Lane Crawford

12 Sep 2010 - Hong Kong is slowly but steadily moving up on the ladder of international fashion. Luxury store Lane Crawford - with its stores omnipresent in the city - is greatly contributing to the city's new image of style and glamour. When visiting Lane Crawford nowadays it is hard to believe the shop was once nothing more than a humble shed. Lane Crawford has been serving the Hong Kong public for more than 160 years. The brand was founded by Scottish merchants Thomas Ash Lane and Ninian Crawford to provide goods to British crews and their families. It billed itself in the late 1880s as "the place to buy anything from a pin to an anchor". According to the company's website, Lane Crawford's first shop was housed in a makeshift bamboo structure on the waterfront of what is now Des Voeux Road on Hong Kong island. Today the luxury retailer stocks a wide selection of international brands in six stores, and is widely known for an eclectic collection of fashion and design items from around the world.