Beijing's Original T-shirt Brand

As a child I had to go to church every morning at school, it was a time to reflect and space out and think of things that I wanted to do with my life other than sit in a boring church. It was in church that I hatched many of my plans to go travelling, [...]

I’m feeling British today! Which is strange because after spending half of my life here in Beijing I sometimes forget where I’m from. The reason I’m feeling more British than usual is because of the chap in this photo, the new British Ambassador to China, Sebastian Wood CMG. A couple of weeks ago I was [...]

Sun Zi and the artof War Reality TV program
 
Last summer I spent 3 weeks being filmed by BBC reality TV crew who were filming a show called Sun Zi Art the of War. Its a 13 part series and in each program they film 13 businesses around the world and then break down those businesses [...]

Here’s a cracking new documentary the lovely people from BTV filmed last month and aired the last few days. Its about me and my life on Nan Luo Gu Xiang with my family etc. It also features a lot of my close friends who run small businesses around Nan Luo Gu Xiang.

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 [...]

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.

Back in the summer of 2007 we thought we’d try pull off Beijing’s and Nan Luo Gu Xiang’s first ever Hu Tong catwalk show. It was before Nan Luo Gu Xiang had gone crazy in terms of development so it was still fairly quiet, in fact i was the only t shirt shop back in [...]

Here’s another number 8 for the window. Went for a more classic Beijing look. The beach and the palm tree. I also made a giant washing up bottle!
We also added some beautiful buildings to the bottom.

Here are a couple of photos of our changing 8 in the shop window of our Nan Luo Gu Xiang store.
This one is inspired by our workers 8 design.
This 8 was inspired by our building posters.

I collect stuff, tonnes of it, in fact my house is full of what others might consider crap but to me its inspirational, a couple of months ago my ayi produced one of the most beatiful things i now posses, its an old painting of the summer palace, framed and stained onto glass. I recently [...]