My Interim Bureau over the next few days is a very different place from the dazzle of Cannes but on a personal level offers incalculable riches that a swanky city on the French Riviera can never match.
Airports
A celebration of speed and sumptuous Qatari hospitality
We are on location for a sporting weekend like few others in the company of Qatar Airways and Qatar Duty Free.
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Events
An All Blacks roasting and a BW Confidential toasting
Our schedules are jam-packed throughout the week and thanks to that and the fact that news from the rest of the world will continue to pour in over coming days, we really will live up to our moniker of ‘the website that never sleeps’.
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Events
Sunrise in Shanghai, tenderness in Tokyo; and the cream of the crop with Sōmrus
I’m up, up and away again on one of those aircraft, on a 16-hour, 8,045 mile flight to New York, the first leg of a two-week journey that will in six days hence see me in Cannes for the TFWA World Exhibition.
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Events
Sunrise turns 24 years young; we reach a sprightly 21; and FAB rocks in Bangkok
I have known Sunrise Duty Free Founder and General Manager Fengyi Zhang for most of those 24 years and am always struck by her kindness and grace when we meet in China or at TFWA’s Cannes and Singapore shows.
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Events
Feeling bleu in Paris but absolutely FAB-ulous in Bangkok
“Allez les Bleus!” I guess the nice immigration officer woman at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport couldn’t help herself when she saw the kiwi on my cap.
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Events
Turning black and blue in the City of Light
Black meets blue, the very same colours that the players’ bodies will bear after what will no doubt be a fearsomely physical encounter.
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Travel
Get your KIX on route 56 (84)
In fact the greatest threat to air safety on this flight might be being hit by a shopping bag as the passengers alight. Still, look on the bright side. It would be an appropriate way for me to go.
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Travel
Meeting a guardian angel called Maki at Tokyo Station
For a moment prospects of recovering my laptop seemed between slim and none. And slim, like my train, had just left town.
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Events
Discovering Malin+Goetz – difficult to pronounce, easy to use
“What attracted me to the brand is that our customer is someone who is not a beauty junkie, per se, they actually want to really experience life.”
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Beauty
Exploring new dimensions at a DFS masterclass
“Beauty is a big, exciting space to play on. So many brands, so much newness happening.” But it’s what you do with that space and those brands that counts and not for the first time DFS has put on a masterclass.
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Promotions
How CDF created a new style of duty free gift-rapping
Hey presto, like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, with the adept deployment of a strategically placed dot CDFG created Dottie as an emblem of its world-class shopping offer.
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Events
Creating unforgettable memories with Maison Margiela
Chris Lee, delicate, almost bird-like in her androgynous beauty, was the star of the show, generating a rapturous reaction from hundreds of fans gathered for the event launch.