Hong Kong is not the cultural wonderland that I hoped it would be.
I have enjoyed my time here, but I have not found it to be the centre of art which I expected.
What I have discovered though is that there is a level of "private" art and culture which is usually harder to access. There are numerous private galleries and there are annual events, all of which are catered towards the sale and purchase of art. I shouldn't have been surprised by this given Hong Kong is a city which caters to the rich and the privileged.
With all of that in mind, it wasn't entirely surprising that one of the best exhibitions I had seen in a while was actually a private event which was set up by the fashion house Chanel.
Chanel had taken over a large area in PMQ and set up a private event to display some of their most iconic designs.
The exhibition was put together like a guided walk, as you navigated your way through darkened hallways and through rooms filled with clothes and multimedia displays.
I'm sure the intention of it all was to create a journey for the visitors.
I'm not sure what story it was trying to tell, but there was definitely a journey as you wandered from each of the locations to the next.
There was a little bit of Alice in Wonderland to it all (which seems to be what designers and story tellers constantly refer back to these days), but it didn't make it less enjoyable.
It was still the designs though that were the star. Each piece was a lovely design. Each chosen for the incredible detail that you could see was involved in not only its conception, but also it's creation.
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