Eason and Hilary Catches "Mr. Snow White & Mr. Cinderella"

Eason Chan and wife Hilary Tsui found time to support their good friend Wyman Wong and showed up to catch the musical Mr. Snow White & Mr. Cinderella (白雪先生灰先生), featuring Lewis Leung (梁祖堯) and Wyman Wong.



Mr. Snow White & Mr. Cinderella (Offical Site)

Sources: on.cc 10.04.2008 & wtheatre

Eason Designs 10th Anniversary FENDI Baguette

To celebrate 10 Years of the, Italian designer, Fendi's Baugette line, the company is going worldwide and holding Fendi 10+ Art Exhibition's in various cities. From April 2 - 27, 2008, the Fendi 10+ Art Exhibition will be held in Hong Kong at the The Gallery at Harbour City (海港城美術館展), featuring Hong Kong's well known "fresh minds" (食腦之人) creating their own unique versions of the Fendi Baugette bag. Hong Kong's "fresh minds" include the entertainment industry's Eason Chan, Jan Lamb, Wyman Wong, co-creator of Shrek the Third Raman Hui 許誠毅, Hong Kong photographer, director and graphic designer Wing Shya 夏永康, graphic designer with focus in advertising and brand design Alan Chan 陳幼堅, Taiwanese writer Ruey Lin Chen 陳瑞麟, illustrators Alice Chan, Carrie Chau and makeup artist Rick Chin. The theme of the designs was set as "The Joy of Children."

Eason stayed up late at night to create his exclusive Fendi Baguette design and the final design featured a smiley face with a dream bubble, the line WESHOULDALLDREAMALITTLEMOREOFTEN on the interior of the shoulder strap, and the designer's name Fendi and the Chinese characters 十加 on the back. In a phone interview Eason explains, "I received a package from Fendi, enclosed was a white canvas Fendi Baguette and a box of color pantone. When I saw all the colors I was so happy that I was about to create a color filled bag, but after some more thinking I realized a black and white bag can also be pretty. The theme is 10+, '+' representing 'plus,' so I wrote the Chinese characters 十加 (ten plus) in Chinese calligraphy -- we are Chinese, so East meets West. The front of the bag has a smiley face with a tongue sticking out -- a personal gesture whenever I sign something for a fan. When you open the flap of the bag there is a bubble which represents a 'dream bubble' and is left empty so the future owner of the bag can fill the dream bubble with their own dream. On the interior of the bag's handle is the phrase "we should all dream a little more often" which has always been a phrase I use and representing one should dream a little more and my hope that the world is more colorful, more joyous and filled with happy dreams."

Source: appledaily 04.02.2008

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The Hong Kong Fendi 10+ Art Exhibition opened on April 2, 2008 at the The Gallery at Harbour City (海港城美術館展) where the event was star filled.

Miriam Yeung was at the Fendi 10+ Art Exhibition and aside from liking Eason's design, she also admires Carrie Chau's My Girl.My Baguette because the design featured 4 men carrying the bag and presenting it to a woman they love. The design represents a man willing to work hard for a woman, which is a proud representation for women. Miriam says she wants to purchase Eason's bag so she can give it to Hilary Tsui as a birthday gift.

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Bags by the other designers

Carrie Chau My Girl.My Baguette

Jan Lamb with his signature smiley faces, hopes everyone smiles a little more

Ruey Lin Chen laughs while he puts his bag on his head

Wing Shya, one of the designers

Alan Chan's fierce red bag, representing the vitality of life

Carina Lau's colorful design, to be featured at the Taiwan leg of the Exhibitions

Alice Chan with her creation

Sources:
Fendi 10plus Official Site
Alice Chan's blog 04.03.2008
mingpao & takungpao 04.04.2008

"Moving On Stage 1" Song Tees

The following are the tees Wyman Wong designed, with song titles, for Eason to wear during the encores.

Always With Me - 與我常在

Same Time Next Year - 明年今日

My Happy Times - 我的快樂時代

There's Not Another - 天下無雙

The Deviant - 遊離分子

This Minute We Hold - 抱擁這分鐘

The following was worn during the concert and not the encore.

King of Karaoke - K歌之王

The following was worn at a TVB event (November 7, 2007).

Crying in the Party

Sources:
tungstar
appledaily
Eason's fans from all around

"Moving On Stage 1" Fashion by Wyman Wong

Wyman Wong is in charge of the fashion at Eason's Moving On Stage 1's 16 shows where he says, "The biggest theme to the outfits is the clothes of a male singer adding the element of female fashion. I don't know if this theme will turn out to be as stylish as Leslie Cheung has made it or whether it will turn out to be funny like Donald (I Love You Boyz) made it, anything can happen on stage. Eason has also expressed that it doesn't matter how it turns out." Wyman says he did not get paid for this project saying, "I'd rather give up my pay and add it to the spending budget, at least I can go all out and cut up a Dior Homme instead of a Kitterick."

Traditional Dragon-Phoenix Wedding Attire x Athletic Wear

Hip Hop Chinese Tracksuit by Tomas Chan
Air Force One by Nike
Gold Jewelry by Chow Tai Fook

Wyman: Every artist that holds a concert looks for a diamond sponsor, which ends up being a game of dollar figures and is no longer original. This look is me wanting to see Bollywood at Hong Kong Coliseum. This outfit is extremely heavy with the 100 ounces of gold, the bicycle chain itself is about 1.84 kg.

Man and Wife

Wedding Gown inspired by Impasse 13

Wyman: This look came upon me when, in July, I unintentionally bumped into an Impasse 13 showroom in Paris. They've helped Dior and Dior Homme design accessories for many years and has now created their own label. I attempted to [without anything to lose] ask them to design a similar outfit for Eason and they actually said yes. The veil is designed by exclusive Dior headpiece designer Stephen Jones.

English + Japanese =

Vintage Japanese Kimono
Vintage Trench Coat by Burberry

Wyman: In July, after viewing a men's line in Paris, I went to Tokoyo to look at vintage Japanese kimonos. This outfit is a vintage Japanese kimono attached to a vintage Burberry trench coat.

Learn English thru Encore

Slogan Tee by Wyman Wong

Wyman: I thought up of a few tees for Eason, you could say they are a variation of House of Holland slogan tees. These tees are the English titles to a number of songs Eason will be performing during the encores. They are plastic printed block letters.

Androgyny



Headpiece by Stephen Jones
Suit by Dior Homme
Dress Shirt and Bow by Impasse 13
Cape by Wyman Wong and Tomas Chan

Wyman: This outfit is Dior Homme meets Valentino. This outfit represents the luxury of the stage and integrating men and women's fashion. We purchased a tens of thousands of dollars' Dior Homme suit and cut it up, keeping only the shoulders and neck piece, then we worked on adding everything else to it. Earlier, Eason went to London in June and left information of his head size along with DVD's of his previous concerts with Stephen Jones, who created this headpiece.

Source: apple daily 10.26.2007

Here are some of the other tees by Wyman:


(article above) King of Karaoke: K歌之王 (2000, EEG)


Always With Me: 與我常在 (1997, Capital Artists)


There's Not Another: 天下無雙 (1998, Capital Artists)

Source: sina (courtesy of tungstar) 10.25 - 11.1.2007

"Moving On Stage 1" -- Night 1

Here is your night 1, October 24, 2007, recap of Eason's Moving On Stage 1

News
Eason pushes decency limit at concert: batgwa.com

In case you decided to skip the news -- after the show Eason & Katie Chan stayed behind at Hong Kong Coliseum for a press conference where they announced another show will be added totaling Moving On Stage 1 to 16 shows. The show will be added on November 6th and will be sponsored by Johnnie Walker. Tickets will go on sale Monday October 29th.


Celebrity Sighting


Louis Cheung & Kay Tse
Bondy Chiu & boyfriend
Niki Chow
Tanya Chua (left)
Toby Leung
PixelToy
RTHK DJs
Stefanie Sun (right)
Hilary Tsui & Constance Chan
Wyman Wong

Rundown
1. 白玫瑰
2. 信心花舍
3. K 歌之王
4. 裙下之臣
5. 富士山下
6. 不如不見
7. 夕陽無限好
8. 人車誌
9. 馬利奧派對
10. 最佳損友
11. What a Wonderful World
12. 今日
13. Dance Mix + 熱島小夜曲
14. Crying in the Party
15. 我不好愛
16. 打回原形
17. 衝口而出
18. 月球上的人
19. 葡萄成熟時
20. 第五個現代化
21. 演唱會
22. 浮誇
23. 低等動物
24. 黑擇明
25. 粵語殘片
26. 綿綿
27. 淘汰
28. 黃金時代
29. 落花流水
encore: 與我常在

Pictorial
*Opening stage:

*Miss Constance Chan

Remember Constance at Get a Life? Here's a memory jogger in case you forgot:

Notice the special VIP pass she had around her neck in the first picture?
Take a look at this year's pass and take a look at how much she has grown 1 1/2 years after Get a Life (she turned 3 earlier this month):

That's Wyman Wong on the right, in case you didn't know

* Elegance meets men in tutu

2 days before the show we were told Eason would perform ballet with a group of 20 high quality ballerinas, as pictured here:

BUT this was the result:

* Leehom Wang fuses East & West into Chinese music.
Wyman Wong fuses East & West into concert fashion.

You have baggy sweats fused with traditional wedding gold:

You have your traditional rain coat fused with a kimono:

* Crossover: Man or Wife? Man or Horse?

After Eason won Most Popular Commercial Male Lead for his crossover as a woman in a commercial, you had to see this coming:

Only Eason would wear this:

No, your eyes are not deceiving you -- that's a stuffed horse connected to the back of his suit.

* the HUH?!

How did the "hat" manage to stay up and on his head?
I'm guessing it's a balloon filled with helium and attached to his hair.

What is that?
I'm not even going to try and guess what that fabric is.

* All the other pictures (click to enlarge)

Reaction

At the end of the night the general consensus was: night 1 was okay. Of course, it comes with giving Eason the benefit of the doubt since it was the first night.

The problems:
1. Everyone was unprepared. The show started half an hour late, changing of the stage took too long, Eason forgot his lyrics, there were volume problems, etc.
2. Too much dead air. Eason fans claim there were too many "insiders" purchasing tickets and those "insiders" are the ones that have the front row seats and are also the boring ones (i.e. they sit and don't make a peep of noise throughout.)
3. The rundown was weird. Since we were led to believe it would be a (some-what) dance concert there were too many slow songs. The placement of the songs were all over the place, with many slow songs between 2 fast songs.
4. The opening stage was beautiful but only used for 3 songs while some of the less glamorous stages were used for more than 3 songs.

The surprises:
1. The opening stage, as shown above.
2. The ballerinas, as shown above.
3. A number of songs Eason performed were unexpected.
4. Rearrangements of some of his classic hits.

Sources:
sina (courtesy of tungstar) for the photos 10.25.2007
Eason's fans who watched the first show 10.24.2007