddicts,<br /><br />The wait is over! <b>Jimmy Choo</b> has finally reached our shores! The new Jimmy Choo Boutique will be open right here in the heart of the city, at KLCC next month! I can't wait! Can you? hehe <br /><br />Cheers,<br />Bagaholic BabeBagaholic Babehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07544638027588443348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-31519906034659282492007-02-16T08:26:00.000+08:002007-02-16T08:33:00.188+08:00Newsflash: +i.t. Store Opens in KLCC Yesterday+i.t., A very popular store in Hong Kong that sells Designer Clothing (men and women) and shoes has opened in KLCC yesterday. They carry haute 'radical chic' labels such as Just Cavalli (by Roberto Cavalli), D&G, GF Ferre (by Gianfranco Ferre), C'N'C Costume National and Galliano.<br /><br />Location: G14-15, Ground Level, KLCC<br /><br />Tel: 603- 23820315Bagaholic Babehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07544638027588443348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-69569162064285788302007-02-05T23:20:00.000+08:002007-02-05T08:57:09.374+08:00Newsflash: Launch of new LV store on Fifth Avenue to Celebrate its 150th Anniversary<b>Louis Vuitton celebrates 150 years of luxury <br />By Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune<br /><br />Tuesday, February 3, 2004</b><br /><br /><br /><br />Next week, a giant store, its façade scintillating with crystalline glass, will open on New York's Fifth Avenue — yet another reason for Louis Vuitton to celebrate its 150th birthday.<br /><br />The milestone year was ushered in on the Champs-Elysées with a gigantic re-creation of the house's chocolate-brown traveling trunk with gold initials. For the Chinese New Year, the house beamed a greeting in Chinese characters by satellite around the world, emphasizing the global reach of a company that Louis Vuitton, the son of a carpenter, founded in 1854.<br /><br />"We did not want to focus on one single event with a cake and candles, but to make people understand that after 150 years Vuitton is forever young, fresh and creative," says Yves Carcelle, chairman and C.E.O. of the leather-goods company and the man credited with leading its breakneck advance. Working with his boss, Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), Carcelle has made Vuitton the lifeblood — not to say the cash cow — of the luxury conglomerate. Its total revenue in 2003 was nudging €3 billion ($3.74 billion), a multiple of five over 15 years, each of which saw double-digit growth. Even more significant was the house's enormous increase in operating margin, to 45 percent in 2003, far ahead of competing brands.<br /><br />In his glass-walled office at the Pont Neuf, with a view sweeping along the Seine, Carcelle was analyzing what makes Vuitton an iconic name in the luxury world.<br /><br />"There are multiple facets," he says. "You can't reduce it to one word or raison d'être. There are eternal values, drawn from the past. The spirit of travel nourishes us. The roots are so strong. That is when the company's codes were set, when it was the elite who traveled.<br /><br />"The birth of Vuitton also marked the start of modern life," he continues. "It is not by chance that Vuitton was born in the mid-19th century, when the nature of travel was revolutionized. We are also celebrating 150 years of modern times."<br /><br />Louis Vuitton's first claim to fame was at a job packing crinolines for Empress Eugénie. He opened a Paris store in 1854 and his son Georges created the family business that captivated movie stars and maharajahs of the 1920's, creating hefty travel cases for stately steamer travel, then light bags for the jet set of the 1950's.<br /><br />The introduction of the famous "monogram" toile came in 1896. It followed the graphic "Damier" block print that Carcelle describes as "eternally modern." Yet it is those identifiable LV initials that attract the Japanese clients to the new Avenue Montaigne store in Paris and or to the "bag bar" at the new store in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills.<br /><br />Out of Vuitton's 10,000 employees, 3,600 work in 14 ateliers in France. Arnault, asked about the success of Vuitton, says: "It's the quality, because we do everything ourselves, from creativity through manufacture and distribution. We are the only luxury house to offer such quality at half the price of others."<br /><br />LVMH has been a pioneer in China (since 1992), which is now Vuitton's third largest market, and in India — its first store there opened last year.<br /><br />Yet the man with the vision to bring Vuitton to Japan was actually Henry Racamier, who married into the Vuitton family, took over the reins in 1977, engineered a merger with the Moët, Chandon and Hennessy liquor families, but ultimately lost the battle for control to Arnault in 1989.<br /><br />In Carcelle, who came to Vuitton in 1990, Arnault found an executive in perfect synergy with the brand — and the incarnation of its frequent-traveler spirit. Carcelle was at one stage the overall LVMH fashion honcho, but his heart and his success story is with Vuitton.<br /><br />"When you have a chance to direct a mythical mark, you remain viscerally attached to it," says Carcelle.<br /><br />With his genial character, bonhomie and wit — and a reassuringly untidy desk with anthills of files — Carcelle is the human face of corporate fashion. He had the same higher education as Arnault and then worked in textiles at Descamps. But he tells a revealing story about his first job as a salesman of cleaning products: On the road, he would send a female colleague ahead to ask for specific items, thus softening up the store owner for his cold call.<br /><br />Writ large, this is Vuitton's strategy, as new consumers who never knew they needed a Vuitton bag to go with a sari are brought into the fold. The Vuitton name was attached to the America's Cup yacht race (just as Silicon Valley billionaires were buying boats), to a monogrammed World Cup football (as David Beckham became a fashion icon), to Stephen Sprouse's "graffiti" designs (when "trash" fashion was cool), to Jennifer Lopez (plunging into celebrity endorsement) and to the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami's designs (following an Asiatic trend). To View these Ad campaigns, <a href="http://bagfetish-unleashed.blogspot.com/2007/01/fw2000-kate-moss-christy-turlington.html"> Click Here NOW! </a href><br /><br />In 1998, Marc Jacobs, a young and streetwise American designer, was picked to launch Vuitton fashion. Arnault describes Jacobs as "a perfect fit with Vuitton, like John Galliano at Dior." Gucci and Prada might have made fashion a promotional arm, but Vuitton found in Jacobs a designer who has an instinct for the moment, with clothes, jewelry, watches or purses.<br />*<br />Not everyone is so enthusiastic about Vuitton's success: Some accuse the company of turning a family business into a soulless corporate machine. One executive, who asked not to be identified, describes the monogram bags as "the biggest sleight of hand since snake oil," adding: "Can you imagine that this is all based on canvas toile with a plastic coating and a bit of leather trim?"<br /><br />Yet clients are eager to embrace the bags and to absorb their aura of luxury in stores that Carcelle says are now less homogenous and increasingly tailor-made — the flagship store in Tokyo's Omotesando district being quite different from the New York store on Fifth Avenue at 57th Street.<br /><br />Are there any obstacles to continued growth?<br /><br />Sources at Printemps Pinault Redoute, LVMH's rival luxury group, suggest that Carcelle and Jacobs have both been approached to fill the shoes of the departing Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole from Gucci Group.<br /><br />Friends of Jacobs's say he is restless, frustrated that his own New York-based label, owned by LVMH, is growing slowly. And a Manhattan source says that Lawrence Stroll, in the midst of building a luxury group, approached Arnault to buy out the Marc Jacobs label but was rebuffed.<br /><br />Asked whether he would ever jump ship, Carcelle declined to comment. Asked whether he ever felt that he worked too hard to generate huge profits that then went to support less successful brands in the LVMH group, the executive had a firm reply: "I am a good soldier."<br /><br />What of travel itself? The very myth that Vuitton has created of pleasurable voyages to distant places (the company even produces attractive city guides) is under threat from global fears and banalization. The glamour of travel, personified by an elegant Audrey Hepburn with Vuitton luggage, has been eclipsed by cheap-fare tourism.<br /><br />Fresh from a trip to India, Carcelle spoke up for travel. "I love traveling personally," he says, "the chance to meet people and to discover a different culture. As soon as we open a country like India, I want to understand it in a personal and professional way. And I never think of danger when I travel. If you accept that, the terrorists have won."<br /><br />The next land to conquer? South Africa. A Vuitton store is scheduled to open in Johannesburg late this year.<br /><br /><br />Source: International Herald Tribune. Article by Fashion Journalist, Suzy Menkes<br /><br /><br />To View the Louis Vuitton Ad Campaigns from 2000-2007 (featuring <b>JLo, Uma Thurman, Scarlett Johansson, </b> etc), <a href="http://bagfetish-unleashed.blogspot.com/2007/01/fw2000-kate-moss-christy-turlington.html"> Click Here NOW! </a href>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-47999743485996052852006-12-25T14:04:00.000+08:002006-12-25T14:23:12.615+08:00Photos: New Fendi Boutique @ StarHill Gallery, MalaysiaEarlier this week, I posted about the New Fendi Boutique at StarHIll Gallery in KL, Malaysia.<br /><br /> As I mentioned, Fendi boutiques all over the world look utilises the same store design concept as the Palazzo Fendi in Rome, launched in 2005. Here are some pics of the boutique!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIMa2QKJtZDK-C12cPyw8j1doVSW3L9ArOLiCJ2u0jCfKnBRCZ8gm4JipdhGYp9SavZHfKBImc3i9fGjEmlQeoUdTpt2a5qiLLredu_HRiP7F5PQchTgSoj_LRkfgkv4phLKFhFIVzsI/s1600-h/fendi+exterior.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIMa2QKJtZDK-C12cPyw8j1doVSW3L9ArOLiCJ2u0jCfKnBRCZ8gm4JipdhGYp9SavZHfKBImc3i9fGjEmlQeoUdTpt2a5qiLLredu_HRiP7F5PQchTgSoj_LRkfgkv4phLKFhFIVzsI/s320/fendi+exterior.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012343387037420722" /></a> Storefront of the New Fendi Boutique in Star Hill, Malaysia<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLnUgj_gUaVYR526gfyX6QrBr6K4Asmlkn2_utJ209m0B2oM_DnWKyCYYY7Qmma79UPet3E4MxrBZ8o4SEOPDSb4leUsTK6MbrANJy7hVHtRr0xltY1tVAm7p1hrIBCRQ-Oc5hXBo3u20/s1600-h/fendi+display+wall.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLnUgj_gUaVYR526gfyX6QrBr6K4Asmlkn2_utJ209m0B2oM_DnWKyCYYY7Qmma79UPet3E4MxrBZ8o4SEOPDSb4leUsTK6MbrANJy7hVHtRr0xltY1tVAm7p1hrIBCRQ-Oc5hXBo3u20/s320/fendi+display+wall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012343391332388034" /></a> Fendi's Display Wall<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuE3wYWHiXayVvd-KHeW6KymZfwGbX12nXGyCKyjgpBTw1HTLj0yVb5yvJmntLmmGS4PPI1YiJrtOvD7orrVMuW47keJjz0zrUPA6JEnoZGE5zTwXUKC96rt-6FfvCbMqBaKT59bfh_HI/s1600-h/fendi+interior+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuE3wYWHiXayVvd-KHeW6KymZfwGbX12nXGyCKyjgpBTw1HTLj0yVb5yvJmntLmmGS4PPI1YiJrtOvD7orrVMuW47keJjz0zrUPA6JEnoZGE5zTwXUKC96rt-6FfvCbMqBaKT59bfh_HI/s320/fendi+interior+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012343395627355346" /></a>Another view of the Interior of the Fendi Boutique<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivMsK_L7REBUNPDvjq_fahKb12knDiV72Msc1p0JpqRswHnXERbUgoLCs5JE8T0JROeIoPn24v62iBRRd1KZv1cMplAzYMkOiFll5nIx6QDj-nIo3vAQolMmoNTR4uX3dMq5ip8Cb6gaE/s1600-h/Palazzo+Fendi+Rome.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivMsK_L7REBUNPDvjq_fahKb12knDiV72Msc1p0JpqRswHnXERbUgoLCs5JE8T0JROeIoPn24v62iBRRd1KZv1cMplAzYMkOiFll5nIx6QDj-nIo3vAQolMmoNTR4uX3dMq5ip8Cb6gaE/s320/Palazzo+Fendi+Rome.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012343404217289970" /></a>Exterior view of Palazzo Fendi Building in Rome, Italy<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8XtDd1Hkxp-QRcxtwbzutBjYnqJ1gDU8qJICmeH9uRiuDC4k3jzo2mQP53DuKdYyZP1iB-DMCG3MD4jcJNl6352hSTR8l6JZ0hFLrWmBT_VA8zOzn2-ZwsCmGslX_pEBs8sa8HZRh0g/s1600-h/Fendi+Interior.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir8XtDd1Hkxp-QRcxtwbzutBjYnqJ1gDU8qJICmeH9uRiuDC4k3jzo2mQP53DuKdYyZP1iB-DMCG3MD4jcJNl6352hSTR8l6JZ0hFLrWmBT_VA8zOzn2-ZwsCmGslX_pEBs8sa8HZRh0g/s320/Fendi+Interior.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012343399922322658" /></a>The Interior of Palazzo Fendi in Rome, Italy -- notice the similarities with the Star Hill boutique above?<br /><br /><br /><br />All photos from <i>The Star, Sunday 24 December 2006</i> -- scanned by Bagaholic Babe<br /><br />To read about the Fendi Opening in StarHill, Malaysia, <a href="http://bagfetish-unleashed.blogspot.com/2006/12/newsflash-fendi-opens-new-boutique-in_23.html"> CLICK HERE! </a href>Bagaholic Babehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07544638027588443348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540654027862139469.post-23424054643881256232006-12-23T09:21:00.001+08:002006-12-23T09:29:06.446+08:00Newsflash!! Fendi Opens New Boutique in Malaysia!Dear BagAddicts,<br /><br />NEWSFLASH!! <br /><br />Fendi has relocated! <br /><br />Fendi just had its Official Opening at StarHill Gallery, KL Malaysia on Wednesday, 20th of December!! <br />It has moved to the Indulge Floor, taking the space of where Louis Vuitton's old boutique used to be, before Louis Vuitton moved to their new boutique. The new Fendi Malaysia boutique, like all Fendi boutiques all over the world, has revamped its exterior to resemble the original first Fendi building in Italy!<br /><br />I can't wait to head to StarHill to have a look for myself! And of course the new collections too since they now have a bigger space, even more collections will be on display! ;) *winkiez*<br /><br />Ahh..the things we must indulge in... heheBagaholic Babehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07544638027588443348noreply@blogger.com0