STYLE-TREND-WATCH from Accidental Chinese Hipsters, now in the reality of 2012 and riding the newbornest waves of color-based mind-ripping to the pale, sandy shores of Internet connections from Shanghai to Albuquerque. Just in: photogs Michael Prenner and Herbert Hippmair are hailing ochre as, “THE color for the season. Especially in combination with blue and yellow.” They captured the image of this, “extravagant Cantonese version of Karl Lagerfeld,” while visiting Hong Kong’s Temple Market in Tsim Sha Tsui. As a personal testimony I will say that every time I look at his visage I feel like a better person with the potential to become 10% more fashionable, soon.
So, here’s to all of us becoming better dressed humans this year with the help of sunglasses-at-night style icons like the guy above, and let’s add a side of hope that bummer cultural policy initiatives from Chinese leadership will only serve to make this blog funnier as time goes by.
