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.
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.
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Travel
How my encounter with Keanu Reeves passed by in a blur
And so my readers will just have to take my word for it and my colleague stay with her husband. Yes, I did meet, chat and have my photo taken with Keanu Reeves. But like my life in general, the moment passed by in a blur.
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Events
Home away from home in Hong Kong and reflections on the Singapore show
I can see our apartment but two red lines on a testing kit have been ensuring I cannot actually enter it since my return from France on Monday.
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Events
Buzzing like Korsakov’s bumblebee in Singapore
It’s great to be back in a city that shares the same nocturnal habits as my website.
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Events
Duty free but not free of duty in Taiwan
The sense of national and social duty, fundamental to the company’s ethos of the last 28 years, has never burned more brightly nor more urgently.