Color just works for Hong Kong knitwear brand
Would you say that Hong Kong's consumer taste is changing?
Yes in that it's so much easier to buy clothes, with more choices – and that doesn't necessarily mean buying on the high street, but from Taobao. So getting clothes is easier than it was; people can buy more and try more. But if Hong Kong people have the money to buy name brands, they will; they won't run away from big brands.
What are the signature pieces of Cynthia & Xiao?
The rabbit and tiger prints. Right from the start, they have been selling well. In Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui, there's a really old man who teaches people how to crochet dolls. He did some for us recently, so now it's like an evolution of the tiger and the rabbit. These are like alien rabbits, if you will.
