My parents rarely allowed television in the home.  I didn’t become accustomed to its presence, so I am rarely bothered that the set in my Beijing hutong home gets no signal. An unfortunate result, however, is that I have not seen Cao Difei hosting on Beijing Television (BTV). I had run into him several times without realizing that he was a bit famous.  Cao Difei grew up in a hutong in Beijing and has been at BTV since 2001.  More on him later.

This is rather interesting given that this actor (of the stage, I believe) is actually form Beijing.  I don’t know that I have ever glimsed someone as fashionable as with this particular color.

This look may be (mercifully?) less startling than the usual eye candy appearing here, but I rarely see traditional Chinese attire looking so nice.  It’s mainly the color.  London-born James Chau is morning and lunchtime presenter of CCTV-9’s News and World Wide Watch.   A contributor to the Evening Standard and the Sunday Mirror, he graduated from Cambridge University and King’s College London. Check his website, blog, and fanclub blog. James said he had heard that I was very “fun”.

Compare these lapels.  I had been meaning to introduce Mr. Jeffrey Ying, one of my main partners in crime.  He is staying in Beijing this summer, and I will do a more full profile in an upcoming post.

Qu Ying may be more well-known than Jeffrey, at least on this side of the Pacific.  I’m not keen on celebrities, but the unprecedentedly low notch on this coat from Stella Mccartney coat convinced me to photograph this model, singer, MC and actress.