Bonnae Gokson chatted with WWD about refreshing Sevva and her formidable fashion career.
HONG KONG — In many ways, it was every host’s worst nightmare. It was a mid-November day that Bonnae Gokson had scheduled to meet WWD to talk about her restaurant-bar Sevva, and immediately following she was to host a glittery reopening party for the venue. But that day, political protests, which had been agitating the city for half a year, abruptly sparked — this time, clashing in the heart of the city’s financial district.
“My goodness, when I first opened [it in 2008], I heard that some people said ‘she’s from the fashion field and she spends so much money she’s not going to last more than two years,’” Gokson said.A sea of chandeliers replaces what used to be a flower dome at the newly renovated Sevva. Courtesy “My whole life I’ve been in fashion, because my grandfather actually was in retail himself,” Gokson explained, “and he started one of Shanghai’s biggest and most luxurious department stores called Wing On, when Shanghai was the Paris of the East.” The stores still exist in Hong Kong, but her family is no longer involved and the chain has taken on a more mainstream positioning.
Started in June and completed in October, the renovations at Sevva may appear somewhat subtle, deceptively so, as the entire place was gutted.
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