LIFE & STYLE

life & style

As COVID-19 keeps fashion-industry movers in their offices and studios, a fashion extravaganza takes a digital path to their screens.

18 September 2020

Fashion is all about seeing and being seen, but COVID-19 is keeping the industry’s movers and shakers across Asia and the world in their offices and studios. More

Topics: Garments, Textiles & Accessories, Hong Kong, e-business, CENTRESTAGE

Audiences take control

Improvements in computer power and storage, exemplified by the cloud, turn the entertainment watcher into a participant.

11 September 2020

For most of history, entertainment comprised conversations as much as performances. Whether storytellers, bards or street acrobats, performers were up close and personal with their audiences and could react instantly to switches in mood. More

Topics: Film & Audio-Visual Production, Hong Kong, entertainment, filmart

Book Fair takes two tracks

Enhanced digital features augment this year’s event, long a fixture on book lovers’ calendars.

04 September 2020

One of the global internet’s earliest and most enduring success stories started out selling one core product – books. More

Topics: Books & Printed Items, Hong Kong, e-business, Bookshop

Reinventing design of business

Exhibition participation lets this designer show clients how to incorporate design into the business process.

28 August 2020

The word “design” often brings to mind luxury or decoration. More

Topics: Design Services, Hong Kong, e-business, start-ups

Fit for online business

Forced to shut physical premises during the COVID-19 pandemic, agile Hong Kong fitness studios have sprinted online.

21 August 2020

Fitness studios have seen such a strong member response to moves online precipitated by the COVID-19 outbreak that some have even discovered a new and potentially permanent income stream. More

Topics: Health & Beauty, Hong Kong, e-business, health

Freedom takes flight for jewellery designer

Flying-dove earrings demonstrate a creative take on this year’s competition theme.

14 August 2020

Widely recognised as a global symbol of freedom and peace, doves have taken flight on to centre stage in the 21st Hong Kong Jewellery Design Competition as a pair of earrings showing the birds escaping took top honours in the contest. More

Topics: Jewellery, Hong Kong, jewellery design

Creative mind healing

A Hong Kong studio uses art-therapy sessions to boost mental health and well-being.

07 August 2020

A masters degree in art psychotherapy and a firm belief in the power of creativity to heal inspired artist and entrepreneur Gigi Leung to set up an art therapy studio, Not a Gallery, in Fortress Hill on the north shore of Hong Kong Island. More

Topics: Health & Beauty, Hong Kong, health, art

5G powers up IoT

A host of sectors in Hong Kong are set to leap ahead by unleashing the power of AI on these freshly launched networks.

31 July 2020

Communications technology reached a historic milestone at the beginning of April this year as Hong Kong's fifth-generation mobile (5G) network was officially fully connected, linking all major communication equipment. More

Topics: Hong Kong, e-business, smart living

Wearable tech expo proves prescient

An electronics fair in London held on the eve of the COVID-19 shutdown featured many technologies that became boons during lockdown.

17 July 2020

Little knowing just how imminently contactless‑payment facilities and anything that digitally facilitated distance-working would be mandatorily in vogue, this year’s United Kingdom Wearable Technology Show took place in those long-ago phony war months, a time when it was blithely assumed some distant Asian ailment would never have the temerity to extend its tentacles to Europe. How little we knew. More

Topics: Electronics & Electrical Appliances, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, consumer electronics, wearables

Cannabis oil enters health market

A start-up sees growing demand for a cannabis extract that is getting a shot in the arm from COVID-19.

17 July 2020

From beauty balms to beverages, cannabidiol (CBD) products have surged in popularity after the natural product was legalised in Hong Kong in November 2018, with many extolling its health benefits. More

Topics: Health & Beauty, Hong Kong, e-commerce, start-ups

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