//Hochong (right) with friends at a party in London, late 60s.//
Every Beautiful Thing… is the title of the forthcoming exhibition of extraordinary garments from the wardrobe of the late Michael Hochong, the French/Hawaiian/Chinese exquisite who, in the 70s, ran the Knightsbridge restaurant Michael’s (opposite the more famous establishment run by another Michael, Mr Chow).
Hochong also lived in some style in Tangier with John Koon (said to have been the instigator of the Chinese takeaway in the west). It seems the house they shared was an exact replica of Tara, Scarlet O’ Hara’s spiritual home in Gone With The Wind.
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Tags: Fitzgerald Blackman, Germinal Rangel, Gone With The Wind, Horse Hospital, Knightsbridge, Michael Hochong, Mr Chow, Port Of Spain, Roger Burton, Savile Row, Scarlett O'Hara, Tara, The Darjeeling Ltd, Trinidad
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