by Hiufu Wong
Wudai-Shiguo, better known as WDSG, is one of the most talked-about new shops that opened this week in Hong Kong's hottest indie shopping area, the Star Street neighborhood.
It's the passion project of six local designers who dismiss all the icons of Hong Kong as "clich�s."
"People think that Hong Kong means egg tarts, or when it comes to design it means the red, white and blue bags," says Kenji Wong, creative director of WDSG. "I don't think so."
Instead, Wong and the WDSG team are into 1930s Americana.
WDSG sells near-historically accurate reproductions of furniture from the United States and clothing by Mister Freedom and Ralph Lauren Leather.
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