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So, you’ve done Fashion Week in New York, Paris and Milan. What’s next? Pack the couture and head east: Starting January, Asia experts Remote Lands take style-savvy travelers behind the velvet ropes at fashion weeks in China, India and Thailand. We’re talking backstage access, front-row seats and cocktail parties galore — starting at $15,000 per person for seven nights.
In Hong Kong, a fashion insider from the house of Joyce Ma will escort you to top shows (January 12-15). You’ll have a private consultation at Sonjia — one of the city’s most cutting-edge ateliers — where you can design your own evening gown. But the big bling awaits you in India, where Remote Lands leads a whirlwind jaunt of spring shows in Mumbai and Delhi in March 2009. Accompanied by a senior member of Hot Pink — India’s first self-styled “concept store,” located in the “Pink City” of Jaipur — you’ll hit the circuit in a chauffeured classic car. Get used to the attention: you’re also guest-of-honor at a dinner hosted by Delhi’s socialite extraordinaire Bina Ramani (the first Indian designer featured on the cover of Vogue). Then, it’s time to board a private jet to Mumbai, where you’ll visit a Bollywood film set and ogle the catwalks with an editor from the new, and controversial, Vogue India.
When it’s time to finally kick off the Manolos, you’ll have designer digs to match. In Hong Kong, it’s Philippe Starck’s award-winning JIA (getting a new bar and restaurant this month) and the new Four Seasons in Mumbai. In Bangkok, where Fashion Week hits late March, you’ve got your own villa on the Chao Phraya River — plus, exclusive use of a mid-century speedboat. Still, it’s in Delhi where you’ll be a true fashion pioneer, being among the first to stay at The Aman, New Delhi, opening next month. With just 39 rooms, including suites with private plunge pools, it will be the first city-based hotel for Amanresorts, a leader in remote-luxe.
