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Dressing for Ninety Percent Humidity
Hong Kong summer is not hot so much as wet. Most wardrobes fail here not because of the heat, but because the fabric was chosen for a drier city entirely.
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What a Good Tailor in Tsim Sha Tsui Will Tell You
The first thing a real tailor does is talk you out of something. A shirt that costs a week's rent is only worth it if the collar sits correctly — and most collars do not.
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Linen Does Not Lie
It creases, it slouches, and it forgives nothing about the body underneath. That is precisely why it is worth wearing — and why so few people do.
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The Colour of Hong Kong, and Why It Sits on Skin
Neon, wet asphalt, magnesium-white office light, and the particular green of a tram. A city this saturated quietly rewrites which colours work on you.
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One Good Jacket, and the Death of the Overstuffed Closet
Hong Kong apartments are small and the weather is narrow. Between those two facts, the case for owning less — and owning it properly — makes itself.