Sketches in Saturday Market

I feel sad these days, very tired. Everything not in a right order and goes messy, from my room to my heart.

busy starting in Milan

So busy after back to Milan, want to move out but no time to follow up the case. Want to go shopping in this season, want to meet my friends here for dinner. Still no sure about the places and the language here. Need to discuss about the project. Have to handle Hong Kong stuffs, new flatmate to move in. The time differences to talk with my mom.

Follow your heart in 2011

Follow your heart! Give it a room and time. You will know how to do! Great wishes to 2011!

Right Positioning

Carrian visiting my home tonight. I clean it up and capture some pictures as I am not sure when I will be back.

Talking and showing some ceramics to her, she encourage me a lot to develope more on artistic pieces of works. I am planning to bring more art materials to Italy, so I can start drawing again. we talking about positioning. She is a bit down as after a six months fashion course in UK and back to HK, she think most of her friends do not understand her.

People in HK move very fast, no time to explain, no time to listen, no time to imagine. She is brave, she changed her direction from advertising agency work to photography. Still an art director but applying more artistic approach to photography. Her new boss has a clear positioning, she is much international. And she accept and willing to let more people to help her to achieve the task. Not so much HK photographers willing to spend on this.

She is brave to take this chance, even cut her salary and reject a fashion job in UK. So go ahead, girl! Don't think too much! You also encourage me to position myself correctly.

Timing

Tomorrow I will bring my dog's used clothes, towls and some stuffs to donate. I hope more dogs have happy lifes.

When I touched the clothes that I bought to him, the feeling was strange and not easy to balance. I try to think positively so that I really can influence my mom. Indeed I know I cannot see him anymore, he was gone. I can remember the feeling to touch his hands, there are 4 sponges underneath. His hair was very soft, but he was too weak.

I remember walking with him, cycling with him and swimming with him. There was a lot of history related to my university life and the beginning of works. People and stuffs were pasting through my life forever.

I cannot see him again. Then I pray to God, please take care of him. Take care of my mom.

Now I realised that Timing is very important. Sometimes when people need help, we shall be there, don't think about next time, next better timing. Something cannot wait. Or we miss the chance to love and to be loved.

I want to tell my mom that Love is always here, I will always love her even I am not with her all the times. It is not easy to let Chinese understand, they always hope children always be with them.

Nice Shop

I like this shop, the atmosphere is alike Agnes' b. There are 2 floors, G/f is a cafe with nice window display and showing the clothes. 1/f is a showroom. No one on the 1/f so I can have my fitting sliently. I like some of the clothes as they have details subtly.

I finally bought one coat and I have a chance to talk with the designer, the boss of this shop. He told me the coat here mainly not just done by the textiles. But they start it from buying a yarn to costruct a textile and then make the cothes. I am suprised that they afford this complicated procedure. The cost is very high.

Indeed, I can see the designs are from a female and he told me he has another female designer to work on the design and he is now in charge of the Cafe. He is not really enjoy doing design but his mother was a famous pattern designer and she is around 80, so when his brother and he were small, they can really feel fashion.

His brother like economy and he in charge of the operation. I asked him if they have exported the goods to Japan as I am quite sure Japanese love this design. Indeed several years ago, some Japanese magazines took interviews to this brand/shop, so customers come from overseas as well.

Builing up and keeping a designer brand is not easy. Especially if designers need to handle the balance of cost & income, most of them hate to do admin. work. In the design strategic course, I have big doubt. That you cannot definate the brand/design is success or not if there are not realistic figure, index to support.

Designer can create great design, but need to substitute the number/ index or it cannot be successfully promote and sustain the brand into the market.

Indeed, I was so excited when I see some beautiful and artistic things. And I ask for internship here that he replied, "why not." I am not sure about Italian culture as one of the Italian professor told us, present doesn't mean anything, kisses means nothing. Then how to translate this wordings?