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BROS PRODUCTS, HONG KONG COLORFUL STREETWEAR BRAND. ASIA URBAN CLOTHING, CUTE KAWAII CHARACTER DESIGN.
Introducing our favorite new streetwear brand… Bros Products, from Hong Kong! Here’s the fun story of how we got to know the designers; they’re now some of our favorite people.
Sebastiano Serafini discovered the colorful urban clothes years ago, when he was modeling in Hong Kong. He wore the Shark backpack on his TV drama, Nihonjin no shiranai nihongo, and Japanese viewers fell in love with it.
While we were in Hong Kong, we noticed that Bros Products was everywhere (lots of young people wearing the cute character garments). We got in touch with the label… and guess what. Designer Beerbean invited us to pick out clothes — as many as we wanted — from their factory inventory!
The fun, bright kiddy streetwear fits our personalities perfectly. It was difficult to narrow down our choices.
Mr. Shark, however, is probably Seba’s favorite character.
Pop quiz: can you find the design tributes to the Simpsons, Spongebob, Winnie the Pooh?
Sanrio’s not the only company with adorable characters. The Bros family includes Baby Lion, Rinne, Benson the naked boy, Panda, Duck and Monkey, combined in oh-so-many ways. (Frankenstein Lion and Devil Rinne, to name a few.)
The brand’s a small, family-run operation, but produces an impressive number of designs. Including sneakers, belts and watches.
Bros Products has nine stores in Hong Kong. Each is decorated as brightly as the t-shirt prints. (You can see photos of their Causeway Bay shop here.)
The team is the nicest, and we’re working together on something cool… We’ll let you know what’s up as soon as we can!
Sebastiano modeled Bros Products in a fashion shoot for a magazine; here are some of the images.
Do you love Bros Products as much as we do? Don’t you want to wear everything they make? In fact, we ended up doing exactly that… hilarious photos to come!
PS: Sebastiano and I are in an Italian TV news show (T7), in a story about Luisaviaroma’s fashion blogger event! You can see us in the clip above and here.
Song of the Day: XA-VAT – VAT-DANCE (featuring Kozi of Malice Mizer).
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FASHION BLOGGERS DINNER AT LA SPECOLA, FLORENCE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. TOP STYLE BLOGS, FIRENZE ARCHITECTURE.
A four-course meal to remember! LuisaViaRoma held a VIP fashion blogger’s dinner at La Specola, the Museum of Zoology and Natural History in Florence.
I’m wearing a silver crucifix body chain, gifted from CB Designs. Chelsea designed the necklace ingeniously, using lightweight materials (so I never felt weighed down). The silver chain can be worn short or long, to mix it up. CB Designs has a full range of jewelry on Etsy.
My spring floral dress is gifted from Gloomth; love their neo-Rococo fashions. The sunhat is from a Hong Kong stall.
It was wonderful to meet bloggers from around the world, including Emilie from My Little Fashion Diary (Luxembourg). We crossed the Piazza del Duomo and shared a cab with Yvan Rodic, The Face Hunter (France).
In front of Luisa’s shop with Sofie from Fashionata (Belgium). At the Specola museum, we sipped fresh strawberry champagne cocktails with Wyman Wong — Hong Kong fashion editor, Cantopop lyricist and cool cat.
The dining hall was lined with glass cases, displaying the skeletons of humans and animals. (It reminded me of the time I did a photoshoot in a taxidermy exhibit.)
A monstrous skeleton hung over the long dinner table, scattered with roses.
Sandra’s Closet took this cute photo of Sebastiano and me.
Between each course, there was live opera singing. The bloggers are laughing at the iPad, which magnified the view of the singers!
Italian food can’t be beat. The warm, Tuscan tomato bisque inside a bread bowl (pappa al pomodoro) was out of this world.
Meringue with dark chocolate sauce for dessert. Yes, please.
After the meal, Seba and I walked around the streets of Florence. Everywhere you turn, there’s romantic architecture: columns, cobblestones, piazzas.
When you visit a new city, how do you like to explore it? I personally love trying the local food, and walking around the streets — you?
Song of the Day: vellaDonna – Chaos (Old school Visual Kei)
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