IN CHINESE CULTURE, SYMBOLS, NUMBERS AND SOUNDS ARE OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE SO MALAYSIAN CHINESE BUYING HONG KONG DESIGNER DORIAN HO AND PERRIER-JOUET CHAMPAGNE MAY HAVE TO ASK HIM TO TWEAK HIS ASKING PRICE.
In Hong Kong dollars, $ 8,880,000 is as auspicious as it gets though the price should be HK$ 8,888,888 since anyone who can pay HK$ 8 million can top up a few more dollars. The number 8 is considered extremely lucky as it sounds the same as 'prosperous' whereas 4 sounds the same as 'death'!
But converted into Malaysian Ringgit, it is as nasty as it gets, RM 4.44 million! That is to die not once but thrice! This applies in both Hokkien and Cantonese the local dialect of Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur whereas in Kota Baru and Taiwan, it is Hokkien.
So Malaysian buyers will have to ask Dorian Ho to either add more pearls to round up the price to RM 5 million or remove some to reduce it to RM 3 million!
Still, a collaboration between a top Hong Kong designer and Perrier-Jouet champagne is ideal as champers are best accompanied by weddings!
Jennifer Tse and Dorian Ho, creator of the RM 4.44 million bridal gown inspired by Perrier-Jouet champagne
Jennifer Tse looking like 4.44 million ringgit!
Looking divine front and back!
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Each pearl had to be hand stitched
Brenda Cheung of Island Shangri-La, Jennifer Tse and Dorian Ho toasting the potential buyer no doubt
Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong and Dorian Ho Revealed the RM 4,440,000 bridal gown inspired by Perrier-Jouet Champagne!
Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong and internationally renowned designer Dorian Ho co-hosted a press conference on 15 August 2012 at the hotel’s Atrium on level 39 to announce their collaboration for the 2012 Gala Dinner and Bridal Fair.
At the press conference, Dorian Ho has unveiled his
spectacular pearl wedding gown worth HK$8,880,000 - inspired by the
aesthetic value behind the finest Champagne Perrier-Jouët. The gown was modelled by Jennifer Tse.
In addition, Brenda Cheung, director of events
management at Island
Shangri-La, Hong Kong introduced the hotel’s newly launched “Blissful Wedding”
package that features Perrier-Jouët’s
Grand Brut Champagne.
Dorian Ho also showcased the
Dorian Ho Bridal 2013
Collection - Garden of
Love, and his new romantic evening dress collection, Doll by
Dorian Ho, after its successful debut in Paris this July.
'Garden of Love' is a one-of-a-kind wedding gown beaded with over ten thousand pearls.
About Island Shangri-La
Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
currently owns and/or manages 72 hotels under the Shangri-La, Kerry and Traders
brands with a room inventory of over 30,000.
Shangri-La hotels are five-star deluxe properties featuring extensive
luxury facilities and services.
Shangri-La hotels are located in Australia, Canada, mainland China,
Fiji, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives,
Philippines, Singapore, Sultanate of Oman, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Arab
Emirates. The group has a substantial
development pipeline with upcoming projects in Canada, mainland China, India,
Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Turkey and United
Kingdom. For more information and
reservations, please contact a travel professional or access the website at www.shangri-la.com.
About Dorian Ho
Dorian
Ho is one of the most renowned fashion designers in Hong Kong. He debuted his first evening gown collection Dorian Ho Collection in 2001, which he
also showcased in Sydney’s Mercedes Australian Fashion Week and Seventh on
Sixth Fashion Week in New York. Dorian Ho Collection is now being sold
in Hong Kong, the United States, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,
mainland China and the Middle East. In
2005, Dorian launched the custom-made bridal collection Dorian Ho Bridal, which made him one of the most sought after
wedding gown designers. Last year, he introduced a
children’s party clothes collection and this coming
fall, he will be launching a youthful fashion line
named Doll by Dorian Ho as well as Dorian Ho Homme for men. Dorian Ho is gradually expanding his fashion
empire.
About Perrier-Jouët
Since it was established in
1811, the Champagne house of Perrier-Jouët has remained committed to one goal:
presenting Champagne drinkers with the most refined, elegant and superb
Champagnes available, and celebrating the finer things in life with bottles and
magnums available only at the finest restaurants, the most sophisticated bars
and the most luxurious dinner parties.
About
the Pearl Wedding Gown
This is the first-ever collaboration between Dorian Ho and Perrier-Jouët, with Perrier-Jouët
as an elegant source of inspiration for the pearl wedding gown. The idea was stimulated during Dorian’s
travel to a fashion week in Paris and visit to the Perrier-Jouët Maison Belle
Époque in Épernay. Whilst working on his
new collection of wedding gowns for Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong’s Bridal Fair,
Dorian was inspired by the embossed artistic anemone pattern design on the
bottle of the premium Perrier-Jouët Belle Époque, which was then dazzlingly
transposed into the design of the champagne-themed gown. Further inspiration came from what is inside the
bottle, dripping with silvery-white pearls that resemble the bubbles of
Perrier-Jouët champagne.
Commenting on the
new collection, Dorian Ho said, “Perrier-Jouët
has long embraced the design community
and partnered with different artists. It
is my honour to be the first designer to create a wedding gown for the brand
with such an elegant source of inspiration. I have tried to produce
something that aspires to the same level of rarefied quality and delightful
effervescence.”
Pearls By WING HAN DIAMOND
1 comment:
The design of the wedding gown is awesome and credit goes to the designer. The engaged people may use the wedding planner iPad app to ease their wedding tension and to search the wedding resources nearby area.
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