The Hebe Week In Pics

Found this! Shang Ting in 2008 in Barcelona, coolhunted for a magazine!Our boys I Call Shotgun performing for Harvey Nichols at the Leeds Freshers FairWorking the crowd in the Sunshine, weird watching the band without a beer ;)Half of I Call Shot Gun, Iain and Josh!World Curry Festival @ Victoria Gardens Bit of Catwalk action @ Leeds Bradford Airport! Shang Ting and i take in some culture @ Kirkstall AbbeyAbbey House has an amazing old street inside!STP looks superimposed into this photo! Now switch to the moon!Ello, ello, ello!Old school Shang TingLove this. Team Hebe vote pint! And as always, Lee's new shizzle! Hats this time round!

Far East Feature: Bubble Tea will change your world

When I heard Bubbleology, the original Taiwanese bubble tea was coming to Leeds for one day, I was so super excited I shivered and drooled for 2 days (stroke?). Bubble tea, also called pearl tea, is a traditional Taiwanese drink that became very popular in Asia in the 80s, and now world wide. An innovative drink combined with beverages and desserts.

"Having a cuppa." is such an important thing in British culture, in Asia, tea is also in our daily lifes, our bones, our blood, and our history. In Chinese culture, we create poems for good teas, we have wars fighting for them, we can say sorry, thank you, or good bye with the gesture of making a cup of tea, we need them in weddings, graduations, any occasion.

If you ever get to go to Taiwan, you will find little tea shops in every corner. In there, you get to customize your own favorite teas, from what kind of tea, warmth, how much sugar, to what do you want to add in there, including bubbles, jello, or even aloe vera and so on.

That's why when I went to Victoria Quarter last Saturday, and had my first drink of bubble tea for the last 15 months, I was so happy I could kick someone in the face(?). The Bubbleology's bubble tea is exactly how I remembered, the taste, the bubble, even the machine that packaged the cup! 

So if you're in London, you are very lucky as you can just pop into their shops. If you're in the North like me, join my prayers for them to expand here in the very near future. All hail Bubble Tea!

Leeds Street Style: 19/09/2011

Youngsters use of socks.
Hair colour, jumper's texture and the bagpack. It just works.Floral dress with headphone and trainers, nice mixture of girly and boyish.I think people might notice my fondness of homeless chic.I'm fascinated by this lady.Stylish!Guys with cute jumpers should be encouraged.There's something amazing about this shirt!Bare foot = new trend?

The Hebe Week In Pics

Nigel Martyn being interviewed by Bryn Law for Sky Sports Then i got on the mic! Showed them how it's done ;)Lee with the legend!And then i jumped in for one with Big Nige!STP at Leeds Loves Shopping launchLovely cakes in Anthony's in VQ (chocolate pistachio squares FTW!)Now you see them......now you don't!We caught up with the lovely Leeds Fashion Show Girls!East Street Arts giving an old school presentation including 'walking screensaver' :)Graffiti campaign in the city, Albion StreetLovely photo of Hunslet Church and rainbow captured by STP

Pals At Play: New Sister Brand of KitschenSink

Our good friend Rowan Grant and her jewellery brand KitschenSink have recently announced its sister brand Pals At Play, a collaboration between her and graphic designer Paul Jamie Kidd. So we think it's a great time to talk about Rowan's new work, and what we did in Leeds in Barcelona.

KitschenSink was founded in 2008, a fascination of colourful branded toys, and a desire to re-purpose mass-produced materials into handmade. She described her collections as "colourful, kitschy, funky and fun". Rowan's designs have previously been stocked in Selfridges London, and have been featured in Cosmopolitan and Company Magazine. We first met Rowan just days before Leeds in Barcelona, but it didn't take us long to decide that KitschenSink had to be one of the Leeds brands we showcase in Barcelona. And result, Barcelona leading fashion blog Lelook did a special feature of KitschenSink.

Picture from LelookPicutre from LelookPicture from Lelook

We're very excited to see within just 4 months since we worked with her, Rowan, and Paul have already produced a new collection that has had a major change in the material. I'm very fond of the Pals At Play collection, hope you like them as well.