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 [...]

I’ve done a tone of TV shows but usually on my own and these shows cover a lot of topics. This show I had no idea was so popular until I walked out of my home on Friday and got recognised by every other person I walked past. My poor wife who was also pulled [...]

 
The glorious set of stain glass icons is nearly finished, here is the last member to the team of 4. Zhou En Lai, designed by French/Chinese artist Tian Tian I can’t wait for this one to be made into a glass window. The stain glass makers are all the way down in Jiang Xu province [...]

I get sent quite a lot of pictures of plastered fans in different places in the world wearing plastered gear, I even have one chap on top on Mont Blanc in a plastered t shirt…nutter, this one however is my favourite thus far, i won’t name the person and will take it down if asked [...]

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.

I’m still working on completing our stain glass collection. We recently printed our Mao Ze Dong design onto T-shirts which is proving to be very popular. I have had Deng Xiao Ping and Mao already made into real stain glass windows, Lei Feng and other icons are still in the factory. This week I had [...]

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.

We held a 5 day sales in the shops last week. Quite simple, buy one and get one free, but only if you sign the giant 8 we put up on the wall. Here are the 8s and pics of our great customers at work. Thanks to all who were involved I hope you can [...]