Even Karl Lagerfeld recognizes the charm of the city with this unique collection "Paris-Shanghai".
Take a look at the web-site, the fashion-show on the Bund is amazing!
...This is part of Elisabeth Quin's interview with Peter Marino, the eccentric "Starchitect" who was in charge of the new Chanel's boutique in Shanghai:
Mr. Peter Marino
Elisabeth Quin: Shanghai, what does it bring to your mind, Shanghai? Peter Marino: Shanghai, I hate to tell everybody in Paris, but I’m from New York and Shanghai is the number 1 city in the world today. So that’s – you’ve got to go there to see it. The energy, the number of buildings being built, the money that is there, their attitude, every single brand in the world trying to get there, it’s still growing, it’s still alive, maybe not yet “culturally”, but that always comes.
EQ: That comes after.
PM: That comes after, exactly. At the moment, I say to everybody, “You want to be a citizen, a modern citizen of the world, you have to go to Shanghai!” You don’t understand, sorry –
EQ: No, no, come on, this is a free world, I mean, I love the way, you just, you know, assume that. Sure. Yes, but that’s since what, ten years ago?
PM: Maybe less, maybe 7 to 5.
EQ: Yes.
PM: Things have changed so quickly.
EQ: Yes, yes.
PM: It’s really – you don’t recognize the streets in Shanghai if you don’t go for one year. Or the next three months. I mean everything is super speed compared to the West, I mean we’re all asleep here. We’re asleep!
EQ: Nap nap!
PM: No, I like it because we used to refer to it, in America, when we grew up, at school, they used to call China “the sleeping giant”. And now it’s reversed because the giant woke up and all the West has gone to sleep. In terms of building and energy and money and thinking “why societies are tired” and all, they’re like oohh. So it’s really an interesting moment with a shift in the world.
