BFC Networks London Designers With Hong Kong’s Business Executives At The Great Festival Of Innovation.

Caroline Rush CBE, the Chief Executive Officer of the British Fashion Council (BFC), hosted a cocktail reception for London designers Edeline Lee, Eudon Choi, Amy Powney, Roksanda and more with Hong Kong’s biggest executives in the fashion retail and e-retail world. The cocktail reception happened after The Great Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong, an annual gathering of industry leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, educationalists, and futurologists to an audience from the UK, Hong Kong, China, Japan, South Korea and the wider region. The festival was a four day event, it began on March 21st and ended March 24th.

This year the feastival’s concept of “borderless cities” included innovation discussions around smart cities, automated work (AI), virtual education, and mobile shopping and entertainment. BFC attended and closed festival events with an intimate gathering at the the Potato Head restaurant on 3rd street in Sai Ying Pun last Friday. The curated guest list read like the ‘whose who’ of Hong Kong’s retail and e-retail world mixed with some of London’s top emerging designers.

The perfect opportunity to network, maybe?

Attendees from the business and press side included President of Lane Crawford Andrew Keith, Karla Otto Asia SVP Arne Eggers, BBC Worldwide Asia’s Carys Taylor, Net-A-Porter China’s Claire Chung, South China Morning Post’s Divia Harilela, editor-in-chief of British GQ Dylan Jones, Chief Executive Officer of Fortnum & Mason Ewan Venters, Actress Grace Lam, Influencer Susanna Lau aka Susie Bubble, InStyle China Editor Jerri Ng, Head of BBC Worldwide China Kelvin Yau, BFC Fashion Trust Co-chair Sian Westerman, Net-A-Porter China VP Tess Macleod Smith, Influencer Vincci Yang, and South China Morning Post’s Vincenzo Torre.

London designer attendees included Mother of Pearl’s Amy Powney, Edeline Lee, Eudon Choi, Georgia Hardinge, Phoebe English, Roksanda, and Serafina Sama.

DJ Kevin Poon was the featured MC for the evening. Check out the pictures from the social (networking) cocktail reception at the Potato Head in Hong Kong.