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First Person: Teun Overeem

December 12 marks the first anniversary of bloomnine.com, which imports luxurious adult toys from around the world, and sells them to customers in Shanghai and Hangzhou. Founder Teun Overeem spoke to James Maskell.
Subzero Heroes

We talk ice, cold, and screaming fans with some winter sports lovers.
Trying to Get High

Elevation, without the lift.

Charlotte Ronson to Open in Shanghai

Fashionistas take note: China's first Charlotte Ronson boutique is to open in Xintiandi this September. This New York fashion brand is known for its hip, urban take on casual women's wear, and the well-connected designer herself has quickly become one of the most sought after American designers after her first New York Fashion Week runway show in 2009.

Open Store: Accessorize

Popular British high street brand Accessorize has landed in Shanghai in a rather low-profile way. There were no millions of posters around the city, no advertisement on the buses and no celebrities flying into town for its opening. Well, all the better for us - at least there is no 50-meter-long queue in front of the shop.
Open Store: CatS
Want to pimp up the foyer of your lovely pet cat? There is no better place to go than this newly opened cat furniture store. It carries smartly designed cat houses, cat trees, cat condos, litter boxes and scratching poles, all made with environmentally friendly PVC foam boards.

Open Store: Accessorize

Popular British high street brand Accessorize has landed in Shanghai in a rather low-profile way. There were no millions of posters around the city, no advertisement on the buses and no celebrities flying into town for its opening. Well, all the better for us - at least there is no 50-meter-long queue in front of the shop.

Open Store: CatS
Want to pimp up the foyer of your lovely pet cat? There is no better place to go than this newly opened cat furniture store. It carries smartly designed cat houses, cat trees, cat condos, litter boxes and scratching poles, all made with environmentally friendly PVC foam boards.
Open Store: mrkt Flagship Store
It seems to take forever for the winter to go away this year, but good news is that you can cheer yourself up at mrkt's new flagship store in Infinity Plaza. Compared to the original mrkt on Julu Lu, this new outlet is much bigger in size and therefore have more products to offer, including furniture, stationary, accessories and gifts. If you're into modern, smart design with a sense of humor, you'll fall in love with these colorful and innovative goodies at the first sight (like we did).

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There’s something more than a little bit odd about not being able to trust the local weather reports.
There’s a good reason to celebrate this Friday evening. ChinesePod, the popular Mandarin learning tool, is turning five years old, and they’re throwing a party at Cotton’s on Anting Lu to commemorate their success over the past half-decade.
Tianjin, the Shanghai of the north, for a bit of treaty port tourism.

We check in at our deco hotel and then walk around the French concession area, dodging construction sites. There is no Bund and the closest thing to it, Jiefang Lu, is a pretty little movie set with smaller versions of Bund-like buildings squashed in together. The HSBC building in Tianjin says a lot about Tianjin/Shanghai comparisons – it is one fifth of Shanghai’s monolith. In the courtyard of an old apartment building we find headstones inscribed with Latin. I guess the bodies are probably under concrete. Finding somewhere for dinner is a trial, as prices are markedly higher than in Shanghai.

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Charlotte Ronson to Open in Shanghai

Fashionistas take note: China's first Charlotte Ronson boutique is to open in Xintiandi this September. This New York fashion brand is known for its hip, urban take on casual women's wear, and the well-connected designer herself has quickly become one of the most sought after American designers after her first New York Fashion Week runway show in 2009.

Open Store: Accessorize

Popular British high street brand Accessorize has landed in Shanghai in a rather low-profile way. There were no millions of posters around the city, no advertisement on the buses and no celebrities flying into town for its opening. Well, all the better for us - at least there is no 50-meter-long queue in front of the shop.
Open Store: CatS
Want to pimp up the foyer of your lovely pet cat? There is no better place to go than this newly opened cat furniture store. It carries smartly designed cat houses, cat trees, cat condos, litter boxes and scratching poles, all made with environmentally friendly PVC foam boards.

Open Store: Accessorize

Popular British high street brand Accessorize has landed in Shanghai in a rather low-profile way. There were no millions of posters around the city, no advertisement on the buses and no celebrities flying into town for its opening. Well, all the better for us - at least there is no 50-meter-long queue in front of the shop.

Open Store: CatS
Want to pimp up the foyer of your lovely pet cat? There is no better place to go than this newly opened cat furniture store. It carries smartly designed cat houses, cat trees, cat condos, litter boxes and scratching poles, all made with environmentally friendly PVC foam boards.
Open Store: mrkt Flagship Store
It seems to take forever for the winter to go away this year, but good news is that you can cheer yourself up at mrkt's new flagship store in Infinity Plaza. Compared to the original mrkt on Julu Lu, this new outlet is much bigger in size and therefore have more products to offer, including furniture, stationary, accessories and gifts. If you're into modern, smart design with a sense of humor, you'll fall in love with these colorful and innovative goodies at the first sight (like we did).