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18 May 2009
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Jump, Jump, Jumpsuits Fever!

Jumpsuits - the innovation sprung up from boring overalls, are hot in season again. I remember having this crazy thought of wearing a silky three quarts jumpsuit to my JC prom, which was just a short 2 years ago, and now its back in stores! I did try searching for the ONE but to no avail.

Sidetrack a little, I bought a drastic jaw-dropping pants that are somewhat similar (according to Erik) to the following photos because I am in need of corporate looking pants and decided that monotonous pants are boring, hence the surprising decision.

Can I hear some oooohs?

Back to my jumpsuits fever, according to a book recount, it became the most popular garment on the US fashion scene in 1975, with orders going beyond 10,000 per year! It was first created by the famous Yves Saint Laurent in 1974, winning the hearts of models and bringing them worldwide. So I really want them right now. Nothing off the shelves can fit perfectly since I am quite short compared to models. ZAHHH!

Zara has it in dark purple and black but the material is...(I don't really know the technical word for it.) soft yet a little rough, a little disappointing especially the sizes! Sigh!

I love the softness of the silk material Chloe used, its probably like what I have seen from Wardrobe 2 years ago.

New adoration for Diane von Furstenburg. Both pieces are absolutely stunning!

Casual grange look by Marc Jacobs

To sum it up, I was just searching back at Wardrobe to see if they do sell jumpsuits and yeah! It looks pretty good and I might just go down to get it after my next pay! I also had the urge to get new gladiator heels as well. Zara has this gorgeous gladiator heels going for $159, a little pricey but ugh, I cannot resist the temptation! The heels are high too and its fat and chunky, just so perfect for me.


Jumpsuits from left: fcuk, Wardrobe £50.00, Wardrobe £85.00
Heels from left: Vince Camuto Angie Peep Toe USD140, Miz Mooz USD69.90, L.A.M.B Tizzy Zipped USD345.

Strippy House of Holland

Pardon me for the month's absence, I do hope that I AM BACK for real now. I have been really busy with work that I was finding it tough to juggle between two blogs plus more (other stuff). Guess what I found in the recent London Fashion Week?!

House of Holland.
Henry Holland did a fantastic job on the color matches, bringing up the vibrancy in the runway. It is really graphically engaging as each model sashayed in with different colors off their clothes.

Green, purple, pink, black, what are we short of now?

Turquoise!

I actually had the turquoise to be put together because I love the bold cuts that the designer Henry used. The different color tones used in a suit itself and white stripes were the tiny details that created the boxy image on the models.

Whats one thing you will think about with strips? For me, its zebra crossing. So when I first saw the collection, I was hoping not to see likewise, and House of Holland did not disappoint. The closest you see for zebra crossings is the Asian model with the woolen-stripped jacket but hey, the match up was awesome. Don't you just wish you can snug in comfortably in that woolly jacket?

Look out for the heels! The gladiator-yet-more-sophisticated shoes were one of the things that caught my attention. How is it? or does it feel torturous to wear heels? Is this going to be another Prada model falling contest?


Taken off Style, not again?!?!

Shape Me Up, Dior Baby!

Shoot me now, somebody! Pardon me for not updating this blog for the longest time ever, but I have been working on my company's blog at KooBits, go check it out and spread the word to your younger cousins, or if you still consider yourself as a teenager, I'm not boasting over here, but I really love the working environment and interactivity of the software itself.

Interactive Digital Media is our future!
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Free advertorial for my company, with no incentives but personal adoration for it! Woohoo! By the way, look at all the cute characters around the name, guess which one is me? Oh well sadly, I'm only a month old in the company, so the logo does not include me. *cries* However, due to my crazy and talkative nature yet disturbingly poisonous nature, I'm crowned the bumble bee!


Moving on, I'm more EXCITED to blog about my current eyecandy, errr eyecandies I mean! I'm so EXCITED to share since the runway took place but sigh, though my heart is willing but my flesh is weak! Ok! Enough of crap!

Christian Dior Spring 2009 Couture runway captured my heart right from the first dress to the last seam in the last dress! John Galliano, the chief designer for the runway, experimented with big shapes on each dresses. I don't know if anyone has done this before but the folds in the hemlines were really wired beautifully and it gives the dresses a whole new look and at the same time preserved the look from the seventeenth century. Going back to the post on my love for Victorian clothing, this just adds a tinge of contemporary ideas around the gowns. I mean what can I say, I definitely want to try on every single piece in the collection. I am doubly, triply and infinitely amazed. Slap me, somebody! I want to cuddle the gowns in my arms now!





Dior also used primary bright colors for the carefree spring & summer season that many other designers have committed into trend. However, the colors were a few hues duller to translate modernness into classic comtemporariness. How about the frequent use of hats in this collection, have you noticed? I've always love these fancy hats because they bring out a woman's mysteriousness and magnificence. Zara is also selling plain hats with waves on the peak and if I have the money, I would definitely want to have it!

Next, these pictures (below) could be my wedding gowns, day and evening! I love the designs on the dresses, remember how much I used to love drawing roses and veins...


This is a very creative work on having the designs underneath and frills at the frontal look. Overwhelming amount of details but does not confuse the designs and destroy the exquisite look. How can I not be amazed?

This will definitely be the evening dress. I don't need to explain myself right? Tell the man to earn enough money now!



According to Soo-mi (my mommy), this is a cross mixed of the Japanese kimono style and the Western fifties culture. This just reminds me of Arts examination in secondary schools because we have to create several developments from an original plain picture. A change in flowers could change the entire style. Again, excellent job!

The last definitive dress of the year's S/S collection. Extraordinary collection!

Shanghainese Girl

I'm falling in love with cheongsam/qi pao recently, not after all those Huang Fei Hong's movies, not after my Shanghai trip, but just right after the first day of Chinese New Year. Here's why (let me just show off a little heh.)...

Do I look like Shi San Yi from Huang Fei Hong? LOL.

Shanghainese girl in the 80s

Family photo without Daddy...how could we leave him out?!

Cheongsams are our Chinese traditional costume and they are originally designed to be loosely fitting like those white ghost costume you will wear for Halloween. As we move on to an open-minded Western culture, the extra frills around to hide layers of fats are removed and tighten up to show off a slender and curvaceous body, eh you know, the typical stereotype of sexy. I don't really have the time to research on qi paos but the ones that left a deep impression in me recently comes from the Beijing Olympics hostess.


Did you know these hostesses went through really tough rounds to get through to the job? The judges were so fussy and particular of the entire image that nobody should have scars or pimples on their skin, reminding me of the surviving rounds to be a Singapore air stewardess. The selected ones then have to proceed for intensive trainings to buckle up on their basic Olympics knowledge, walking to dancing lessons and I believe, some English courses as well. The over 1.3 billion population really does produced hundreds of beauty, so fair and flawless.

Maybe not everyone of us will learn to appreciate oriental beauty but don't you agree these girls are top-notched? Not forgetting the mesmerizing actress, Zhang Ziyi.


The cheongsam made her look sophisticated and displayed a semi-voluptuous body. I think compared to all other gowns that designers have always created, designing cheongsams is still the best way to create and combine innocence, purity and beauty into one full piece. My own cheongsam is specially handmade by a shifu in Shanghai, which is one important part to a cheongsam - everything has to fit perfectly from the neckline, shoulders, chest, waist, bust and slit lengths. The ultimate creation, I feel, is nothing more than the hand sewn designs on the qi pao itself like the ones Zhang Ziyi had on. As for mine, the cloth is already present for me to choose and I picked this because it has cute little dragons on me, roar! Lujiabang road, Shanghai, if I am not wrong. Start searching for your own shifu today. It's good to return to the past occasionally and reminisce the ol'days.

Call me Wang Lao Shi.

Wearing both slippers and shoes together

Here's an interesting snippet I have found!


Can you see what's so interesting about the above picture? On a bright sunny day while strolling in Orchard Road in your coolest outfit and hightop shoes, your girlfriend decides to go to the beach for a relaxing suntanning session. You surprise her by unzipping every layer of your hightop to reveal your barefeet covered by two straps - the miracle slippers.

Heh heh. These amazing shoes was first released at the "Bread & Butter" fashion trade show. A change in style in an instant. The designs weren't bad at all, because zippers just add metallic freshness to the look. Unless everyone gets a pair of these, these are really perfect show off product. Whatcha think?

News taken off Reuters.

Obama-craze.

Barack Obama has covered more than 3/4 of the news coverage in CNN.com that it is hard to shake off him, not that I want to but I guess I am envious that America has an enthusiastic political scene and uninhibited citizens. All Singaporeans would definitely understand what I mean, we are overly obedient little puppies that listen to their owners. Whatever the nation carries out will reflect the citizens' actions, and educators are wondering why local students are not participative enough and so they started using points to push students to be exercise their mouth. And what was the outcome? A bunch of artificial porcelains who have master the art of flattery. Oops.

Anyways, back to my cool President...err his wife is actually my focus for today. I think she looks awesome in her one-shoulder dress, a really good role model for the younger generation. Smart, sophisticated and trendy, wow! This is the way to lead the new generation! To all other Presidents' wives and pastors' wives, stop wearing the normal female suits that the Queen always wear, at least her hats make her look fashionable and cute, otherwise the suits are just plain boring, passe!



Jason Wu, Taiwanese fashion designer, has done all Asians proud, just when I started praising Asian designers in my previous blog...yay! He got worldwide fame in just one night, one event, one dance performance, really, I should start to design something for the couple's step down day then in 8 years' time. Well, do you know that he started out designing for dolls?


Yep, thats one of them. You can check them out here at Fashion Royalty, I love Barbie dolls, but they're not! His collections are sooooo beautiful, and having checked his runway collection for S/S 09, I realized the models do reflect the dollish look as well.

A flare A-line skirt and contrasted with the shirt and cardigan makes a woman's work life more colorful. The way Jason has played with colors throughout this collection was very bold of him yet they surprisingly turned out to be very pleasant and jovial to the eye. Evening gowns summarized his use of colors in each individual pieces, spring is really here again, so colorful and free-spirited and "There she goes...lalalala" will we hum...



That's Jason Wu, for you folks. Cute, isn't he? Heh.

EcoChic Fashion; Luxury with Heart

EcoChic Fashion - Living Luxury with a Heart

I am totally loving this tagline!!! If Ben&Jerry's are going greener, fashion definitely has to follow suit. Imagine our everyday wear is green, 2 pairs of clothing multiplied by 6 billion people, we can save....er check with your best Earth mathematician for that answer!

My favorite S/S 09 designer, Diane von Furstenberg, was involved in designing these unique eco-couture clothes together with other international and local (Hongkong, China) designers too! Well, I don't have any pictures of individual pictures to show but here's the video to summarize the event.

Not bad huh?!?!?! It would be really inspiring and rewarding if new designers are brought into the eco-line to design clothes for a greater cause. But other than the cause, I want to see more breakthrough in clothes designing because I feel that right now the designs are not over the edge of awesome yet. I was wow-ed mainly because of the funny hairdo each model had, I've seen a better footage on the news on TV last week during its runway launch.

However, more than that, it was the creativity of the Asians that blossomed throughout this entire event. The runway just showed how much potential Asians have in the area of designing and its not just in the blood of the blonds. Hehe.

If you can, support their designs at Green2Greener!

50 Years of Barbie Dolls

No matter how rough and boyish I was in the past, just throw me any doll, I would immediately be enthralled by its beauty and turn oblivious to my surroundings. Polly Pockets and Barbie dolls especially, I never fail to beg Soo-Mi to buy me either of them, even if its just accessories like clothes, every Sunday in Tampines Mall after swimming lessons.

Today, Barbie is celebrating its 50th year anniversary gloriously with spectacular success that draws the attention of dolls collectors as well. The most expensive Barbie doll in the world, was made by De Beers ten years ago, could fetched to a hefty sum of USD 85,000! I idolize how slim and beautiful Barbie is and love to buy those tiny clothes to help them change, that was probably when I really got in touch with fashion and fell in love with it.


To the gorgeous doll in the world, Barbie, Happy Birthday! You're an inspiration to me always!

Red and Eva

I was just watching the Red Carpet Runway for Golden Globe Awards 2009 and...I found myself gushing at sexy Leonardo DiCaprio, totally melting under the power of his shiny blue eyes. Yes, he has aged but still, his charms never fade away like Tom Cruise's, who was equally attractive. When he was being interviewed, Tom Cruise was really friendly with the poor reporter who has to come out with millions of new questions to ask the celebrities. The worst thing is having to remember what each of them has been nominated for or what projects were they involved in. Tough job, being a red carpet's live reporter but they did a great job and had on sophisticated dresses and hairdos as well.

Back to my lovely Leo boy... I was pretty amazed that he could slim down so quickly, maybe he did during the movie - Revolutionary Road, I don't quite remember. Anyways, Revolutionary Road was pretty intense with loads of screaming and quarreling - your typical broken domestic affairs. I love how Leo and Kate (whom won Best Actress for the movie, Congrats!) display their emotions so vividly that I'm sure, not even real life couples hold that much intensity, making you cringe and move away from the computer screen, the loud screaming.

And this is how red can inject the many Awwws, hooooot!, seeeeeexxxxy!, and the rest whose jaws have dropped to the bottom of the seabed but cannot find their voiceboxes...


Nobody can beat Eva Longoria's beauty, indeed. Red is the new black! In fact, there are very little black dresses in Golden Globe Awards this time other than the tuxedos and Kate Winslet's satin black dress from Yves Saint Laurent, full of elegance and mystery.


All photos taken from JustJared.com and Socialitelife.