Valen’s Vanity Square

Jeez, I forgot to make the most important announcement here - my online boutique is open for business!

Not going to say much here. Just hop over and take a look!

P/s: Although most of the clothes are sold out by now, rest assured we will be getting more new designs after CNY

Oops, I forgot to mention in my last post that you can actually get RISIS items in Malaysia. 

I have seen their outlets in KLCC and MidValley Megamall. I read that they also have one shop in 1 Utama.

So there is no need to purchase online. You can bring along your boyfriend or hubby there, right away.

Girls, does your boyfriend or husband keep using that lame ‘it’s-a-waste-of-money-to-buy-flowers-coz-they-don’t-last’ excuse to not to send you flowers? Well, tell him that he can now buy you just ONE orchid or rose from RISIS, because their flowers last forever - and are all gold plated!

RISIS is a brand from Singapore that has been in the accessories industry for 30 years, with outlets spread across major cities worldwide. But I only got to know of its existence few months ago while watching a morning show on the telly.

Do you know what they did to REAL fresh orchids and roses? They encapsulated the flowers in 24K gold to so-call preserve their natural texture and shape. Of course, this unique process involves a number of steps.

The gold-plated orchids are then made into brooches, earrings, pendants and other fashion accessories.

Tea Rose Brooch SG$63; Orchid Brooch SG$55

As for roses, you can get a 40-cm long golden rose (together with its stem and leaves). Golden rose - sound like a fairy tale huh.
40-cm Golden Rose SG$108

One of their pieces that I like is the slider. It’s a versatile piece. You can wear it as a necklace, with the orchid as the pendant. Or, if you are wearing a black dress, then by adjusting the length of the chain, you can have it around your waist, to add a bit of glitter and glamour to your plain outfit.

Orchid Slider SG$70

If you want to show it off BIG, then get the orchid tray!

Tray with gold-plated orchidssssss SG$360

There are more versions of the orchid and rose accessories plus other types of gifts available from RISIS. For more information and to purchase online, you can visit their official web site www.risis.com.

Now your boyfriend or husband has no excuse not to buy you flowers anymore.

Image source: www.risis.com

Very few of us can afford even one GENUINE super-luxury designer handbag in our lifetime. But what the heck, even if we can’t afford to have one, we can surely have our own favorite brands and labels, and talk about them like we would buy them the next day.

So far, Louis Vuitton is NOT one of my ‘favorite’ brands. But it IS to many, many people out there. LV bags - handbags, totes, clutches, luggages - are famed for its signature LV monogram design. (Well, this is exactly the reason why I don’t like LV. Sorry to say that.) It is a status symbol. If you are able to own a GENUINE LV handbag, you would be walking like you were 2 inches taller.

Anyway, I’m happy for all LV enthusiasts out there, coz now they have another place to shop for LV goods besides Starhill Gallery - KLCC!

Yep, Louis Vuitton second boutique is now in KLCC. It was officially launched about two months ago by the sixth-generation descendant of the Louis Vuitton family - Benoit-Louis Vuitton.

To celebrate the opening of the store in KLCC, LV has exclusively created and launched a limited edition diamond watch - the Speedy Twilight Kuala Lumpur. The watch features diamond-encrusted Petronas Twin Towers icon as the main design motif.

Read this:
- There are only 8 pieces of this watch in the whole wide world!
- Each watch is made of 85 g of white gold, 319 diamonds and 169 pink and blue sapphires!
- Each watch is sold for RM214,000!

Wow.

I tried to search online for the images of the watch but couldn’t find one. So what I did was I took photos of the photos from the magazine The Edge. Please forgive me on the less than satisfactory image quality because that’s the best I can do.

But you can at least see that Mr Benoit-Louis Vuitton is CUTE and the watch is dazzling! Well, may be not so dazzling in the image shown here, hehe. I’m only showing the watch with the pink strap, there is another color available (something like greyish blue).

Remarks: I have not been to any of the LV boutiques. I learned about the opening of the second LV outlet from The Edge. So, reading business and investment magazines also helps to update our vanity knowledge.