A few weeks ago, I met with my dear friend Richard Von Essen and wonderful artist Helena Sellergren (who is a Swedish native but has been living in France for many years) to appreciate some of Helena’s artistic creations. I felt simultaneously the Scandinavians simplicity, french seduction and a hint of Japanese expression. And I loved this exquisite fusion! Aren’t they beautiful!
Environment is one of the issues that are close to my heart! Many LA YIN panel members share the same concerns and some asked me when LA YIN will come out with Eco-friendly stuff.
I have been paying attention to ECO friendly materials: recycled, bio-degradable and etc.
We are now working with engineers in China on some good environment friendly materials and I hope we can launch an ECO-friendly collection in not too distant future. Stay tuned!
The excitement was so contagious as I was listening to all the changes my dear friend Anki is making in her career path.
Anki has provided her leadership in many organizations including her very early HR director assignment with Apple Sweden, and her most recent one as HR director at one of the largest insurance companies in the Europe (Trygg-Hansa). It was a highly challenging leadership assignment of transforming an old and conservative establishment into a modern one. In my impression, Anki is always calm and elegantly presented. The glitters in her eyes give away her fondness for next level of challenges. She recently decided to leave her latest executive role and pursue her next adventure! Much to my delight, we’ll soon see another outstanding woman entrepreneur among us. I’ll keep it secret as for what her business will be about, but stay tuned!
For many of us, boredom is not an option. Anki and I very much share this philosophy.
Shanghai has been a very special place for me. It has a mysterious seductive charm. During my early university days, I knew intimately well the streets where one could find stylish outfits, shoes and accessories. To many Chinese then, Shanghai stood for fine things. Today it is still the capital of style and fine living.
It is an obvious place where I want LA YIN to be present. If compared to Beijing people, Shanghai consumers are far more complex. After much observation and learning, we are finally there to offer LA YIN products to stylish and demanding Shanghai customers! How cool!
We are conducting a survey about the iPad. Please tell us about how you’d like to use it, what you’d like to come with it and so on so forth! We’d love to have you input regardless gender and age :))
https://app.icontact.com/icp/sub/survey/take
Thousands of thanks!
The Chinese Tiger year has just arrived! Wish everyone a great tiger year!
Are you a tiger? Check out the following years, if you were born in one of these years then you’re a tiger:
1938 31 Jan 1938 - 18 Feb 1939 (Earth)
1950 17 Feb 1950 - 05 Feb 1951 (Metal)
1962 05 Feb 1962 - 24 Jan 1963 (Water)
1974 23 Jan 1974 - 10 Feb 1975 (Wood)
1986 09 Feb 1986 - 28 Jan 1987 (Fire)
1998 28 Jan 1998 - 15 Feb 1999 (Earth)
2010 14 Feb 2010 - 02 Feb 2011 (Metal)
Go tiger!
I’m amazed by high quality of the blogging activities in Sweden.
We’ve just got the results for Stora Bloggpriset 2009. The winner list can be found at the http://storabloggpriset.se/.
My favorites are:
Mode
Kenza
Design & inredning
Emmas designblogg
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’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!
I can’t wait!!
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!
