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Stuck for Christmas gift ideas this year? Check out our Christmas gift guide for the best presents in the city.
FIT FOR A PRINCESS
These beautiful, elegant golden earrings wouldn’t be out of place on royalty. In fact, we have it on good authority that Kate Middleton herself is a big fan of drop earrings. Buy this pair for your loved ones this Christmas, at (we are guessing) a slightly lower cost than Prince William paid.
RMB 495. Oroton. Jing’an Kerry Centre, 1551 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Changde Lu. Tel: 5283 0063. Web: www.oroton.com
IT’S A WRAP
Make sure your female friends are wrapped up warm this winter. Winter jacket season may signal dull, boring, monotone jackets for some, but with this bright fuchsia jacket, ensure that your recipient stands out from the crowd.
RMB TBC. Ted Baker. 1563 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Tongren Lu. Tel: 5291 9559. Web: www.tedbaker.com
THE M DIARY
Give your friends the gift of organisation this year. The creative, imaginative talents of cinematographer Chris Doyle, photographer Greg Girard, artist Harold Wong and writer Emma Larkin, have created a collection of fabulous, fun and witty pages. With the M Diary, you can celebrate life as it should be lived: with style, a bit of quirkiness, good food, good drink and good conversation. The hardback, fabric-bound diary is available in restaurants and in shops in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Hangzhou and Suzhou.
RMB 350. Web: www.m-restaurantgroup.com
BAG IT UP
Every man needs a man-bag. Choose this black leather bag, with snakeskin accents, for the man in your life to use while he goes about his daily chores.
RMB TBC. Ted Baker. 1563 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Tongren Lu. Tel: 5291 9559. Web: www.tedbaker.com
BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE
Treat the little ones in your life to an achingly cute and quintessentially British dressing gown and pyjama set (sold separately). As temperatures drop, little bodies will be dying for bedtime to come around so that they can wrap up warm in their new, red bus-printed nightwear. Warning - you may struggle to get them out of their new items in the morning!
Dressing gown RMB 350, woven pyjama set RMB 330. Cath Kidston. 268 Xizang Zhong Lu, near Fuzhou Lu. Web: www.cathkidston.co.uk
PARTY GIRL
Buy these festive, metallic shorts for that person in your life who is always the first on the dance floor and the last to leave a party. Worn over tights, these shorts willsee any party girl worth their salt right through the festive season and into the New Year with a bang.
RMB 169. Forever 21. 233 Nanjing Dong Lu, near Henan Zhong Lu. Tel: 400 820 0236. Web: www.forever21.cn
EARTH FRIENDLY TRAVEL BAG
{eco&more} puts nature back into travel bags with this lightweight travel kit. The kit includes four body and hair care favourites, which are powered by the invigorating re-charge lemongrass essential oil. The toiletries are all free from harmful petrochemical ingredients and are rapidly biodegradable so you will also be helping to reduce the recipient's carbon footprint, and what is a better gift than that?
RMB 95. {eco&more}. Web: www.eco-more.com
