Filed under: - Sarah, 2009 Spring/Summer, Advertorials, Design, Feature, Outfit Photos, Trends | Tags: Ecochic, Feature, Review, Triumph
Triumph has jumped onto the Green bandwagon and is lobbying for Ecof-fashion – where Conscience meets Fashion.
If you head down to unmentionables (aka lingerie) section of Tangs Orchard, Level 2… In the large(r) clearing just yonder of the Triumph counter, you’ll be pleasantly greeted by this display setup. (:
Using wood and dried bamboo as the stands, shelving and display counters, they’ve decked out their eco-friendly line, Ecochic.
Promising to balance fashion and fit while pledging to use only sustainable, natural materials, you can find out more about the concept behind Ecochic, view the collection,watch their commercial or even download promotional media here.
In addition, they’ve launched a micro-site especially for Ecochic with the purpose of having an online portal for fashion and eco-conscious women to meet and share their stories.
Not forgetting, also on the Ecochic calendar is a Green Workshop. Scheduled to take place at the Dressing Room @ Tangs Orchard, Level 2 on 29 August, Saturday. Registration starts at 2pm and the first 50 customers to make Ecochic purchases will get a goodie bag.
Doubt these cute hangers will be part of the goodie bag though.. hahas. (I’d want them!)
The Ecochic line bears the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 stamp, which according to dear ol’ Wiki, serves as a quality assurance tool for the manufacturer, testing for the absence of harmful substances like farm drugs, pesticides and excessively harmful dyes.
Instead, they’ve injected colour into the collection, using natural dyes to provide some variety and even went through the pains of weaving a striped fabric specially for this collection.
Who doesn’t love variety?!
Well, the kind people at Triump gave this camisole and shorts combo to try out, in the natural-dye striped fabric (that wasn’t on display, so I have NO clue how much it retails for…).
And although camis aren’t usually my thing, the fit and feel was very comfortable (I slept very soundly that night 
). It didn’t feel like the straps were biting into me. The material had a lot of stretch and didn’t cling to my skin. And the fabric felt like a thicker (better quality) version of cotton jersey but with an additional subtle, but comfortable, textured feel.
Top: Ecochic by Triump Camisole Top, in striped fabric
(Inner) Bottoms (not seen): Ecochic by Triumph Shorts, in striped fabric
(Outer) Bottoms: Giraffe-print Pajamas pants
Arm candy: Crocodile
And despite the chilly Saturday night rain and even with arms completely exposed, I was nice and warm. (:
Wottoncool <3s Mother Earth,
love her too (:
Filed under: - Sarah, Bazaars/Fleas, Beauty/Make-Up, Design, Desirables, Events, Giveaway, Inspirables, OMGWTFBBQ, Shopping, Street/Scene Style, Trends, Vintage | Tags: Clubbing, Flea Market, Indulge, Shopping, Zouk
Last Wednesday,
whilst hopping between Mambo and Phuture with some friends from school,
I noticed…
Flea & Easy – the Beauty and Feast Edition
2 August 2009, Sunday
2pm to 8pm
Zouk, Phuture and Wine Bar
In my very sleep-deprived state, I could do with some pampering and retail therapy!
(a.k.a. Another reason to shop and indulge! 
)
Filed under: - Jo, Feature, Our Style, Outfit Photos, Shopping, Trends | Tags: Fashion, Fashion advice, Fashion Advisors, Memphis, Personal shopping, Style advice, Topman, Topshop
I’m not one to give fashion advice.. whatever goes for me! Neither am I one to be seeking fashion advice because what if I realise that I not just fail at fashion, but fail horrendously!
Still, I went to try out (alone – since Sarah is away in Israel), how the whole fashion aunt agony thing works…
Annie is a fashion advisor from the Topshop outlet at Marina Square and she will be in Tampines 1 giving away her two cents worth on fashion and style for you!
She’s quite a cool character I must say.
When I first saw the stone wash circle skirted overall from Topshop on the racks, I gagged. Punk rock Alice in Wonderland, anybody?
I like her outfit because she made me like the stone wash overall, the cream lace leggings don’t look like they belong to another heepsturrr, she’s wearing all the colours I’ve been trying to add to my wardrobe. I got a light wash denim shirt from Uniqlo and just loads of cream coloured stuff recently.
I was just wearing jeans, tee and a vest multi-wear vest from Baylene because critical thinking (managerial accounting – wtf?) during exams (yes on a Saturday!) call for comfy clothes.
Turns out fashion aunt agony isn’t very aunt agony at all. It’s more like a personalized shopping service. You book an appointment with the fashion advisor, she gets ready some stuff she thinks you might like before you arrive. When you do, she shows all of these to you, then walk you about the shop as well to show you all the rest that’s on the racks and run you through the trends that are surfacing.
Sounds like something I’ll do when I marry a rich husband, make many tai-tai ( think socialite) friends, and play mahjong so much that I don’t have time to shop.
But this service still is pretty appealing because you get quite a bit of privacy and have no need to shove yourself in the crowd to get something.
Annie picked up a few pieces for me from the Memphis collection. Three looks – black embriordered dress, floral playsuit, and a bright roses prom skirt paired with a navy vest.
You must bear in mind that all these were a little overwhelming for me. The colours, the prints, and such a happy! background that I’m supposed to pose with.. Without my partner-in-crime, and not even my boyfriend!
But in the end I kinda went a little, “O well I don’t have such happy prints at home so I might as well go all out and pick myself something I’ll never wear and document my valiant attempt.”
So I picked out all these to wear. All at the same time.
On hindsight, I should have just gone with what Annie proposed cos I think I will look a little less ridiculous. A little less like a Hawaiian rice farmer-trishaw rider.
I should also have taken the shades that Annie offered so that no one will recognise me.
Tampines 1 is giving you a chance to get free style/fashion advice from Topshop and Topman’s Fashion Advisors! Simply produce a receipt from any outlet within Tampines 1 at the atrium and get the camera rolling. Last day tomorrow – 3 May!
Filed under: - Jo, Inspirables, Magazines, Random, Shopping, Trends, ebay | Tags: Fashion, Fashion Design, Luxury, Newsweek, Quality Clothing, Style
Over the weekend, I’ve had a revelation of sorts. Not only because it’s been Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday (don’t you like it that they all have names?), but my boyfriend passed me a recent issue of Newsweek to read.
Jonathan Tepperman wrote about “The Case for Luxury. The savvy shopping buys less but spends more in hard times.”
Basically, he talks about the ton of shirts, pants, suits, denim, coats he owns – most from high street stores, a select few from high fashion labels. Out of the mass of clothing are The Chosen Few. The most loved, most worn items, which only make up a small fraction of his entire wardrobe. So he proposes that we spend more and invest in luxury pieces than misappropriate our funds into smaller (and possibly regrettable) purchases at lesser lux places.
It makes sense to me. Over the past year I’ve shopped the most at Baylene, Giordano Concepts, Topshop and eBay. (This month alone I’ve only shopped at Uniqlo – that’s impulsive and scary.)
With the money I squandered away over the past year I think I might be able to get me
- just the sling of a Chanel 2.55
- one side of a pair of Repettos
- the platform sole (or maybe just the stiletto heel) of a YSL Tribute Pump
- one sleeve of a usually double sleeved (no kidding :O) Rick Owens leather jacket
and I dunno.. any suggestions?
If luxury labels and comfort are always perfectly directly correlated, I would love to own a pair of Chanel or Lanvin flats. I haven’t got to trying a pair from either on though.
I believe that one pair of comfortable flats and one pair of comfortable heels will get me through anything. Do comfortable heels exist? Besides say er… Clarks?
Anyway!
It’s a struggle for me because you’re giving up variety. Although sometimes I tend to buy the same things over.. Like I have 3 black vests, 2 black.. no but you see they all are different, like this one has a sheer… okay I’ll stop explaining myself.
Maybe the author is speaking from an entirely different context for an audience that is not me… The ones who read Newsweek not because school forces them too, but the articles are their bread and butter, and the advertisements are of products they can actually afford – Rolex, LV luggages, Singapore Airlines (yea nowadays I only fly budget, and only go to the countries as far as the airline goes).
Either way I think it’s a good way for me to go, because if I save up for that something big, and if for some reason or other I end up not buying it, I end up with a happy balance in my bank account.
(starts chanting “Less is more, less is more. Less is more!”)
Read the original Newseek article here.
Filed under: - Jo, OMGWTFBBQ, Trends | Tags: Alexander Wang, Basics, Fashion, T by Alexander Wang, Trends
Finally, T by Alxander Wang has started making its rounds around retailers.
But I don’t think I’m coveting these basic babies anymore. Look at the price!
The horror! $75 for barely one metre of “luxurious” 100% rayon. Are there hidden seams? Is it an exquisite cut? (Actually just ginormous holes…)
And WTF the sizes SOLD OUT?!
Please just cut up an old t-shirt. or go nekkid.
From IDLM
Filed under: - Jo, Inspirables, Magazines, Models, Trends | Tags: Cosmopolitan, Fashion, Goong, Korea, Korean Dramas, Korean Wave, Magazines, Princess Hours, Style, Vogue
About a decade or so ago, say “Korea” and people think of kimchi.
Say the same thing now, and chances are, housewives and schoolgirls will spew a myriad of names of Korean musicians, TV personnalities, movie stars, drama serials, and the like. (This of course, disregarding the disparity of North and South Korea – fans don’t have time for this.)
Korea has set foot in many industries like steel producing, automaking, consumer electronics, shipbuilding, robotics, and needless to say, entertainment.
So it’s interesting to see popular Korean personalities do the same – dabble in a domain other than their own.
I can’t say that I’ve caught the Korean wave myself, but I was, and still am deeply obsessed with one particular drama serial – Princess Hours (Goong).
If you watch it, you’ll be absolutely smitten with Chae Kyeong and Shin. I was.
I recall one episode when there was a scene whereby Shin (played by Joo Ji Hoon) was bathing, and the audience was treated to frames of him half nekkid. (Doesn’t nekkid sound more naked than… naked?) I was having a simultaneous conversation over MSN with my friend who was equally obsessed. And we launched into a fury of wanting to be random toilet objects like the carpet and towel because they got to see Joo Ji Hoon in his full glory.
Ooh. That’s part embarassing and part exciting to tell. I WANT JOO JI HOON!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway. The great part about this is that these actors go into other areas like singing… and modelling. And most of the time they do a pretty good job of it.
Vogue Korea – March 2009
Who knew she could work it like that?
Cosmopolitan Korea – December 2008
I think if you’re an actress in Korea, it’s inevitable that you fall into a big hole along with the other new artistes called “cute trap”. Luckily, this isn’t as irksomely and irritably cute as what you’ll see on TV.
Vogue Korea – December 2007
What I think was her best shoot (and most uncharacteristic of her) to date..
Strange… but it gets more surreal when a celebrity stops becoming a celebrity in a photoshoot.
I have to add that her fans did not appreciate this photoshoot one bit.
“sometimes i just don’t understand haute couture…why (do) they (have to) make her (look) so ugly?”
“Sigh… same here.
And what’s with the tutu anyway???”
And here I am thinking it’s pushing boundaries for her
From qinatthedisco, AF, crunchyroll, k-popped, kimshey
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, Our Style, Outfit Photos, Shopping, Travel, Trends | Tags: Backpack, Bag, Comfort, Good Old Days, happies, Outfit Photos
Even though I am into my fourth week of school. It was only less than a week ago that I came to the realization that I attend 7 classes in my 5-day week! (6 classes plus one, where I sit in as a Teaching Assistant)
Which, on top of translating into being utterly worn by the end of each week, also doubles as a preemptive warning for the sparse updates on my part (But I promise to do my very best!)
But, despite whatever curve balls school may throw my way, I always feel that surrounding yourself with your Happies help (:
Old(ish-looking) Bag: from mom
New Dress: Gap (from sister)
Borrowed Tank: from sister
Blue Vest: my childhood
Tired face: SMU
Wardrobe choices, most recently, have been determined by the culmination of long hours (10++) in school, meetings (both frequency & duration), classes and the number of books I have to carry.
This long, tiered, purple, cross-back cotton jersey dress is a god-send! It is uber comfortable, yet everyone seems to think its ‘difficult’ to wear. When I disclose that this dress set my sister back $12 (purchased in Indonesia), in my heart, I smile with glee! hehes
Whats more,
This backpack 1. Frees up my hands to switch textbooks & laptop from one tired hand to another. 2. Distributes the weight in my bag to BOTH shoulders. 3. Forces me to carry fewer ‘essentials’, thus making my bag lighter still. 4. Is such a cute bag!
Embossed, at the top where the stitching of the shoulder straps meet the bag, is ‘Good Old Days’.
So, if it reminds you of those old school bags, that my mom would have carriend when she was 10.. Its suppose to!
-Sarah, fully supporting the ‘Get your sexy back(pack)’ Movement!!!
Romantic Poem to Sequin Jacket
I will catch the sparkle in your eye
and wince with pleasure till I die
As you don these sequins, shy
the moon and stars will pause to whisper, oh my
Glamourous and fabulous
I will be yours, regardless, relentless
Be mine too
and no less
And we’ll be together..
Forever and ever!
Sophie Hulme sequin jacket with detachable zip sequin cap/face flap hoodie, $519, Pixie Market
HAHAHA. Do you like my poem? Or at least tell me if you like the jacket.
