Beijing's Original T-shirt Brand

Last weekend at the exhibition centre in Beijing was tones of fun. Its the first time we’ve done a fashion show that wasn’t on Nan Luo Gu Xiang. Also the first time I have not organised every part of it myself, we had a company come in and do the whole thing for us so it was quite relaxing. I also gave a short speech to which all of a sudden there was hundreds of people all wondering what this lao wai was talking about on the Nan Luo Gu Xiang stage. After the talk was the catwalk. Here are some pics from the show.

I guess my tedx talk in Beijing must have hit a mark despite mentioning dildos. I’m being flewn down to Guangzhou to do another one, Tedx Guangzhou!  Not bad at all, I’m quite looking forward to this one as i was shitting my pants about keeping the talk within 20 minutes last time. So if you are in Guangzhou on December 5th and just happen to read this blog and might want to hear me talk then come along……please!

About every week I change the design on the front of our giant 8 shaped lightbox in the window of our store on Nan Luo Gu Xiang. Here are some pics from the last few weeks. Its a hope of mine that you’ll see something different everytime you pass our store there.

Yes its that time of the year, its the 4th China Beijing International Cultural & Creative Expo, quite a mouthful but its always good fun, last year Nan Luo Gu Xiang had a 150sm booth and we showed off all that is great about Nan Luo Gu Xiang. This year we have 250sm space and we got 8 of the best brands from the Hu Tong there to represent. The expo goes from Nov 26th to Nov 29th. Plastered has a store there and we will in fact be holding 2 catwalk shows as well all sponsored by the local government here so I am super thankful to them for that. I shall also be giving a couple of creative talks too on the Nan Luo Gu Xiang stage, talking a bit about the recent History of the Hu Tong and its affect on Plastered and Plastered’s affect on Nan Luo Gu Xiang. So the catwalk shows will be on the 27th and 28th at 1pm, It all happens at the international exhibition centre in town on No. 6 Bei San Huan Dong Lu, Chao yang 

there is some info here

http://www.iccie.cn/cms/showDocumentAction.do?method=print&documentid=ff80808124ed09b701251ee750b960f3

and here

http://www.iccie.cn/

This year we invited Naval along too, a great creative brand on Nan Luo Gu Xiang that actually created something different and has done very well because of that. Nice to see people doing something new on the street and not copying others. They will be holding a fashion show along with us.

Here is a short slide show about how we built Plastered T-shirts. Starting as the first brand shop on Nan Luo Gu Xiang with no one on the street to where we are now. Hope you enjoy it.

I’m speaking at the Tedx event in Beijing on Friday the 13th (blimey). You can see more info here www.tedxbeijing.com

I’m not a big fan of public speaking as i usually shit my pants before i go on but these talks are only 20 minutes long so should be able to find enough content.  Kaiser Kuo will be there my old mate! His new book is brilliant by the way. The CNN lady Kristie Lu Stout will be there too, she’s quite a lady. Anyway if you’re at a loose end pop over might be fun.

The Fink concert totally blew me away, one of the best I’ve been to in years the guy is super talented. Was great to be a small part of the tour, here are some pics from the Beijing and Shanghai gigs.

The first time I saw Rustic play was in D-22 as part of the Plastered Rock Weekend student band competition and I thought they were crap, Micheal Pettis from Maybe Mars pointed out they were the next thing and I didn’t believe it till they played on the big stage at Yu Gong Yi Shan and i was blown away.

After this they went on to win the battle of the bands in Beijing and then went onto Hong Kong to take part in the asia finals….which they won last weekend. Its great news for Rustic and for Beijing rock. They will now go onto London in December to take part in the finals. We at Plastered are very pleased!

Here is my experience on China’s biggest pop culture tv show kuai le da ben ying. 快乐大本营 After the show was aired the shops have been notably more busy which is nice not to mention the odd taxi driver and young Beijingers pointing me out on the street.

The world famous Fink is doing a China tour through the boys at micromu and Plastered is the proud sponsor. If you are in Beijing on Nov 5th make sure to go to Mao to see this guy perform.Fink will be playing Shanghai the following night and then onto Hong Kong Nov 8th.