Tanning.

TGIF folks!

I went in August, and here I am backtracking for a #laterpost (in following to #latergram) from last summer's trip around the EU. Remember the big mess I had in preparing for my trip? Well this was the outcome.

Tanning is the title because of the crazy heat that has targeted Europe to be a very hot ground. Not blaming, it made the beaches of Cannes look glorious with lots of ripples and sparkles from the sun. It was so beautiful and ... when you are there (don't enjoy the ladies bathing, enjoy the seaview lah) the very azure blue ocean is simply mesmerizing. (apart from that, my FB album is also called 'Greatest Tanning Trip of Le Life' and I turned 20% darker than usual for my arms).

I still hate the hot weather. Which is why 3 hats accompanied me, and two of them are showstoppers because of the size (see below).

Winter's absolutely game over in the tropics and I'm sourcing for new inspiration for the colors and layers of the summer! Within my natural instinct, I head back for my 16-day tripping under the hot sun and managed to wear all the heels I wanted without feeling that I was the tallest in class. It's EU, I feel small.

Think a truckload of lemons (shoes, accessories, pins, dresses, jackets, hats) and is skimmed through to make lemonades + honey (accessories and the extra oomph of fakq) = squeeze of the summer for the azn girl on holiday and turning 20 on the plane. I meant, on the way to the plane airport. Here's #WIW...LY.

(whatiworelastyear)

Morocco King's palace; and the tomb of one of the wives in the olden days with the very cool guard with his sniper. 

Wearing flower visor, Lalalove London tee, striped pants and red wedges from Platinum BKK

At Alhambra, literally translated as the Red Castle in Spain.

Wearing the eye-stopping blue hat (a tourist actually had asked me to take a picture of me and the hat, it was that famous among the group AND people looking), Batik Keris red dress, Bata sandals

(PS. the day I bought my beautiful kawaii Bimba self birthday present)

Small town Mijas, I left my heart with you!

Wearing a smaller version of the hat, Oink throw on, halter dress and Bata sandals.

Top of Lisbon, hola hola!

Wearing Cotton On shades, batik PJs (yep, doesn't it look swell, and actual PJ), DIY vest, Payless wedges.

 

Lisbon, the next day, in front of the famous patisserie that made the first egg tarts and made Portugal famous. 
Pirates Ahoy!

Wearing an electric blue hat, DIY drape stripe dress. (See the dress' transform)

 Self birthday present of Bimba y Lola necklace I've been hunting; siesta time in Toledo. 

Wearing a Uniqlo striped dress.

 "Merci, merci beaucoup, Cannes! Muah"

Red carpet moment in the summer.

Wearing the just-got-in-this-trip Zara vest for $10, vintage dress, just-got-in-this-trip Portugal sandals.

"Madrid and the walking stabbil0 alien" (if there was a newspaper headline)

Wearing the pixelated Sunnies, neon green top and skirt.

Back to the Gaudi Cathedral from 1999 and of course, still not done but it is totally beautiful. In the centre between those shopping streets of Barca.

Wearing Purple version of the hat, Tosavica pink top, ASOS blue dress, just-got-in-this-trip Zara wedges for $10!

Milan's centerpoint in front of Duomo, the sun's being really nice.

Wearing Oink rose throw, black sleeveless, Zara pants, Payless wedges.

Exposé.

My last summer in Singapore (June 2012, ha) was filled with work, and great fun! What's more than to kill time to dress models (friends) who has the height, waist, and edge of ‘tude I always possess except the size of the clothes.

For a long-time acquaintance and favorite shopping place who has a magazine, ActuallyMAG launches a styling competition called Project X (Project Expose for long).

I didn’t win, but it was great fun to have at least a permanent set of team to do the photoshoot out and indoors! Here are picks of my favorites.

 Jerim, Squashed in Squash

in my H&M lime hoodie

Farid, Time of the Golden

in UNBOUNDED AWE and KIROICxJUUNJ sneaks

 Anita, Monotone Rust

in my H&M Fashion A Aids beach crochet and 20:TWOTHREE dress

Amanda (of Kindergarchy) & Farid, Landing Mission

Her in Saturday, Him in General Idea

Manda again, Royal On The Road

in L'ILE AUX ASHBY

Alex, Coachella Belle

in my ASOS blue dress and Linda Farrows from Front Row

Alex, Primary Framed

in my Uniqlo tee and Daniel Palilo skirt

Check out the rest of my styling editions, and see other 5-6 stylists in the entire website!

Pierce.

I've been meaning to post it since September last year after I arrived from my two-week Eurotrippin' and not until today I had the sudden motivation to revive my blog again - I'm getting some creative juices!

There was this simple dress I got for roughly S$8 in BKK and I wanted to make things rather different. My style, Miss Foo will say when she sees this. Everyone knows I like drape drape, so here's just one way to do things your own way and be different, and all you need is:

the basic dress with only 1 pin

 

• 1 Long dress, preferably with a pattern so draped and scrunch looks visible compared to solid black
• 10-15 pins, big ones like those nappy for babies (since I used them for this) and normal ones, big ones better to keep the weight.

It's not so easy, I had to pin and pierce it while I wear it because laying them on the bed and scrunching it in will not look the same. I tried it on and off, and best way is to keep it ON.
Sorry for the bad image, it was really late at night and I was rushing off or I'll look horrendous on Day 5.

 This was scrunched and held perfectly with trial and error. Make sure your pins really are strong and won't fall off halfway. My dress material was polyester cotton jersey and polyester made it ultra heavy. So those babies huge ones actually did help through the inside.

TA - DA, you now look different.

See the rest of my trip's looks of 10 days worth!

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B2B2 is really all about the black and the white and some hues in between.
It would have had a better title named 'Armour' but because of the former post I did in writing in my two days in Jakarta, I have to be consistent.

I thought the top was rather funny and it is a literal image of yellow flash - if it wasn't for my bag. So the second most daring outfit, it seems, in a blink of an eye is plain smart and normal casual. The thing is, everyone doesn't stare on the dress with a simple knot or my double-armour in my bangles (gotten for $6 each in a Diva sale, fantastic) or whenever I wore my 5-dpi look-a-like shades. I had bruises on my shin and my arms that the stockings and bangles serve as a cover.

It was my shin and my shoes that made people gawk.

"That girl must be out of her mind to tattoo her entire shin like that, goodness" is what they must have thought. "With that shoes as well - egad, what kind of trashing fashion is this?"
If you were to enter Plaza Indonesia, the Paragon of Singapore, the Saks Fifth of NY, the Harrods of London, then yeah, you'll get stared at until you feel your legs burn by their eye-starring lasers and whispers.


The secret answer is about the stockings, which I utterly adore because of its 110% foolproof of letting everyone know that I did went to a tattoo parlour and got a one-for-one deal: pay the dragon, get the girl riding on it free tattoo picture are from Carrie Chan. Met her over at Blueprint and ordered few sets for myself so prepare for it, dear fashionable Indonesians, I'm wearing them more and get over it - you'll want them too.

Into my opinion about the current market of Indonesia's retail: Everything in Indonesia is now bloody exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ship me to Bangkok this instant. Get designer stuff (local) for reasonable prices and for them to sustain. Only Danjyo maybe fits my pocket most but the rest are rather out-of-your-space. But yeah, that was literally it, there was nothing else that is an entire avenue for local/multi-lable shops and other hip places because it's all been foreign-absolutism in the market (er like Singapore of course, but they have more selections on the indie side) where these are very commercialized brands.

Besides spotting new multi-label stores that popped up around Bandung which I have not CHECKED IT OUT YET, anyone else got ideas where else I should go and have a look for local labels, multi-label stores besides Jade, Fjlo, Goods Dept.?  Fire away please!

wearing ADHOC dress-shirt, Diva gold bangles, RI.By.Carrie tattoo stockings, Feiyue sneakers.

ready stance!

PS. Olympics shoutout !!! SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS TO TRIATNO, SILVER MEDAL for Weightlifting FOR OUR COUNTRY! HE'S IS VERY ADORABLE IN ANSWERING IN ENGLISH FOR THE HOST TO HAVE CONGRATULATED HIM. Achievement indeed.






AND for Rachmawati in her Archery onto the next round... SPANKING AWESOME!

Just received: visit if you can, I wish I was there to see these 3D artworks myself, more less commercial than LV's Kusama (of course I still love her, LV or not, way back then), much probable in concept.

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wearing The Balletcats population sweater, green skirt from an FO, Feiyue MFW11 sneakers. Yellow bag from Bangkok, Bathing Ape transparent blue bag, and my humble Benetton cyan traveller.

I was in Jakarta for two days last week, for the first time ever (because should you have seen the timeline back in 2009 that I moved out to the outskirts of Bandung, Indonesia) and boy, how the traffic has gotten worse. And light if it was the opening hour for Muslims in this Ramadhan season.

Since I got no roof back in the capital city, I stayed over Ibis with the reason being of having meetings and meetings in PP and PI (Pacific Plaza and Plaza Indonesia).

One was for the reason of meeting, finally, an internet friend, a proper face-to-face meeting after about 2 years 'knowing' and the idea behind the meeting was because of our current positions today. Force the two heads and we merge one amazing power, and hopefully soon the product will be out in November. SO CROSS FINGERS!!!!!!!! News out in a bit where I will need kind help from creatives for this. ;)

Meeting at PP Liberica was rather off-costumed because I was feeling (again) pastel-y with neon-y colours. I finally had the urge to wear The Balletcats sweater for the first time ever, in public, after about . . . a year owning it? I know, I know. And it's because I just got this zesty lime green skirt I've always dreamt off in having the colour and it's awfully perfect with the grey. Not speaking about the shoes, it definitely turned heads around - no, I got it for free, I didn't buy two pairs and put one on each. Blimey, I haven't got all the cash in the world. If I have to, I'd buy a pair of whites, and pylox the other in black.

Colour-matching.

This was rather a mere subtle outfit in all the colours and my new wallet (Hello there two wabbits... or kangaroos... or worse what my mum said, it's a freaking rat. Now that entirely spoilt all the cute charms in it) and the transparent Bape bag which is ever-so-helpful with all the guards scanning all our bags. Now this is a statement without having to pull everything out.

That's for day one, practically arrived, conquered the usual Korean facial spa I went to, and then scurrying away to the other side of the city for the meeting that went absolutely ace.Then I went over to the all-new Goods Dept. which literally just opened last Friday and well, I checked it out for a while. I see Satchels everywhere in every colour!

Until tomorrow for outfit post day two... The more head-churning version.

PS. I have now wireless installed in my humble abode! Talk about motivation of doing more of this. I've been abandoning my own virtual thoughts a lot. Heh heh heh.

PPS. Back to my Olympics Gymnastic / Archery finals watching. However, I can rest assure you I am halfway over from this oogling session. Go Ben!

PPPS. Anyone here believes in Sherlock??????????????????????????

jiggy celebratory dance!

Confab.

from AFF2012 Facebook, Nico showing a Mugler piece, for the show tomorrow.

 Nicola: "I'm so nervous right now"

Colin: "He's talking rubbish,"

Nicola: (laughs) "It's my first time doing this sort of thing"

Confabulation of the day.
 

What a fab, fab, fab afternoon for a gab with fashion's grandfather of journalism from England (may I say, pardon) and with a surprising childlike personality, always happy, always optimistic, and always in his own world and bubble everyone is invited to, Nicola Formichetti.

Before jumping onto his hilarious, kischy antics of what makes Nicola just Nicola during the 45 minute talk, I'll share in a snap of my view; I didn't know he would speak, that was a plus point to have entered the AFX ring, and didn't expect how he, being 34, has his hands entirely all in all fashion industry aspects, and still juggling for more, and in the end, I felt that he, made the Lady Gaga 'concept' - if it wasn't for him to take interest in her, she would only be a mere blonde American pop and dance singer, and not avant garde Barbiexperimental doll to surf styles from Sun to the Milky Way. Believe that he picked her up after 'Just Dance', or at least I think it was, because she was still just a blonde, and actually pretty, she then turned into WORLD MEGASUPERSTAR because of what fashion and artistry did to her thanks to Nicopanda.

As much time has to keep on ticking and le grandfather has slipped off VOGUE HOMME NIPPON out of his list to confab more about this area of Nicola's work, perhaps one day if I could see it in person how a Vogue Homme Nippon comes around although it was something I look foward to most. (You know me. The otaku.)


"I'm 34, fakq it. I look young because I'm half-Asian" (cheers and claps erupted in the entire conference room)

Casually, he started pulling off his blazer, revealing his bare developing muscular arms and very dark tan. "It's hot... do you like my Bali tan?" (which I then assume that he hung out with J's friend A and KTZ boys if they're in Bali)



Onwards to the full interview (rather a bit soft voice, sorry, use headphones and sudden gushing of people) to be listened below:

This is the love In 10 words or less...

Colin McDowell Full conversation w Asian Panda @formichetti #fashion #AFS2012 fullstop

Illusion.

Yeah, it's only an illusion.

This is a very late back-dated post where in the end it was not publicize anywhere and I may use my review, yeaps! And this is a very, very late post. I'm not born to be a blogger, I'm born to publish my Diary of a Wimpy Blogger on notepads photocopied. Heh heh heh.

Invited for the opening night of 'The Illusionists' Show at the Marina Bay Sands made me anxious while eyes, transfixed, to the stage and the player do acts which I've never experience live before - it was my first.

“We are not to believe our eyes because tonight, your eyes will not lie of what it sees. It’s up to you to believe what is reality and what is an illusion.” –The Grand Illusionist, Brett Daniels

From The Magic Circle and Hollywood’s Magic Castle to the multi-million dollar Harry Potter franchise, the world of illusion and intrigue has always fascinated people. This production will present a rare opportunity for audiences of all ages to see the grand masters of illusion at work in

one spell-binding production.

Promised for a bewitching night one Friday, that particular Friday, 17 February 2012 was the opening night of The Illusionists, a new stage performing from that Friday until the 4^th of March 2012. Staged at again, The Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands that was transformed into a magician's playground for a family-friendly show which featured six of hte world's most respected performers in the field. 

Looking back to our childhood, we have possibly been transfixed on magic shows on TV since we were young. Our faces would end in a huge ‘O’ and our minds travel to do the logic of “how can THAT possibly happen?”

As apt as their tagline, “Witness the Impossible”, the show which was about 3 hours kept me on the edge of the seat – particularly as I was seated at the middle section, 5 rows away from the stage. This is as close as I get to see live magic, for the first time in my life, and the thrill being on that audience chair is a far cry than your sofa in your living room. The stupefying acts from these Illusionists in which they were handpicked to present these along with 20 plus assistants and dancers, the night builded up in a slow climax.

The night first started off with classic magic tricks by ‘The Gentleman’ Phillip, which uses real simple tricks of hiding pigeons, vanishing cages, and a beautiful flower given at the end. The norm must be presented to see the basic of the simple beauty of illusion, because still, you could watch this for a million times and wonder how all can hide things ever so smoothly.

The Grand Illusionist, Brett Daniels, plays both as a intermission host and the man who leads it all. A fair share of rudimentary tricks were performed, but sadly, on this Opening Night, his grand trick of going through a fan was dismissed as there was a technical problem of “his biggest fan”.

Ones that’ll keep you light hearted to sit back and relax is when the stage is set for the talkative The Mentalist, Philip Escoffey. Making answers before a person does will keep you spin your brain in bewilderment. His entertaining acts were possibly made by his chosen guests from the audience, and if you get chosen, expect a puzzled look on your face thereafter as he reveals your answer together with you without you showing.

The climax heightens as the air is tight when The Escapologist (Andrew Baso), an Italian magician was to perform Houdini’s last act, “Water Torture Cell”, right in front of your stage, equipped with Singapore Police Certified handcuffs. You must’ve seen it before with other magicians doing it, such as Dan Sperry aka. The Anti-Conjuror’s Russian Roulette, but anxiety awakens when they both started to play their dangerous acts. Even though it was a mere performance, my heart was light as on the top of a roller coaster.

The Trixkster (Michael Halvarson), The Manipulator (James Dimmare), The Anti-Conjuror(Dan Sperry) and The Grand Illusionist (Brett Daniels) will leave you mind boggled and spellbounded. I found myself constantly asking “how did he do that?” and probably a little too much time wondering what went behind creating those elaborate illusions.

You won’t have to fly all the way to Sydney spending long hours on board – the show was originally developed for the Sydney Opera House in Australia, to see with your own for these 6 magicians to change your notion of what a magic showis because our three-flat tier Marina Bay Sands will always bring you the best of world's shows down to Singapore!


Watch out for SOAP, Annie's (!!!), and A Chorus Line as this year's line-up!


The night was out and about with Mona from Hey Diaspora!

Top by Manythings BKK, Skirt by MU, bracelets varies from Turkey.

Lion Clutch bag by Mango.

AND YEAH, THE THING BEING ABLE TO BLOG AGAIN IS BECAUSE I'M OFFICIALLY OUT OF SCHOOL WITHOUT CLASSES!

I still have school to prep the exhibition up but other than that, I AM OUT.

See you guys more often^^!

Lane.

This is a story about a foreigner arriving in a tropical country.

She is clueless about where she is.

She came with pure boldness.

She is dressed in her skin.

*

She starts to melt off her layers, 

revealing more rainbows with every peel of the petalAdapting to the surroundingComing to her new home with extreme weather and the universe on her feet.Alpha LaneStyling : Elizabeth Raisa / RICE
Hair and Make-up : Shirley Damian
Model : Laís Santos from Upfront Models
Digital Imaging : Nrfjr Tetuko
Special thanks to Actually Shop, Ewan Shah, Liyana Meer, and Miloud Mil

Wardrobe from Abirato, Batik Keris, BOB, Daniel Palillo, Happy Socks, Jeffrey Campbell, Jump from Paper, KTZ, Lanvin x H&M, L'ile Aux Ashby, Mae Pang, Me & Thee, MU, River Island, Underground Creepers, Yazbukey


This fun editorial spread done for the sake of FUN as the duo-sister photographer sally/emily was in Lion town, and they asked me to style. Nothing to loose as the brief was to just take shots at Haji Lane, my real colors came out to dress our pretty 17YO model, Lais, into the rainbow girl I have always wished to be.
"...being ahead of the curve is big-time."
Concept of the styling, the angle plan of the photography and all that details, can be read in our interview with ActuallyMAG! Click click!

After a long wait, ActuallyMAG's editor Liyana finally releases our secrets of our processes (right) for a 3-month delay. That's why I've just published this post, where it has been sitting in the Drafts for so long. . .
Well, that was me and the model going crazy at 11AM.Expect more color burst fun and the spread on the jump!

Mmmm.

The loot of M to the M.

Like previously introduced,  Singapore last week was bombarded with two events: one for the mass which caused a stir to have an overnight Q starting at 12:45PM by the OSN boys, and the rather more quiet one for the limited edition (very, very limited) pieces of TOPSHOP x Mary Katrantzou. Because a lot of damage was done during Marni at H&M, as it was for the mass and it was earlier (8 March), Mary came after (10 March) and I bet most have no more budget for the luxe cut of Topshop's unbelievable price.

At least,

Bought the Marni's, seen my Mary.

Was it a coincidence that both collaborators started with M?

Aaaaaanyway, went down to H&M thereafter the TOPSHOP morning proper frenzy and surprised to find a lot of Marni stuff left. But I understand why these are still persistent to hang in these cute racks! (focal point: the racks and the label, not the clothes. Heh heh)

don't worry, this will stay. take your time this week to purchase!

enclosing my loot from Marni:

 the necklace, the earrings, damage S$138.90
I believe in the States or so it's only $50?

Not wasting anymore time. TOPSHOP x NEWGEN x MARY KATRANTZOU.