Word: stylishly
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...Shiyi and Zhang Xin are, as one foreign press story put it last year, are the "it" couple among China's new entrepreneurs. Husband and wife, both in their mid forties, they run SOHO China, the largest private property developers in Beijing, and a company known for its sleek, stylish properties. On Saturday night, at a resort development at the Wall known as "the Commune,'' Pan and Zhang, his elegant CEO/spouse, hosted 1,000 of their closest friends. Robin Li, the young CEO of Baidu, China's Google, was there. So, too, was Chao Yang, one of the smartest young...
...chief among filmmakers championing hometown stories, and his latest work, Sparrow - a stylish pickpocket caper starring Simon Yam that premiered in February in Berlin and opened at the top of the box-office list in June in Hong Kong - is infused with an affection for Hong Kong's people and cityscape, as well as concern for threatened urban landmarks (a very topical preoccupation). "The movie is a way to gently vent my protest," To says. Among other directors, Sylvia Chang's accomplished triad-cum-family drama Run Papa Run, released in April, covers decades of Hong Kong's social transformation...
...Unsurprisingly, these stylish eco-warriors do not come cheap. They are exempt from road taxes and the central-London congestion charge, but at a base price of $109,000 for the Roadster and a target price of $240,000 for the Lightning, they may be made for the green among us but certainly not the mean - much cheaper, less-élite models will have to appear before the wider population can jump on the battery-powered bandwagon...
...build something which is fantastic, does 1,000 miles to the gallon, but the consumer doesn't want it, you won't succeed." The eccentric, inelegant and downright unmarketable designs that have gone before may be giving way to a new breed of electric car that is attractive, stylish and as much an appeal to our ego as to our green conscience. Judging by the crowds around the two cars in London, both the Lightning and the Roadster have car buffs' attention already...
...just the first seven months of this year. The prestige of wearing Caballero-secured clothing has grown too, drawing high-profile clients like King Abdullah of Jordan, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and actor Stephen Segal. But be warned: in this élite circle of the secure and stylish, there is a hidden cost. In the unfortunate event of stains--blood or otherwise--the garments are dry-clean only...