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This is a post for ALL to participate, in hopes to get to know the readers and for the readers to know me. So pick your favorite from each of the pairs and post your responses with a brief explanation! My answers are below.
#1 Vivienne Westwood (on Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City) VS. Oscar De La Renta (on Jenna Bush at her wedding)
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Everyone has their soft spot when it comes to indulgent splurges. For some, it is shoes. For others, it may be designer jeans. Maybe it is purses. Or maybe it is electronic gadgets. Whatever our shopping soft spots may be, we have one too many yet we love, love, and love each and every one.
I love dresses. All kinds of dresses - short, long, mod, asy...
Asian Americans are often a forgetten ethnicity, particularly in the fashion world. We can find Asian roots in almost all aspects of American society - bringing changes to runway trends, traditional cuisine, corporate culture, and even social structure. Yet the only Asian woman role models I find in today's media are the Lucy Lius and Trisha Takanawas - in other words very limited and stereotypical.
I love fashion. I also love art. Combining the two is simply indescribable visual ecstasy. The influences of art on fashion, and fashion on art. Art movements dating back to the Renaissance that are assimmilated into fashion. For an in-depth read, check out Art and Fashion by Dr. Alice Mackrell. For now, images will speak louder than words.
I am not much of a beauty queen. I prefer minimal, sheer make-up with the occasional dramatic liner. But there are two products I live by and worship religiously:
1) Tinted Moistrizers by Laura Mercier or Clinique
Being bronzed or sunburned may be the trend these days, but I will get the last laugh in 10 years when I still look like I'm in my 20s and the beach babes of today will look middle-aged. (According to Allure, Reese Witherspoon swore by sunscre...
Paris. Milan. London. New York - acclaimed fashion capitals of the world and breeding grounds for revolutionary designs, cuts and patterns. California, on the otherhand, is branded and unfashionably cursed with the following of Abercrombie and Hollister. Yet over the past decade, Los Angeles has managed to make a name for itself, springing designers like Trina Turk and Rami Kashou - something that cannot be said about my San Francisco.
