Christian Louboutin Struts Into Shanghai Centre Plus Shanghai Centre News and Events Recap
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spring 2012 Christian Louboutin struts into Shanghai Centre plus Shanghai Centre News and Events Recap Reading All About Life at Your Doorstep in this a message from issue management 3 a message from management Greetings residents and tenants, Improving the quality Welcome to the premiere issue of our newly-redesigned magazine, featuring of life at Shanghai Centre more information and more pictures of...YOU enjoying life at your doorstep. Each issue showcases a hot new topic as seen through the lens of Shanghai Centre. This first issue zooms in on a perennial favorite - FASHION, as we reveal the first, and so far the only, Christian Louboutin boutique in China...located where else but right here at Shanghai Centre. To the men out there who aren't dialed into 4 Shanghai Centre News the fashion scene, Christian Louboutin is the world's most sought-after shoe designer whose trademark red-soled stilettos can easily cost over RMB 30,000 Snazzy New Lift Lobbies a pair. (So be careful if your wife were to ask you to choose between a trip to Europe or a pair of shoes at Shanghai Centre for her birthday gift!) Shanghai Centre I'm also excited to announce the imminent opening of three new F&B merchants Management Office: for your culinary enjoyment: Crêpes & Co will be serving their decadent name- 6 COVER STORY Suite 710, 1376 Nanjing Rd. West, sake products starting late March. You can wash down your crêpes with a warm Shanghai 200040, P.R. China pot of tea over at Wang De Chuan Tea House. And we have also closed the doors Louboutin Struts t: (86 21) 6279 8600 f: (86 21) 6279 8610 to Hanagatami to make way for an authentic and modern Japanese restaurant experience this summer. With so many amazing choices, why go anywhere else Into Shanghai but Shanghai Centre to satiate your cravings? Kurt Sigouin For our apartment residents, we have recently opened a comfortable Reading Property Service Director tel: (86 21) 6279 8600 x 6579 Lounge where they can unload their stress in a tranquil environment, complete Shanghai Centre Events Recap with OSIM massage chairs, delicious Italian coffee, loads of interesting books, 8 and a warm fireplace. My team and I hope that you continue to enjoy our on- Shanghai Centre Events Schedule going efforts to improve the quality of life here at Shanghai Centre. Jenny Jiang A lot happened... Customer Service Manager Thank you. tel: (86 21) 6279 8600 x 6627 A lot more happening... Byron Kan General Manager Tomoko Ueno Japanese Customer Relations Manager 10 Shanghai Centre Retail News tel: (86 21) 6279 8600 x 6678 The latest Shanghai Centre Alex De Ceuster Marketing Director Fashion Trends tel: (86 21) 6279 8600 x 6615 春らしい季節になりつつありますが、皆様いかがお過ごしでしょうか。 早いもので、あの大震災から1年が過ぎました。まだ、被災地で安全な生活ができない 方がたくさんいらっしゃるという現実に心が痛みます。被災地の1日も早い復興を心よ Production りお祈り申し上げます。 11 Front Line Profile Design / Layout / Printing: Green Light さて、上海商城内のスターバックスがリニューアルされます。3月中旬~下旬頃にオ Winky Speaks Visual Identities ープンの予定ですので、新しくなったお店でおいしいコーヒーを是非お楽しみください。 [email protected] また、お隣のクレープレストランも同時期にオープン予定です。お食事からデザート まで、色々なクレープをお召し上がり下さい。 Just for Kids Young Chefs Copy Editor 上海商城では、3月、4月も様々なイベントを企画しております。毎月のコーヒーモーニ Richard Baimbridge ングやファーマーズマーケットも再開されます。その他、イースター祭や金橋マラソン in the Making 大会への参加等、皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。 この時期、日本に帰国される方、また上海を離れる方が多くいらっしゃると思います。 A NEW LOOK for Please direct all enquiries to: 今まで上海商城にお住まい頂き、ありがとうございました。皆様の今後のご活躍とご spring 2012 [email protected] 健康をお祈り申し上げます。また新しくご入居される方はにつきましは、どうぞよろし the Shanghai Centre くお願い申し上げます。 newsletter. www.shanghaicentre.com 何かお困りの際は、カスタマーサービス(内線:6666)、もしくは私、上野(内線:6678) Have you noticed our new look? With a cleaner までお問い合わせください。 layout, larger photos and easier to read text, we hope you look forward to reading us every Christian Louboutin quarter. Any comments? 上海商城 struts into 上野 Shanghai Centre plus Email us at: [email protected] Shanghai Centre News and Events Recap Cover photo: Marie Taillefer Reading All About Life at Your Doorstep 3 Shanghai Centre news NEW Kids On The Block The management team would like to warmly welcome Mr. John Rolfs, General Manager, Mr. Charlie Zha, Hotel Manager and Eddie Wong, NEW Office lobbies Director of Sales & Marketing. Mr. Rolfs has been The renovation project of the Office lobbies with the Ritz-Carlton group for more than 19 (level A to level 7) is now halfway completed, years. He will be joined by Charlie Zha, a with the East lobbies already finished. The new, Shanghai native who has been with Ritz-Carlton ultra-modern design completely redefines the for eight years, and most recently from Key arrival experience. Biscayne, Florida. Eddie Wong joins the hotel having been with The Peninsula and Renaissance If your office is located in the West Tower and chains in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. you're curious to see what the new lift lobbies will look like, pay a visit to the East Office Tower. You will be pleased. NEW Resident Reading Lounge Check out Shanghai Centre's exclusive new plush resident reading lounge! Take a break and relax NEW Merchandise Shop in a tranquil "chalet-style" environment with com- Reading Lounge has Shanghai Centre is excited to announce the fortable sofas, a TV, a warm fireplace, OSIM massage two OSIM chairs for opening of the Shanghai Centre Merchandise Shop. chairs, iPads with Sennheiser headphones, an extensive your comfort There's something for everyone: mugs, golf balls, library and complimentary Italian coffee & cookies.. umbrellas, bathrobes, binoculars, luggage straps We hope you enjoy this new amenity! and even travel adapters. This is a great opportunity to stock up on last minute travel supplies or to pick up a little souvenir to give to relatives and business associates. A display case with all the items is located at the Shanghai Centre Management Office, Suite 710. Coming soon… Amateur Our latest addition to the Shanghai Centre f&b Basketball Games scene, Crêpes & co. will offer a wide selection With spring just around the of traditional and creative crêpes, delicious corner, all residents are authentic home-style Mediterranean recipes and invited to join in for some flavors to entice and soothe your taste buds, all healthy sports action: a served with a genuine smile. Crêpes & Co is located weekly basketball game! at the West Retail Plaza, between Din Tai Fung & This is a great opportunity Starbucks, and is scheduled to open late March. to relieve the day’s stress Later this spring, we will also warmly welcome and shoot some hoops with Wang De Chuan, a Taiwanese tea company with your fellow residents. a history of over 150 years, selling only the finest All genders and talent levels Chinese tea to its valued customers. The tea-house are encouraged to will be located next to the West hotel entrance. participate. We will play at the outdoor recreation area Singapore Food Festival on Wednesday evenings, If you love food from Singapore then check out from 8:30pm onwards the Shanghai launch of Singourmet Food- The exact starting date Festival, March 24~25 at the Shanghai Centre will be announced soon! Exhibition Plaza. There will be video walls show- casing chef-demos, sample & interaction booths, products for sale, and much more. Don’t miss it! 5 Christian Louboutin By Richard Baimbridge someone who’s such an unabashed perfectionist, Today, Christian Louboutin is unrivaled as the most Says Sex Appeal Starts at the Feet Christian Louboutin seems uncharacteristically relaxed influential shoe designer in the world. Thumb through and down to earth – especially relative to his peers in the pages of any fashion or celebrity magazine and the fashion world who tend to be almost comically you’ll see them on the likes of Oprah Winfrey, fussy and demanding. Louboutin brushes off things like Angelina Jolie, Christina Aguilera (who wrote a song Paris Fashion Week (the very raison d’etre for others about her Louboutin stilettos) and Sarah Jessica in his line of work) with a dismissive shrug, hesitating Parker (who featured Louboutin prominently in to even identify himself with the rest of the fashion Sex and the City 2). world. Yet it’s a world which he presently sits atop So what’s all the fuss about? Well, in a word, confidently and rather casually, eating red grapes and as Louboutin would proudly tell you himself: “sex.” sipping champagne on a chaise lounge, twirling a black “I think that shoes are connected to something stiletto on his finger by its leather strap. It’s not that quite sexual,” he says. “They change a woman’s body he’s being smug, it’s just that that’s really how he is. language. They change a woman’s attitude so that she Louboutin has plenty of reasons to be happy these becomes conscious of the body. Louboutin claims that days. His designer shoes sell on average for 5,000RMB the ultimate consumers of his shoes are, in fact, men. a pair, with customized shoes going for 45,000RMB or “When a woman buys a pair of shoes, she never more. And he sells about 800,000 pairs a year world- looks at the shoe,” he says. “She stands up and looks wide. One particularly special pair featured soles in the mirror, she looks at the breast, the [buttocks], made of real rubies. With China’s booming market from the front, from the side…The core of my work for luxury goods, it’s no surprise Louboutin decided is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing to come East, opening two stores in Beijing and men.” Indeed, the magic of Louboutin heels is that Shanghai, the latter located on Xikang Road at they make a woman’s legs appear longer, and change Shanghai Centre. the shape of her body, emphasizing the breasts and But even Christian Louboutin has a temper. And accentuating her bottom. “I haven’t yet met a woman when fellow designer Yves St.