In mid-January, Prof. Larry Richards participated in Hong Kong’s annual Fashion Week as a guest of the fashion house, Blanc de Chine, for whom Richards is a design consultant. He attended the Swiss Consulate’s ‘Swiss Hong Kong Fashion Night’ and was media spokesperson for Blanc de Chine for Chinese television and European fashion journals. Richards’ design for the expansion of Blanc de Chine’s Fifth Avenue store in New York is under construction, and he has completed conceptual work for the company’s second store in Beijing.