I’m a self-confessed tech head. If you ever go to Hong Kong and see people praying at the altar of electronics stores, don’t worry, that is completely normal behaviour and that is probably where it all started for me. The rows and rows of shiny phones, MP3 players and laptops. It’s a combination of the mighty urge to press lots of buttons and being deprived of toys in my childhood (no really, I literally had one cardboard box to play with) that has made me the gadget-freak that I am today. However, even with the number of fashion/gadget collaborations that have been around – the Vivienne Westwood Motorola phone, the D&G Razr, the Miu Miu furry iPod case etc, I have never combined my two loves for fashion and gadgets and have never really fallen for said collaborations. For example, this Dior Homme USB memory stick is sleek, sophisticated and the kind of thing I know a few of my male friends would love to whip out at any given opportunity. I’m personally not sold. I can’t justify the extra cost tacked onto this silver stick when my faithful ¬£10 memory stick works just as well.
Then there’s the *sharp intake of breath* Prada LG phone which everyone is going cuckoo crazy over. It comes out next week I think at a price of ¬£380. As designer phones go, it’s not the most expensive and again it’s slick, sophisticated and all the rest of it but for me, dare I say it’s a little on the bland side? It’s minimalist to the point of cold. The limited ASSU 56F Prada laptop that came out last year though clad in a striking baby pink leather doesn’t really rock my boat either.
I should be jumping for joy for these combinations of my two passions but these products are leaving me with a feeling of ‘Meh? Is that it?’. Perhaps I won’t be satisfied unless a Basso & Brooke holographic printed phone, a Jonathan Saunders laptop with a flocked gradiated colour exterior or even a specially sculpted Balenciaga iPod appears. Perhaps I want something a bit more ‘out there’ in my tech/fashion collaborations. Something that goes that extra mile. All these ideas cooking up in my head melding fashion and technology. Fat chance of any of that happening since these products have to sell to the masses in droves in order to warrant their production but I can but wish and imagine right?
Oh Gosh! My boyfriend is from Hong Kong and I didn’t know. His regular joke at every birthday/XMas is “I want a present… with a display” :-))
Heu susie!
Do you know of any sample sales coming up?? Please do share.. 😀
Xx
The first two lines of your post made me laugh. I, too, am Chinese and can relate. There’s just something in the blood =). My brother absolutely consumes anything tech-related-high-tech gyzmos, tech literature, tech DIYs.
Love reading your blog–it’s both cute and inspiring.
Vania
Ah, poor Susie…no toys? And I thought I was toy-deprived as a kid (two teddy bears and three random dolls). And you still have a kid’s sense of fun when it comes to playing with your clothes 🙂
the dior homme USB…???!!!
i’m so flabbergasted, i’m not even sure how to address this
Can’t wait for those pink covers for the iPhone to come out 🙂
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