It always makes me extra happy every time I come across a young lady who has a fine taste. Kenza is an amazing girl who blogs genuinely and delightfully.
I found Emmas blog very refreshing, not only because it is in English and makes it much easier for me to follow! The materials she shares inspires much creativity! I just love her blogs.
I was waiting for the latest Apple creation with full anticipation!! I felt like a kid waiting for Santa to arrive!
As always, Steve Jobs presentation was great and inspirational! I fully appreciate the notion of focusing on a few tasks and make them outstanding. Apart from the designs, there are two things I love about Apple stuff. First, they perform the major tasks way superior than others on the block and second (more important for me) is that they create a seamless eco system surround modern beings who have modern needs such as multimedia consumption, mobile computing, and ubiquitous and all-the-time connection: my apple gadgets are synced seamlessly (I don’t need my engineering Ph.D degree to do this), I navigate through my computing tasks at a much more efficient pace (if compared to my many years experience with PCs), I got connected to my iPhone/Air, or multimedia contents, or people wherever or whenever I want (most of the time depending on network coverage).
Recall my passionate years at Motorola’s research labs, we were plotting the dream of a seamless and connected world. Now I see my dream unfold through Apple’s eco-system. iPad is what I have been wanting for our home, a great link between iPhone and MacBook. Now I’ve got a five year old girl, I can see it’s also a great thing for young kids who want to share photos, music, videos with friends and browse web to satisfy their curiosity. My daughter already asked one for her birthday! Certainly, I’m obliged to book one for her. I know I’ll borrow from her to show recipes on the kitchen bench when I cook up new dishes.
Now having said all the great things about Apple stuff, they are not completely perfect without any default. This morning, I couldn’t help noticing the article: iPad name draws feminine hygiene jokes. People reasoned that no women was involved in the marketing team. I don’t have any problems with iPad, however I was indeed made to wonder the same thing but for another feature in iPhone. The virtual keyboard on the iPhone is virtually impossible for women with long finger nails. Some of my friends who own iPhones had to give up for alternatives. If the developers were women, would they come up with the same virtual keyboard solution? Even with a great company like Apple, we still need No Pink Phone movement, don’t we!
I’m among the lucky ones! I have been enjoying the generous support from many people, in particular from 200 something LA YIN panel members worldwide.
On the 8th December, we’ll hold our first panel mingle party in Stockholm. Meeting other like-minded women and have the networking going among the women members are fun things to do!
Last night, at the dinner party hosted by Canadian ambassador Alexsandra Volkoff and Air Canada, we marked the event of 100 days counting down to Winter Olympics in Vancouver!
It’s been over five years since my last visit to my second home Montreal. Sipping Canadian wines including my favorite ice wine and tasting Canadian seafood prepared by a top Canadian chef, I felt very much nostalgic. One of my most beloved images of Canada is its incredible colors of maple leaves in the fall. The countryside in the fall looks like an impressionist oil painting. One day these impressions will find ways into LA YIN’s design expressions.
Go Canada! To my Swedish friends, see you in the final of the hockey game!
Stockholm is a place where one finds trends in the air, on the streets…. Among many fashion, design parties, there is the annual Stockholm Trend Gala organized by wonderfully stylish and well connected Maria Forssén who is also on the LA YIN panel.
The lucky few, who came to the registration in time to receive our LA YIN computer bags, seemed to be delighted by the nice surprise. I was very pleased to see the enthusiasm!
We are proud to be among the sponsors for this wonderful event.
We’re working hard on the final phase of the Christmas collection - the theme of which is called Summer Wind. We were very happy with the gorgeous samples that has been just completed. They will be available for order in 7 days. Stay tuned.
Do you have any wishes? yes? Then let me know. We’ll see if we can cook up something to address the needs.
We have another addition to the YIN Trendy line: an embroidery computer sleeve with beautiful dragonflies.
These notebook sleeves are available now at the webshop: http://store.la-yin.com, Apple stores in Northern China and soon at other stores in Europe including Telia boutiques in Sweden.
I’m pleased that we are moving consistently forward to push the No Pink movement for all the modern women out there.
We have been trying to help the big telecom players to address our women’s needs, first Telia Sweden, and now Telenor Sweden. It has been an inspiring experience working with the colleagues at Telenor, who very much want to take more care about us women’s needs in style and function in the context of high-tech experiences.
Our YIN Trendy bags will soon appear in Telenor stores across Sweden. I hope this will bring more delightful offerings to the other half of the sky, i.e. women’s sky. Women is half of the sky - this is how I was brought up in China.
We’ve done some small steps in the movement. With the modern women behind us, we’ll continue to make more steps.
Our favorite designer Charlotte Hansson tries out the YIN Chic leather computer bag.
The red gives a perfect accent to the typical Swedish setting - understated fashion.
