Versace provides his clothes, Adidas has made him limited-edition gold-trimmed sneakers and Shanghai Tang have come out with a special Lang Lang scarf.
But it didn't seem likely that Shanghai Tang, one of Asia's few homegrown luxury retailers, would face the same kind of rent squeeze.
Still, you would think that Hong Kong would go to say a Hong Kong-born label like Shanghai Tang, a brand that patterns itself after Ralph Lauren, for its uniforms.
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Invoking the spirit of Mongolian nomads, Shanghai Tang erected a cluster of Mongolian yurts, called gers, atop the roof of Central Pier 4, which juts out into Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour.
But the pop-up shop does have a rugged feel, because it's alfresco, and continues to sell Shanghai Tang's pricey Chinese-style haute couture as well as provide the label's well-respected bespoke tailoring services.
Zebra skins adorn chairs with gilded edges, a Shanghai Tang trunk doubles as a bar, local cooking pots become showerheads in outside showers, and a rectangular crystal light fixture designed in-house was, Lazarus insists, such a hit that Fendi copied it.
Despite its makeshift location, Shanghai Tang is not poverty-stricken -- it has seven other outposts in Hong Kong, not to mention plenty of business savvy and a powerful owner (the Richemont Group, a Swiss company that also controls other high-end brands like Cartier, Van Cleef and Arpels, Piaget and Montblanc).
This made us feel a little greedy and high-maintenance. (Hilton says it is planning to tweak the app to allow guests to make multiple requests at once.) Maybe Conrad read our avaricious mind, because 10 minutes later, an employee arrived bearing two dental kits, two pairs of slippers, two robes and a toiletry kit (with shampoo, conditioner, lotion and soaps) from Shanghai Tang, a luxury Chinese retailer.
Since Forbes' first China rich list in 1999, Sichuanese tycoon Mou Qizhong, actress Liu Xiaoqing, orchid king Yang Bin, Shanghai developer Zhou Zhengyi, entrepreneur Tang Wanxin and investment boss Zhang Rongkun have been sentenced to prison for crimes ranging from tax evasion to fraud to stock manipulation to bribery.
Florrie Tang, who bought an apartment in a Shanghai suburb in June, said she had been searching for a place since March and felt that prices had fallen close to the bottom of the market.
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