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Tiffany and Renee Tam are the trendsetting entrepreneurs and designers behind Old Shanghai. What started out as a traditional family business has flourished into an asian inspired lifestyle brand and retail destination located in San Francisco's Chinatown. The Tam sisters fuse a modern style sensibility with traditional asian designs in their home furnishing and fashion accessory collections. Old Shanghai is the fusion of tradition and culture new and old… Over time, my father’s business changed with the landscape of Chinatown. Now that we think about it, the stores have actually changed a lot over the years… it was only in the last 20 years have we seen such a strong interest in Asian culture. More and more people from all parts of the world come to Chinatown to find something “Asian.” With this idea in mind, my father, Tiffany and I want Old Shanghai to be the ultimate showroom in San Francisco for something new, something old, and of course, something “Asian.” You see some of the home furnishings in our store and it really takes you back in time. When I got married a few years back, my father picked out a few traditional items for me to have in my wedding such as these antique rosewood baskets for Chris (my nervous husband) and his family packed with gifts and blessings and brought over to my house to start the wedding day court ship. We first played the traditional games then Chris had to serenade me, and offer my family gifts in those large baskets. For my wedding ceremony, I wore the traditional qipao (long dress) and around us, we had much of the antique furniture that you can find in our showroom. We kept the wedding very “traditional.” Fast forward to the present and you can see that our concepts and designs are very much inspired by our traditional values and rich Asian heritage as well as today’s contemporary fashions. With every design, we want to keep the fashion chic but at the same time keep a sense of Asian heritage within it. Tiffany and I are avid shoppers so designing comes very naturally for us. We have a lot of traditional houseware, clothing, and accessories, but where we really let the creative juices flow is when we design our style of housewares, clothing, and accessories. We design it with today’s style trends in mind. Tiffany and I started off working in our father’s store when we were only 5 years old and today, we add the something “new” to Old Shanghai. Who are your style icons? What is your current style obsession?
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Top 5 essential handbag items 1. Renee, "I can’t go anywhere without my Old Shanghai silk jacquard business card holder, palm, cell phone" 2. Old Shanghai silk brocade cosmetic pouch 3. MAC blot powder
4. MAC “Fluid” lipstick
5. Shu Uemura concealer
6. Kiehl’s lip balm
Top 5 favorite secret spots in Chinatown 1. Golden Gate Bakery for the best Chinese pastries. Golden Gate Bakery, 1029 Grant Avenue, 2.Gold Mountain for dim sum. 644 Broadway. 415-296-7733 3. Hon's Wun Tun House for the best soup noodles. 4. Peking Bazaar for jewelry. 5. Tru Spa for amazing massages. 6. Old Shanghai for essential accessories and home décor.
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