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During 1960s there were as many as 15,000 tailors. In 1966, the South China Morning Post ran a headline declaring that London's Savile Row, until then the undisputed international center of bespoke tailoring, had been replaced by Hong Kong. In the 1970s and 80s, ready-made suits became widely available, causing a decline in the number of ...
Raja Fashions are a bespoke tailor based in Hong Kong with sales operations in other countries. [1] [2] [3] The company's business model is to take measurement from clients abroad, for instance in Europe and North America, after which clothes are produced by tailors based in China.
The shop was founded by Sam Melwani in 1957, after he signed a contract to produce the uniforms of British soldiers stationed in Hong Kong. [1] The shop is still run by his sons, Manu and Sham Melwani, as well as his grandson Roshan Melwani. [1] It is located in Burlington Arcade on 94 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Hari Naroomal Harilela, GBM GBS OBE JP (10 August 1922 – 29 December 2014) was a Hong Kong Indian businessman, hotelier and philanthropist and the founder and chairman of the Harilela Group. The group runs businesses ranging from hotel and real estate investment to import and export trading. He was often dubbed the richest Indian in Hong Kong ...
In 1949, he left for Hong Kong where he started taking orders for custom made shirts. Knocking on door after door, he visited the offices of Shanghainese businessmen who were unable to find high quality shirts in Hong Kong. By 1953, Ascot Chang opened his first 600 square feet (56 m 2) store at 34 Kimberley Road.
There are 35 athletes from Hong Kong in the 2024 Paris Olympics. They are: Fencing. Daphne Chan. No Wai Hang. Vivian Kong (who made history as the first woman from Hong Kong to win a gold medal in ...
Tailors working at a Bonham Strand workshop on Hollywood Road in Central. Besides reaching out to corporate sponsors, Bonham Strand is the first tailor to reach out to the Hong Kong Government for support to help revive the tailoring industry in Hong Kong as well as helping with unemployed youths. [3]
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...