Trend-spotting at the Diesel and Coach parties

The night after the bachelor auction, I dragged my tired, baggy-eyed self to the Diesel party which was taking place at the Pop TV arena in Kowloon. Despite my low batt state, I forced myself to go simply because I knew I’d be missing one of the trendsetter events of the year if I didn’t. As I am responsible for the content of hiphongkong.com, I could’t afford to pass up the opportunity to get good pics for my website. It was an extra humid night and the queue to get into the party was a mile long. Tons of people were waiting in the sticky heat to get in and somehow it seemed a bit disorganized.

Once inside, people were seated for the fashion show in a room with a very long runway. As the room filled to the brim, body heat caused even more perspiration and one could smell the sweaty collective armpit of the audience. Celebs and luminaries abounded and pretty much everyone who was anyone in the fashion and entertainment biz was there including the founder of Diesel- Renzo Rosso (at least that’s who I think it was.)

The fall/winter collection wasn’t super exciting. Everything was in neutral colors- predominantly grey, beige, brown, creme and there were touches of leather and fur. There was a lot of layering, scarves, and tights and skinny jeans tucked into ankle boots or platforms. I didn’t find it particularly innovative, but it looked ‘cool’ and easy to pull off.

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The afterparty was held mostly outdoors with just the stage area being covered. Behind the stage was a massive light wall which projected different images from one second to the next. It made for an extremely cool backdrop.

The entertainment line-up included alterantive-rappers Paze Rock and Amanda Blank. They brought down the house and the people at the front of the stage were going mental. DJs Eli Escobar and Stretch Armstrong took to the decks afterwards. Though it was great fun, the humidity made being outdoors somewhat unbearable. On top of that, if you were dancing, you found yourself completely soaked by the end of it.

On the fashion tip, one of the overwhelming trends I spotted for summer is the unforgiving short shorts. Man, got to get to the gym to do some running and squats!  White with touches of neon was also very popular. There were also loads of people wearing black and white, stripes and even polka dots. The style was still very much a tribute to the late ’80s early ‘90s. Overall it was a very colorful party.This is the link to all the Diesel party pics:

http://hiphongkong.com/party-photos/hong-kong/diesel_2008.htm

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[endif]The event commemorating the opening of the Coach store in Central took place two nights later. This party was also extremely fashionable but in dressy way as opposed to an underground way.  It was a label whore’s dream. Time to dust off the Christian Louboutain shoes or the ‘special’ outfit you bought at Harvey Nics that you never had the occasion to wear! In fact, there were reports that Harvey Nics and Lane Crawford were jammed with people buying outfits particularly for this event- and boy were people dressed to the nines! Here are all the party pics. There's too many to post all of them.http://hiphongkong.com/party-photos/hong-kong/coach_2008.htm

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[endif]As soon as I walked in, DJ Tommy was on the decks and I already started to feel the groove. The crowd had the highest concentration of attractive people I had seen ever in one place in Hong Kong. It seemed like just about every model or psudeo-actress that ever blew through this town was there. There wasn’t a whole lot of conversing going on. It was mainly champagne-drinking, dancing, air-kissing and telling people how fabulous they looked. The event was a great photo op for my website. There was so much champagne flowing that at the end of the night one guy poured a bottle of Moet on another guy just to prove that ‘even regular blokes can bathe in champagne.’

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One of the highlights of my night was the John Mayer performance. I’m a huge fan of his as I’m learning how to play guitar and I love his music. He’s not hard on the eyes either- I must say- and hundreds of Hollywood starlets will agree with me too. I was up at the front row, singing along, feeling the music and screaming Woot! But I guess John Mayer was not impressed by the Hong Kong audience. I heard through the grapevine that he was sulking in his hotel room because his ego was hurt by the indifference of the audience.

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DJ AM- Nicole Ritchie’s stomach-stapled, ex chubby, ex fiancée was up on the decks spinning a bit later. He played all kinds of stuff even AC/DC and Guns and Roses! He didn’t look like he was having much fun either despite the gaggle of girls groupizing him at the front and taking pictures with their cell phones. Boy did he get everyone dancing though!

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[endif]The overwhelming trend at this party was dresses. Either mini or maxi-style (long to the bottom) Bold colors, especially yellow, seemed to be very in and one girl even dared to wear her gladiator white high-heeled sandal-boots! Wowee.