I believe that everyone has seen this movie, and the one who plays Zhou Xingchi's apprentice in the play must be very familiar to everyone, and Ge Minhui was once rumored to be the successor of Xingye.
Speaking of Hong Kong, the biggest influence on the mainland's trend culture is Hong Kong, hong Kong's trend culture is not exaggerated, just like its film output, affecting the mainland's love of trends, Chen Guanxi, Yu Wenle, Li Cansen, Mai Junlong and so on are outstanding contributors. Among them, Chen Guanxi is known as the godfather of China's trend, but in Hong Kong, there is a hip-hop representative figure who is more than ten years earlier than Chen Guanxi - Ge Minhui, Ge Minhui has made records, acted as an actor, acted as a director, hosted, opened a tide shop since his debut... Even known as the "godfather of the hipsters" in Hong Kong
Just mentioned Ge Minhui, everyone may be most familiar with him is his supporting role in Stephen Chow movie, Jackie Chan movie City Hunter, "Counting Dead Grass" or "Luck a Dragon" or "Super Invincible Chasing Girl" in the nonsense performance, are everyone's first impression of his screen, I was a child to see the dead grass for the first time to understand him.
These are just one of his many identities, and Ge Minhui's identities have been diverse from the beginning. Debuted as a host in 1988, and in the same year, he also formed a rap group "Soft and Hard Heavenly Master" with Lin Haifeng, and in the following years, in addition to making records, he hosted various variety shows, and he studied design, as early as 1994, he founded the design company double x workshop with Cai Yizhi of the grasshopper group, participated in the design industry in Hong Kong, and did record envelope design work.
Hong Kong's earliest contact with and like fashion artists are not many, and Ge Minhui happens to be the earliest batch, in 1997, Ge Minhui came to Japan with the film "After the First Entanglement", the role name of Takeshi Kanejo in the film is takahashi dun, at this time he has begun to like some Japanese brands, including UNDERCOVER managed by Takahashi Dun.
After the promotion of the film back to Hong Kong Ge Minhui also brought BAPE and UNDERCOVER and other brands back to Hong Kong, and opened BUSY WORK SHOP to become the exclusive agent, which is also BAPE's first overseas branch, at this time Ge Minhui, if placed now is also a veritable "king with goods", the United States Supreme, Stussy and XLARGE send clothes to him every year, hoping that he "brings goods", The Japanese trend brands that are constantly pouring into Hong Kong are also looking for Ge Minhui as an agent for the first time.
Subsequently, Ge Minhui, who loves fashion culture, set up his own fashion brand "4A like black", which was only black and white every season in the early days of its establishment, but when 4A was launched, it was more popular than BAPE, and the reason was because of 4A's guarantee of quality and quantity.
In 2008, his shop had a strange rule that it was open for two hours every night from 7 to 9 o'clock, and despite this, there was still a steady stream of visitors. There are also many big names that are jointly named with Ge Minhui chao brand, such as undercover or New Balance, etc., and the new balance 1400 shoe type orange is brought to the fire by Ge Minhui's feet, and it is said that every new balance will make a personal version of 1400 for Ge Minhui every year.
In 2011, NIGO sold BAPE to the Hong Kong I.T Group, I.T immediately found Ge Minhui, although the initial I.T was rich, but still not involved in the trend market, Ge Minhui cooperated with his own 4A and I.T, found Zhang Zhenyue and hot dogs, so there was a tide brand WAF
It may be that for the 90s and 00s, Ge Minhui's impression is only stuck in his classic films, but in the trend circle until today, most people think that Ge Minhui is the godfather of Hong Kong trends, and his glory to Hong Kong and his contribution to trend culture are worthy of this title!