NO MOUNTAIN behind, no water in front, but it was still a fengshui-ed event.

First we were sent north, east, south east, south west, north west (the five elements of a fengshui map) to find Mimolette, location for Shanghai Tang's Kaleidoscope showing.

Shanghai Tang is the international clothing company that set out to rejuvenate Chinese fashion, inspired fundamentally by bringing traditional Han design up to gong with the 21st century.

Back to Mimolette, yet another in the list of chi-chi (not short form for Chinese) places to be seen eating and drinking at (I am told air crew love its hideaway venue off Dunearn Road, off Eng Neo Avenue, in Fairways Drive).

Lovely bar and resto, taxi to and fro worth a brace of drinks already. There are signs not to honk in case you frighten the horses of the Saddle Club.

Kaleidoscope is the brand's autumn and winter 2009 collection and in parts, it shows off Peranakan influence.

Adoi, mak, is there no refuge nor respite to be had from the Little Nyonya, must the bibiks and the babas be all over the shop including Han dynasty baju?

As it turned out, this year's end collection was not overwhelmingly Peranakan-ed and Shanghai Tang remains true to its signature style.

It is consistently wearable, workable prints, with attention to its details and accessories.

Accessories is the new plus, and the showpiece is the Feng Shui Master watch, a sophisticated men's timepiece with unique hidden elements of the ancient Chinese system of aesthetics.

Its executive chairman, Mr Raphael le Masne de Chermont, who is based in Hongkong, opened the watch face to reveal its removable compass. Chinese culture chic.

Raphael has lived in the fragrant harbour 15 years and annually has a fengshui master visit his home and office for a harmony inspection, the basics of which are mountain behind and water in front.

Did you know a Chinese compass points south rather than north as in the western compass?

And where in Mimolette is the best seat for energy?

Oops, it appears to be where they have built a wall!

The watch is available from next month, in June, priced $965, and we don't know if a fengshui sifu recommended that figure.

This article was first published in The New Paper