She may be fashionably late but she'll certainly be fashionably clad.
The chic shopper on Canton Road has no shortage of label choices as she works her way from Louis Vuitton to Chanel via Prada down Hong Kong's slightly tacky answer to Rodeo Drive. Chris Orta, the food and beverage director of the nearby hotel, The Langham, is hoping she will also be fashionably refreshed.
The Los Angeleno challenged his bartenders to come up with cocktails that were as beautiful as the shoes and clothes worn by the customers stopping off at the hotel's Palm Court lobby lounge bar. The result is a new cocktail list launched last week.
Recalling an era before politically correct sensibilities, the drinks are being positioned as appealing to 'ladies'.
While Orta says that having a couple of drinks before hitting the stores could lead to 'an attitude adjustment' that would lead to a more 'creative shopping mode', the fashionistas tend to see the bar as a place to take a break between flexing the plastic.
'They'll have a martini and then head back [out] and hit the stores again,' says Orta.
