RESORT 2012

Courtesy of Style.com

Just a few of my favorite looks (that I could personally see myself trying to recreate) from 3.1 Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, and Celine Resort 2012. I also really enjoyed Proenza Schouler, Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Suno, Jason Wu, and I'm sure there are more, but I haven't finished looking through all of the collections since I got sidetracked with other things. Now with Men's Fashion Week, I need to catch up, fast.

SOMBRE BY NATURE

A few months ago I helped style a photoshoot for my friend, Sidney Son. The photos were made available about a month ago and I managed to post about it on tumblr, but completely forgot about it here.

For this shoot, I was inspired by Japanese high fashion, mainly Comme des Garcons and Yohji Yamamoto, so I pulled a lot of black from my closet (yes, most of the clothes and shoes are mine). When I think of Japanese designers, I think of dark colors and tailored pieces and the flawless styling of fusing masculine and feminine. I wanted to portray those elements, but we were pressed with time so we couldn't fully achieve the look we wanted. But, we did the best we could.

My favorites have to be the last three looks, which I feel I have more ownership in creating them. All in all, it was a great experience and I really enjoyed it.

ANGLES

The Strokes - Undercover of Darkness

SEE YOU NEXT SEASON, NYFW

New York Fashion Week ended yesterday and I managed to go to the Patrik Ervell show, Duckie Brown after party at Avenue, and the Jeremy Scott after party at Le Bain. The latter was the highlight of the week. I ran into a lot of friends and had a great time. Hopefully next season I can manage to take part in more. Need to get my resume updated and send it out to every possible publications, firms, agencies, etc. I guess that's what I'll be doing this Spring Break.

VAMPIRE RED

For the past two weeks, I've been sporting red hair. The color is starting to fade to an orange-red now, so this weekend I'm planning to re-apply Manic Panic in Pillarbox Red to get it even redder. Since I have been growing out my hair, the bleached parts were only able to grab the color. It looks a bit strange, but I'm not planning to bleach my hair any time soon so I have to live with the two-toned look, and I'm okay with that.

Although, my only complaint about Manic Panic hair dye is that the color rubs on a lot of my clothes during the first few days, the color fades every few weeks, and when washing my hair the dye stains my bathtub. I know I can avoid all of these issues by using a permanent red hair dye, but according to a hairstylist friend of mine, it's not a good idea to go that route. Regardless, I just wanted to have a little fun with my hair since I'll most likely be back to black in a few months.