Commerce Briefs
January 28, 2008
Lunar New Year Brunch
EVENT: Sponsored by Singapore American Business Association, SingaporeConnect and NUSEA
DESCRIPTION: Celebrate the New Year with a buffet brunch followed by a traditional lion dance, Shaolin kung fu show and Chinese music. Other interactive activities include Chinese calligraphy, origami and a dragon jumping house for children.
DETAILS: $15-35, Feb. 10, 11 a.m. -3 p.m., Crowne Plaza Cabana, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
CONTACT: saba-usa.org/Love SpringFestival2008.html
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Avon’s Andrea Jung Joins Apple
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Avon Products CEO Andrea Jung recently joined Apple’s board of directors.
Before she began working for Avon in 1996, she was executive vice president of high-end retailer Neiman Marcus.
Jung is well-known for her management prowess. She has been one of Fortune’s 10 most powerful women in business for the last several years. She improved Avon’s sales by focusing on the growing market for consumer goods in China, experience that could help Apple refine its strategy for China as well.
— news.com
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First Asian President Elected To S.D. Bar Assn.
SAN DIEGO — Jerrilyn Malana was elected 2008 president of the San Diego County Bar Association.
In its 108-year history, Malana will be the ninth woman, the second lawyer of color and the first Asian American to serve as president. She is also a recipient of the 2007 Trailblazer Award, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s highest honor.
Malana has been recognized for her contributions to the Asian Pacific American community and for her efforts to increase opportunities for women, attorneys of color, and gays and lesbians.
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Cosmetics Guru Shu Uemura Dead At 79
Shu Uemura, the Japanese makeup artist who won acclaim in Hollywood and built an international cosmetics brand under his name, has died. He was 79.
Uemura, who gained acclaim working with actress Shirley MacLaine on the 1962 Hollywood film My Geisha, died of pneumonia in Tokyo on Dec. 29, according to a statement released by his company, also called Shu Uemura. Its products were mentioned in the more recent film The Devil Wears Prada.
His transformation of MacLaine into a Japanese beauty catapulted the young Uemura to renown within the U.S. show business community.
Uemura gradually expanded his brand to include handmade makeup brushes, perfumes and voluptuous fake eyelashes. The company’s eyelash curlers were mentioned in the 2006 movie The Devil Wears Prada, starring Meryl Streep.
The company, which has stores in New York, Paris, London and Hong Kong, was acquired by French cosmetics maker L’Oreal S.A. in 2004.
— Yahoo
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Crisostomo Named Managing Editor at ‘Pacific Daily News’
David V. Crisostomo has been named managing editor of the Pacific Daily News.
He replaces former Executive Editor Rindraty Celes Limtiaco, who in August was appointed to publisher and president of the Pacific Daily News.
Pacific Daily News is a member of Gannett Co. Inc., an international news and information company and the largest newspaper publisher in the United States.
Crisostomo began his career as a newsroom high school intern with the Pacific Daily News in 1992 and became a local news reporter in 1996. He worked his way up the ranks to be appointed local news editor in December 2002. He was named assistant managing editor in 2005.
Crisostomo is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. He also serves as a secretariat member of the newly formed Micronesian Media Association.
— Pacific Daily News
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Bleu De Chine
Fashion store Blanc de Chine will begin carrying its diffusion line, bleu de chine, in its Fifth Avenue flagship this spring.
Taking inspiration from a form of martial arts, bleu de chine’s debut spring/ summer 2008 men’s and women’s collections cater to an active and energetic lifestyle.
Sharing many similarities with Blanc de Chine, bleu de chine takes inspiration from Zen Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism. It incorporates elements of energy, durability and easy-care into each garment, keeping in mind lifestyle above all else in its designs.
This season’s line takes its influence from a Chinese minority tribe (the Naxi [nah-see] tribe, the only living culture who still uses the hieroglyphics system to communicate in writing) and the Zhong Shan jacket.
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