News Now! | Abercrombie & Fitch Shanghai Opening April 2014...

We at #THEHOTTESTBLOG are totally stoked in anticipation for the upcoming opening of the great A&F Flagship store in Shanghai! To be the first Abercrombie & Fitch location in mainland China, A&F Shanghai will be the epic followup, in the greater Chinese market, to the historic opening of A&F Hong Kong back in August 2012. Fellow Fitches, polish up your Chinese!

Advantageously situated in the nation's fashion capital (and showpiece of China's roaring and ever rising economic might), A&F Shanghai is a part of the all-new, upscale Jing An Kerry Centre (静安嘉里中心) mix-use development at the bustling commercial heart of the city's Jing'an (静安区) central district. Realized to offer premium offerings in retail, residence, hotel (Jing An Shangri-La), and office space, the Jing An Kerry Centre is addressed at 1515 Nanjing Road West (Nanjing Xi Lu; 南京西路) – a street lined with Shanghai’s most luxurious shopping centers and part of the greater Nanjing Road (南京路) which, stemming perpendicularly from the world-renowned Bund (外滩), ranks as one of the busiest shopping streets on the planet!

We now provide you with an exclusive preview of A&F Shanghai – with which you are able to observe this latter-half year's progress – via the wonderful photography of expat Travis F....

How about that last shot. Strikingly beautiful at dusk...

While the paramount opening in Hong Kong was for setting foot into the greater Chinese market, A&F Shanghai will solidify the foundations of the Abercrombie & Fitch brand in China for the future henceforth. It is from the Pearl of the Orient (as Shanghai is so poetically addressed) that the Casual Luxury purveyor will directly entice with its energy and cool and increment significant awareness of itself across the psyche of the mainland Chinese consumer landscape.

Initially, Abercrombie & Fitch in Shanghai was anticipated to open during the Company's Christmas 2013 fashion season. However, construction circumstances regarding the greater Jing An Kerry Centre development pushed the planned date back. As you can see from that last image above, the Abercrombie & Fitch structure has already neared completion closely in line with original plans.

A&F Shanghai will now most appropriately open in April 2014 – a spring month annually highlighted by fashion spectacle subject to national attention. In past time, the month has kicked off, in new-found tradition, with the annual event of the Dior Haute Couture Spring-Summer presentation in a gathering of esteemed Chinese clients and China's of-the-moment celebrities. Shanghai Fashion Week (上海时装周) then subsequently commences; and if scheduling trends go unchanged in 2014, the fashion week will begin on April 9 and last until April 15. Strategically, promotion of the Abercrombie & Fitch flagship will then gain exclusive preeminence leading up to the now planned opening day on Saturday, April 19, to finish off the month with #ABERCROMBIEHOT FIERCE flair...

#ABERCROMBIESHANGHAI!

Stay FIERCE!

P.S. DISCOVER MORE all about A&F上海 (here)!



A&F SHANGHAI
IS NOW OPEN!
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UPDATE (19 APRIL 2014): A&F Shanghai is now open! Read the exclusive opening day report you will only find at #THEHOTTESTBLOG, (here)!

Written content © C.E.R. for The Sitch on Fitch. Research by C.E.R. and Cameron J. for The Sitch on Fitch. Images in this post © Travis F.

Models Profiled! | Camille Rowe – Part II...

Enamoring with her beautiful persona and unique beauty, Camille Rowe commands a very special place at The Sitch on Fitch for being our first ever featured model upon the 2010 launch of #THEHOTTESTBLOG. Of course, much has changed and happened since then. Most recently, we caught up with what our girl Camille has been up to – in highlight of her ever flourishing career – now finding herself in new heights! (Check out the hot Part I)! Let's just say locking lips with Robert Pattinson can very well constitute stardom...

For this exclusive Part II, Editor-in-Chief C.E.R. pulled out from its protective setting his own personal A&F Quarterly "Screen Test" 2010 edition. Featuring photography by our icon Bruce Weber, the great collectible encompasses exceptional imagery set in the fictional "A&F Studios" and also comprises profiles of young artists of diverse backgrounds in talent. Focusing on Camille, and guided by a personal aesthetic and perspective, C.E.R. personally photographed this wondrous A&F Quarterly edition for your insight and enjoyment...

WARNING!

N  .  S  .  F  .  W  .

THIS POST CONTAINS NUDITY

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Pin your favorites

from our Pinterest board, (here)!

#WELOVECAMILLE!

Stay #FIERCE!

← CAMILLE ROWE (PART I)   |   CAMILLE ROWE (PART II)

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THIS IS HAS BEEN THE SEVENTH IN MODELS PROFILED!,

A SERIES OF POSTS HIGHLIGHTING EXCEPTIONAL ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO.

MODELS WHO'VE GONE ON TO MAKE THEIR MARK!

← KARLIE KLOSS (5TH)   |   CAMILLE ROW  |  SAGE NICOLE HUMPHRIES →

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Photography in this post by C.E.R. for The Sitch on Fitch. Original photography in the A&F Quarterly "Screen Test" 2010 edition by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch.

Photo Exclusives! | Abercrombie & Fitch Hong Kong Flagship Store Details...

In this latest installment of Photo Exclusives!, THE HOTTEST BLOG presents to you an exquisite photographic look into the #ABERCROMBIEHOT grandeur of Abercrombie & Fitch at the historic Pedder Building in Hong Kong. For the admiration of the passionate A&F aficionado are exceptional details as hallmarks of an iconic A&F Flagship though, too, presenting heritage elements unique to the historical Hong Kong location...

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#WELOVEHONGKONG!

Pin your favorites onto your amazing #ABERCROMBIEHOT board on Pinterest (here)! And if you missed our correspondent Patrick's previous photography set of A&F Hong Kong at night, then be sure to check it out (here). It's breathtaking...

#StayFIERCE!

The Sitch on Fitch thanks its Irish correspondent, Patrick Mooney, for his photographic contributions. Images in his post © Patrick Mooney for The Sitch on Fitch. Images may not be used/altered without permission by the author. Written content © C.E.R.

Photo Exclusives! | Abercrombie & Fitch Hong Kong Flagship at Night...

Night befalls upon Hong Kong as veil of electric grace noir illuminated by its multitudinous lights in dance delight! In such wondrous setting, as a global spot of cool can offer, is where our Irish correspondent, Patrick, found himself at in exploration of what the pulsing night beholds instore. However, for an A&F enthusiast, what can be of more a pleasure then happening across the residence of Abercrombie & Fitch – the Pedder Building; its historical resplendence gorgeously alit in elegance...

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...purely breathtaking. A&F Hong Kong – addressed at 12 Pedder Street, and occupying the basement and first three levels of the Grade II Pedder Building – radiates #ABERCROMBIEHOT in Hong Kong Island's financial and luxury mecca, Central district.

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The Sitch on Fitch thanks its Irish correspondent, Patrick Mooney, for his photographic contributions. Images in his post © Patrick Mooney for The Sitch on Fitch. Images may not be used/altered without permission by the author. Written content © C.E.R.

Photo Exclusives! | Abercrombie & Fitch Fifth Avenue: A Photographic Pass-by...

Located on the corner of 5th Ave and West 56th Street is one of the greatest consumer attractions on New York City's world renowned Fifth Avenue. The ultimate mecca for FIERCE fans around the world, the Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store in Midtown Manhattan stands as the commanding, original A&F Flagship in the modern era of the American icon's 121 year history. Here, French photographer Charles Marion shows us snapshots of his passing-by during a trip to the Big Apple...

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The Sitch on Fitch thanks photographer Charles Marion for his contributions to THE HOTTEST BLOG. Photos in this post are by Charles Marion, for The Sitch on Fitch, and they may not be used/altered without permission by the author. ALL images © Charles Marion. Written content © C.E.R.