Dreamy as Puberty

yummy hats and fascinators on women at the recent Royal Ascot 09.

this black crochet lace hat won at the inaugural ‘Who Wants To Be A Millin-aire.’ Roman is a professional milliner from London.

there’s just nothing you cannot put on a hat

I’d love to do something like this, Karl Lagerfeld designed ballet costumes for the English National Ballet’s tribute season to the legendary French ballet company the Ballets Russes. (L-R: Dying Swan costume, ballet dancer Elena in Chanel haute couture seen in Harper’s Bazaar June issue.)

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pretty although the feathers around the neck is a bit awkward and i don’t LOVE how the bodice makes her look thick and ungraceful.

The Guardian’s Judith Mackrell called the tutu “the one fake note” of the opening night. It was, she said, “conceived with cavalier disregard for the ballerina’s working body – the line of the neck broken by an egregious, fluffy ruff, the waistline broken by a too-high skirt.

I agree….

local divers dressed as mermaids in a tank at the Manila Ocean Park

The first perfume by Van Cleef & Arpels, Feerie. How dreamy is this bottle, with the fairy on a twig. It smells wonderful, too. If I were to be a perfume, this scent would come nearest. I heard the first whif was a bit too sweet for some, but I love it like it is, it gives way to a more woody smell after a while and the trail is just pure fantasy.. The real bottle doesn’t look as good as I expected it to be though, the metal-looking twig is just plastic. But I got to take home a tester and a discount card for it at the Fabric anniversay, and speaking of which, the entry and photos for that will come soon.. Just collecting the good pictures! =)

Never stop dreaming…

Fabric Fashion Show @ Embassy Fly

We had a show about two weeks ago. Myself, and my friends Kristine, Karl and Charmagne with the theme Emotionally Hardcore in Saving Mother Earth. We thank(?) Sir Lev for coming up with that idea. It is Emo + Eco/Global Warming fashion in one, essentially. Both inspired by some lesson topics we had discussed in class. Why emo and global warming? Emo because it is a fashion phenomenon that’s spreading so much it cannot be ignored. Since the emo culture is honestly quite a selfish way of life, it’d be interesting to relate being emo for a completely selfless reason: saving the earth. And global warming for the simple fact that it affects everyone, whether you choose to notice it or not. How we relate the two different inspirations together was up to us.

My collection is all about penguins with an emo twist. One of the effects of global warming is the melting of polar ice caps, home of the penguins. So they are affected first and worst. In the popular series Heroes’ world, it’s ‘Save the cheerleader, Save the world’ but in reality, it’s ‘Save the penguins, Save the world’.

That’s the idea. And ideas are always easier on paper. Haha..

A lot of the cautionary lessons I was told before were affirmed and there were a lot of new lessons learned. A fashion designers’ world isn’t as glamorous as it seems. It really isn’t. It involves a lot of work, you can’t do everything on your own and since it involves a lot of people, you run into characters ranging from midly annoying to frighteningly offending. It’s easy to overlook many of the little details involved along the way. And it really does pay to be nice. Nice, not gullible.

Needless to say, the whole thing was an experience that was totally different from anything I’ve ever known. The preparation was neverending, the wait was nerve racking and the actual show was intense but over in an eye blink. It was all both very real and surreal. And I’d be so lucky to keep doing this as long as I can.

More photos in a coming post. Backstage photos in my Multiply.

Special thanks to:
Imagine
Manila Bulletin
Manual
Inquirer.net
Fudge
Gadgets
Mtv
Fashion TV
Sugar Sugar
stylebible.ph

And thanks Sir Lev. =)