I always enjoy visiting Seoul - the people are so nice, so smart and so eager to make things happen!! Korea is the most advanced country when it comes to technology- everything happens through your mobile phone. This last visit was a short one. I talked at Ewha University (the largest women’s university in the world), in the most extraordinary new campus building designed by French architect Dominique Perrault. There was also a fashion show with lots of celebrities organized by my partner Simon Park in his studio space, followed by an incredible Korean dinner with Jay and Mye Ki Lee before I left for Shanghai!

I love, love, love Shanghai!! It is so full of things to discover - everything exists and everything is possible. There is old Shanghai and new Shanghai, making it a landscape of serendipity!!

My friend Huang Hung, who owns the magazine I-Look, a TV show and a blog that has 100 million viewers, came from Beijing to see me and organized a dinner at Issimo, a great Italian restaurant at the very cool JIA Hotel. There were about 20 people there, mostly designers, and great food and great fun! The next day we went to visit many of their studios and I was so inspired by all their creativity.

We had a dinner at the home of art dealer Pearl Lam, THE hostess of Shanghai, who has the longest dinner table in the world, and the most fun decor you have ever seen.

I also found my home in Shanghai… the small boutique hotel The Mansion, located in the French Concession. It has been incredibly well decorated and restored to its art deco glory… I felt like Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s!!

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