Month: March 2016

Love: My Favourite Cuts ✂️ from #NYFW Fall RTW 2016 part 3

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Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 of my favourite #NYFW cuts. To really get the benefit of the garments and the images, it’s best to refer to the actual image file and zoom in. Victoria Beckham Checks are here to stay in Fall for VB (they were present in her last collection too). Speaking of Fall, which is next season, I realised that I kept saying this season in my last two posts although with the See-Now-Buy-Now proposal, who knows, maybe it will become a phrase more relevant than ever. Victoria Beckham has been rising in my good books for the last few years and it’s easy to see why. In short, she is the epitome of the 21st Century American Dream: a mother, a wife, a family woman, charity supporter and a business woman – what else is this woman capable of? A lot I tell you, a lot. For one thing, she is still keeping it real after years of designing, offering easy-to-wear solutions. This time, a softer approach was entailed into the tailoring and strapless bodices. Such bodices …

Love: My Favourite Cuts ✂️ from #NYFW Fall RTW 2016 part 2

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My #NYFW highlights continues. Have you checked out part 1 yet? Also, look out for part 3, coming soon. What have been your Fashion Week highlights? Look out for #LFW, #MFW and #PFW highlights which will follow these coming few weeks! Vera Wang Put monochrome and fencing together, and you have a femme fatale ready to take on the world. The blackest blacks, khaki greens, warm-tone browns. It was a new take on ‘restriction’ I felt – a subject which is no stranger to fashion theme and inspiration. I was most intrigued by the armour-over-shirting vs a high slit maxi-skirt, and the beautiful parallel stitching on the jackets. Honestly, I wasn’t so fussed on the last 10 or so looks of the collection (there were 40 in total). A bit of a shame, because it was going somewhere but didn’t quite grasp a final destination (if anything, it lost the ‘femme fatale’ vibe). I would have loved to have seen more tailoring with another element – a ‘wow’ factor but this will suffice. Thom Browne Admittedly, …

Love: My Favourite Cuts ✂️ from #NYFW Fall RTW 2016 part 1

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Fashion Week started over a month ago in New York, so I am most definitely late in making this post, but it is not one to be missed. As someone who avidly likes to collect images on Pinterest, particularly those of fashion detail and cut, it is almost compulsory that I share some of these with you. That is after all, my greatest joy in blogging – sharing. My #NYFW highlights will be divided – this is part 1.  Calvin Klein In hindsight, this is quite an unusual choice for me but for the same reason that it’s being written about. One of the most inspirational aspects of following a Fashion designer is seeing the journey they embark on, season to season and how they grow/develop. By definition, I am not a minimalist but it may be the type of woman I want to become for sure. ❤️ Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa’s new idea of minimalism is utter genius. Making the most of the least. Turning a new leaf for minimalism, he utilised contrast stitching as …

Talk: When should one launch a fashion label?

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Article/Source of Discussion: Why you shouldn’t launch a label straight out of school – BoF If there is one fashion article that I have been waiting to read, then this may well be it. Fashion can be taken as a very vain subject and understandably so, even from the professionals themselves. Though I am not necessarily talking about the same vainness between the average person and the Fashion Professional when regarding the subject. By its very definition, it concerns the overly fuss and high opinion of one’s appearance (although everyone would know how subjective that is). Immediately, fashion becomes vain, but only to the point that one allows it to be; failing to meet clothing with an intelligence, a core meaning that justifies the whole fashion label, its heart and how it runs. For once, the truth is spilt out that I think everyone knew but didn’t sought out to talk about, because fashion is vain. The media, the fans, the consumers will speak of the latest looks but not necessarily of how the business runs (maybe with …

Talk: Business Culture @ Tadashi Shoji

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Article/Source of Discussion: Teamwork and Transparency at Tadashi Shoji – BoF I am always interested in the business dynamics and culture behind a creative/design brand because more often than not, this can be an area overlooked. Especially at an age now where diversity is still a problem, one wonders if we should also flip the other side of the coin and look at things differently – the core of the brand: employees. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised to find this quite recent interview featuring Tadashi Shoji that I feel all Fashion Professionals (including students) should take a look at. The following may or may not surprise you but Tadashi’s business model is very Japanese despite being based in LA – and I like that. A lot. The company is very less corporate, and more free or transparent as the article suggests with Tadashi being at the very core…literally. Though I am sure this business culture is not new, it is definitely refreshing to read about it again since the age of 16/17 when I studied Business for …