by Shanghai shakes from the winter lulls. Between a new Prada restaurant, the first exhibition by Loro Piana, an Anne Uddenberg exhibition and several new types of dining, the city’s fashion scene is increasingly intertwined with local art and culture.
Here are some of the latest restaurants, shops and exhibitions in Shanghai.
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Where to eat
Prada, as seriously as it is about fashion, brings a piece of Italian cuisine to Shanghai with the opening of Mi Shang in Rong Zhai, the restored historic manor house in downtown Shanghai. The project was designed by the well -known director of Hong Kong, Wong Kar Wai, whose cinematic style influenced the interior of the restaurant. The Prada restaurant is located on the second floor of the four-story Rong Zhai and offers a full-day café service in addition to an upscale meal experience. The menu that is still too uninjured offers breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and evening cocktails. The opening date is March 31 and for booking the brand’s Wechat Mini program.
For a hearty meal after a long day in the Xintiandi area, go to the LU style, which serves the Northern Coastal Lu Cuisine – one of the four traditional kitchens in China. The restaurant is known for its large selection of seafood, its spacious dose of aromatics such as leek and garlic and his love for Jian Bing, a hearty crepe with structured fillings. In the LU style, the delicious street food extravagant with six homemade dips, which reflects the local culinary palette. Other dishes are braised sea curds with soybush sauce and Spanish mackerel bliss.
In the Xintiandi individual trading complex, the Balenciaga-enclosed Nu Xiang Mu Dou has updated Shanghainese cuisine, especially the sensitive soup dumpling since it opened almost two years ago. The merger dishes, including charcoal beef, pancakes with pistachios and foie grass, Iberico-damped buns and eggplants with fish taste with honey beans, are not only unforgettable dim-sum stories, but will certainly put a smile on their fashionable face.
The upscale lifestyle block in Rock Bund, in which the neighboring Pionier fashion art festival of the label shops of the labelscape -Pioneer -fashion art is located, recently welcomed a new Chinese dessert shop, Tangsuo or Jade Palace. Specialized in precisely manufactured desserts that resemble Jade carvings or happy -having good -looking old Chinese symbols, 24 solar terms revolve around in which Chinese tea and seasonal fruits are highlighted.
It is also worth crossing the bridge to explore the area of Suzhou Creek, which is increasingly littered with bistros and art galleries outdoors. Cometa, a restaurant that is a classic Italian cuisine with aromas inspired by Shanghaines Street Food, are embedded in an airy corner along the historic waterway. The cheeky attitude of Italian classics includes Chinese ingredients that lead to dishes such as Parmigiana Spring Rolls, Black Chicken Popcorn, drunk yarns -Carpaccio and saffron risotto.
Prada Mi Shang:
No. 186 West Shaanxi Road
Open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Lu style:
Room 207, 2f, Uni Elite, Spur 838, South Huangpi Road
Open daily from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Nu xiang mu dou:
No. 388 Zizhong Road
Open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Tangsuo:
No. 169 Xiejin Building, Building 1, AM103
Open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Cometa:
No. 1405 South Suzhou Road
On Tuesday to Friday from 3:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.
To see what to see
For Mode-Nerds, the Swedish artist Anna Uddenberg’s office-siren-meets dystopia performance is more relevant than ever before. For art world insiders, it is an opportunity to experience the latest chapter of her “Premium Economy” series in real life. In this performance, a group of airline-like actors leads the audience through a queue and carries out ritual, Japanese cable bonds inspired movements within the sculptures. The sculptural work lives in Tank Shanghai’s cave -like space with an accompanying video in which scenes are combined from previous reproduction.
For the first time in Shanghai, Prada Rong Zhai brings two prominent figures together in Italian art after the war to Shanghai. The exhibition entitled “Mirroring: Lucio Fontana and Michelangelo Pistoletto” creates a conceptual dialogue between the couple and 26 works from the late 1940s.
Loro Piana’s “If you know, you know” is not only the first fashion exhibition in the imposing art museum Pudong with a view of the federal government, but also one that fully commits the senses. The guests are invited to explore or touch some of the substances exhibited in the large gallery area that tell a fascinating story about the history of the brand and their mastery of luxurious fibers. The highlights include over 30 new fashion looks that were created especially for the show, and a mixture of works of art that reflect the cultural know-how of the brand.
As part of the official celebration on the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relationships with Saudi Arabia, “Ahmed Mater: Antenna” offers over 100 works that outlines the career of the renowned Saudi contemporary artist Ahmed Mater, whose research base outlines an unofficial story of Saudi Arabia about photography, film, sculpture and performance and performance.
“Premium Economy” until June 1st
Panzer T, Tank Shanghai
2380 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai
“Mirror: Lucio Fontana and Michelangelo Pistoletto” until June 15th
Prada Rong Zhai
No. 186 North Shaan Xi Road, Shanghai
“If you know, you know. Loro pianas striving for excellence” until May 5th
No. 2777 Binjiang Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai
“Ahmed Mater: Antenne” until June 8th
2f, No. 88 Xizang near Lu, Jing’an District, Shanghai
Where to shop
Uma Wang’s latest Maison Store, the largest local designer to date, hidden in a quiet road in the former French concession. After the business has designed the business itself that shows its growing vintage furniture collection, the new business offers a start -up in Wang’s aesthetics, which often collapses the Renaissance opulence with oriental reluctance.
As the largest business of Loewe in Shanghai, the “Golden Box” structure is a sight in the popular Jingan Temple Retail Corridor. The space over 7,000 square meters offers Loewe’s ready-to-wear, leather goods, accessories, jewelry and house fragrances. As with other Casa Loewe Stores, the Shanghai One also houses an impressive collection of works of art and ancient furniture by Ken Price, Han Dong, Axel Vervoordt and George Nakashima.
Gate M. is located along the former West Bund -Art -Corridor and offers a versatile mix of charming retail fronts, delicious restaurants, bars and sports facilities -such as a skate park and a bouldering fitness studio. At the center of the retail complex is Bloomarket, a concrete structure that is charged as the “China’s first Waterfront market”. The airy room offers up to 30 dining brands that focus on tasteful southwestern, northwestern and Cantonese cuisine.
Baixin Bookstore, Shanghai’s centuries-old bookstore, was renovated to a hub “cultural and lifestyle”, while the paper shop inside was brought up to date in a chic stationery shop with handmade paper, art paper and designer homeware.
Maison Uma Wang
No. 299 Fuxing XI Road, Shanghai
+86 21 6431 8019
Casa Loewe
1515 West Nanjing Road, Shanghai
Tor M.
No. 2266 Longteng dao, Shanghai
Super paper Sonic
No. 620 Fuzhou Road, Huangpu district
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