Filed under: - Jo, 2009 Autumn/Winter, Design, Desirables, Inspirables, Runway Reviews | Tags: Fall 2009, Fashion, Fashion Week, Knitwear, Milan, Missoni, Style
Missoni’s Fall 2009 presentation in Milan makes me wanna take multiple double takes.
The overall formula for styling each look? Layer. Everything. Maybe two of some pieces in a different print and fabric. Just. Spam. The. Layers.
It’s nice to see them look so snugly swaddled in knits, probably feeling toasty and warm! I hope you have fine weather to go with this collection. I, for one, am already feeling warm in nothing but an old phy ed tee and shorts in my room. Crazy Singapore weather.
I like the chunky cold gold, long, layered necklaces that double up as belts.
Gangstaa in da hoood.
Again! Another collection which wants me to get a complete wardrobe overhaul. Throw out all the black and replace it with happy hues!
Not digging the mule-heel in the middle.
Knit, has of course a long standing attachment with Missoni. But has it ever been so in-your-face? Knit over knit over knit over knit over knit and OVER knit again on model, after model, after model?
I’m savouring every bit of it anyway! Are you?
Pictures from style.com
Filed under: - Jo, 2009 Spring/Summer, Design, Desirables, Inspirables, Random, Shopping | Tags: Fashion, Hansel, Shopping, Singapore, Style, workwear
It’s plain to all (fashion-savvy Singaporeans) that hansel is the go-to label for fun and feminine and office-appropriate attire.
The business student in me (actually it IS me ): ) yields to this kinda look sometimes. Because no one wants to be a shirt, pants and kitten heels bore among the concrete corporate jungle wannabes.
Now only if I have the business executive kinda income to boot.
Anyway.
Cue hansel’s Fantastic Jurassic collection!
I like that we get special prints from hansel now and then. What’s not to love about dinosaur leisurely sauntering about crayon-created terrain?
(Dottie: if you’re reading this, the light blue dress in the middle just looks like it’s meant for you. I don’t know why!)
Contrast bows and, correct me if I’m wrong… hints of dinosaur anatomy? You know… maybe the plates and spikes atop the back of a stegosaurous.
I love the knit dress in the middle.
Crazily big bows on the front of the dress and skirt are strangely alluring, don’t you think? Again, I kinda feel some dino innit.
And having spent a few hours perusing photos of Serena van der Woodsen or Blake Lively on the red carpet, I’ve seen through her not-so-secret receipe to a stunning evening look.
Well first, you must have lots of TNA (tits ‘n ass) that will show well and round (lol) in… (drumroll) super deep v neckline dress and empire waisted. (Yes she doesn’t wear v-neck gowns ALL the time, but that’s what I recall MOST of the time)
That’s why the last long dress is something I can imagine on Serena van der Woodsen.
OMG I miss Gossip Girl ): Come back already!
On another note, hansel now has an online store, and a blog!
Woot.
Now back to the books. Burn those books!
Filed under: - Jo, Inspirables, OMGWTFBBQ, Random, Street/Scene Style, Trends | Tags: Fashion, funny, Lookbook, Style
Chekkid outzz. What my sister typed into my browser today.
lookbook.nu + lol = lolbook.nu
style files captioned by fly & mighty
lol.
LOL.
I think that’s how a lot of us looked like after camille’s shredded tee DIY post.
ROTFL!
Sometimes, I think we all fall for the too-cool looks and poses, and then we (and/or I) try to replicate it.
Then it takes someone else to point out how ridiculous we look.
Okay so some of them don’t look ridiculous style wise, but some poses (and expressions!!) call for an eyebrow wiggle or two.
Filed under: - Sarah, Art, Events, OMGWTFBBQ, Our Style, Outfit Photos | Tags: 21st, Colours, Colours-per-Outfit Ratio, food, themed party, Wacky, Weird, Wonderful
For a 21st Birthday Bash attended over the weekend, invited guests had to come dressed in the randomly assigned colours, as stated on the invite.
It was great to see (almost) everyone enthusiastic about the theme. The place was a psychedelic explosion of bright poster colour paints!
Unbeknown to the hosts, their food seem to sublimely follow the theme…
Sliced cucumber and avocado on a lime green plate.
Marshmallows
Table candy & snacks
Perhaps the Polaroids can attest to how weird, wacky and wonderful the party was!
And to add to the wackiness, I felt it only fair to do something a bit different…
hahas. the headlessness is completely unintentional
But anyway,
Happy 21st, Hot Babes!! (:
Filed under: - Jo, Magazines, Random | Tags: Academy Awards, Alber Elbaz, Fashion, Lanvin, Oscars, Red Carpet, Style, Tilda Swinton
Off-script as usual, was how style.com described Tilda Swinton’s almost-signature off-beat read carpet style.
From yesterday at the Oscars – a two piece Lanvin ensemble.
I thought it was lovely. The opposing direction of the drapes on the top and bottom. She always has such great accessories too. Not quite sure about the shoes though.
When she picked up a statuette last year – a long black Lanvin dress that got the words “trashbag” and “crow” on people’s lips.
I loved the contrast, between her dress and skin, dress and hair, hair and skin.. Then you notice her eyes… Ooooh. Clever.
All these appearances is courtesy of Lanvin’s Alber Albaz, who can almost be described as Tilda’s BFF for the red carpet, save for the fact that it seems a bit odd to say so.
(Imagine tight Alber-Tilda hug and air kiss)
Fashion Group International’s 24th Annual Night of Stars honoring “The Rule Breakers” in 2007
Notice the lack of tight hug and air kiss. All is sealed with a casual arm hook. Do you not covet Alber’s bowtie?
While Tilda has received lots of flak for her supposed red carpet dress distress (she doesn’t look that bad… does she?), she sure looks like she enjoys draping herself in avant garde wares, or in some instances, lending her avant garde/quirky quality to the garments.
Or maybe she likes the silly reactions she gets – us minions fussing about her strange sartorial choices when she knows that she pulls them off perfectly.
At the 17th Annual BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards in 2008. A polka dotted long dress from Lanvin Resort 2009.
I didn’t know her hair was THAT short along the sides. That aside, I love this best. It almost seems a bit too fun for Tilda.. but tall, loose silhouette and charming details? Check!
I think that quirky quality about her, along with her off-screen, off-script fashion sense garnered her quite a few photoshoots. I haven’t come across anyone of her age and status (more artist, serious actress, less celebrity, less model) who was as sought after among magazines. (More on Tilda in magazines later!)
Which do you think describes her better? Wearing avant garde or making avant garde?
Pictures from style.com, red carpet fashion awards and random googling.
Filed under: - Sarah, DIY, Events, Our Style | Tags: Brunch, pancakes, Special, Tea, the Girls, Valentine's Day
Ok. This comes really late but…
Valentine’s was spent with the Girls.
They painstakingly made heart-shaped pancakes (which involved manually buttering the tin heart to prevent the batter from sticking) as well as normal pancakes (although they insist that the bubbles and concentric circles make the pancakes look alien, thus inedible).
But of course, pancakes by their lonesome selves don’t go down as well as when accompanied by…
Fresh fruits such as bananas, blueberries and strawberries, honey AND whipped cream.
We also wrote small notes and gave one another flowers; rounded off with our always-exciting staple — Taboo!
Tea, of course, was the other staple… for myself, at least (:
And like I’ve said before,
Pancakes any other way should be a sin!
Filed under: - Jo, Desirables, Inspirables, OMGWTFBBQ, Street/Scene Style
I miss my boyfriend. He has been out in the wilderness hacking plants, feeding mosquitoes, planning missions, roughing it out and generally out of contact with the wired world.
But in his absence I have found gorgeousness (somehow adding -ness makes it sound like the superlative of it) personified.
Oooh those eyes.. and those yummy layers! Leather. Cute geeky classes.
I look at him.. and then I see him looking back at me! I think I’m in love!
This too! I’m a sucker for cute tousled hair.
Both from the sartorialist
On a totally unrelated note: who are that strange 200+ people who find their way to this blog via googling “Gossip Girl”? and that six of you who got here by googling “crazy girl”? There is all of ONE mention and/or tag of “Gossip Girl” in all of its full alliterative splendour before the birth of this post. Strange. Anyway. I should be analyzing India’s economy, financial markets and accounting methods, not blog numbers.
Boyfriend come home! ):
Filed under: - Jo, 2009 Autumn/Winter, Desirables, Inspirables, Runway Reviews
Despite the blistering heat, suffocating humidity and dizzying haze in sunny Singapore, Koi Suwannagate won my heart over and left me wanting to be draped in wholesome thick knits and cashmere.
Subtle hints at deconstruction under the arms and at the sleeves, complete with perfectly pruned clutters of rosettes at the shoulders and shoe straps!
Lots of panelled bottoms, like pants and skirts to elongate the whole silhouette, and according to Koi herself,
I love the beige ensemble below. The sheer inside, the rosettes on the vest, contrast buttons, beaded fingerless gloves, pearl cigarette pants – ooooooohhhhh.
She plucks the usual colours from autumn but births them into gorgeous pieces like it’s spring.
How can a colour like rust – RUST! look so good on legs?!?!
The almost mandatory black and whites in all collections. Nice cape though!
There’s something familiar about her collection, not in a bad copycatty kinda way. It just makes me feel really comfy.
Thoughts?
All pictures from style.com
Filed under: - Jo, Events, Our Style, Sales, Shopping | Tags: apron, cast iron pan, Fashion, Flowers, Le Creuset, muji, Style, Valentine's Day
On Valentine’s Day… it’s not what you wear, but what you hold!
What you hold in your hands and in your heart (<3! aw!), of course (:
I, for one, was holding a bouquet of pretty peonies and mini cherries called hypericum. Instant happiness guaranteed. I couldn’t help but secretly gloat about my flowers to my boyfriend and myself as I witnessed alarming arrangements make their way down Dhouby Ghaut in the arms of uninitiated bearers.
My mum’s a florist, so naturally, I love flowers, and am also very critical of flowers.
Sprays of baby’s breath stink. Gerberas (or what some think are big daisies) don’t go with baby’s breath. Flowers should not talk, or have faces in the middle of them. The highlighter shade of pink should only appear in pink highlighters – not the wrap on bouquets!
(By the way, I think Sarah would received some happiness in a bouquet, because her boyfriend, Bren bought a gorgeous bouquet of red tulips in a velvet wrap from my mum too!)
That aside! I took this day (and the massive sale at Tangs!) as an excuse to get Alan his dream cast iron pan, an apron from Muji and other kitchen related stuff.
Le Creuset is a French cookware manufacturer that specializes in creating enamelled cast iron cook ware in the brightest of colours! Orange is kinda like their signature, but I got the red one instead.
Look how serious he is at cooking! hahaha.
We had grilled salmon with spaghetti carbonara for dinner and it was sooo awesome!
We haven’t made carbonara (or cooked together for that matter) for a really long time, and tasting it kinda make me wanna explode happiness! cream! rainbows! ponies! and sugary treats! like a nice colourful pinata.
So it’s all these little explosion of feelings and remembering little things that I hold close, aside from that gorgeous bouquet of peonies, which is comfortably residing on my table (despite the horrible mess!).
PS. Don’t say flowers are a waste of money because they last only a day or two. All my cut flowers last at least a week and if you tell them “I love you” everyday, they’ll last, maybe… two weeks? 
I’m serious.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you!
How to wear yellow.. without blinding your neighbour, and having the whole world notice that you’re wearing the brightest and most intense colour in anybody’s palette.
Take a cue from the cool crowd outside the fashion week tents.
“OMG you’re wearing yellow!” – or insert any random colour (usually red or pink) other than black, grey, white and beige – is the kind of reaction I get from some of my friends when I go to school. Do you get comments like that too?
I would almost never allow track pants (kinda warm and icky for Singapore weather) and lime (it’s well… lime) in my wardrobe but oooh why does it look so perfect on Susie Bubble? Maybe the colour perks people up a little. Like Susie said, she was actually half asleep when the photo was being taken.
Anyway, on our side of the earth, a slew of exams is about to come our way. Bad shiz. No one likes exams. No time to talk about cool shows and such.
Laterzz!
All pictures from style.com by the sartorialist
