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Dream Boy’s Dream

There were rumours last year about Alexander Wang going to do collaboration with Nike together, which would be in fact an awesome idea since his style already marks himself as King of Casual. The news somehow fell right through and left with ‘just a rumour’ disappointment for all of us. But the dream boy has never stopped pursuing his dream. Instead of linking up with other sport giant, why don’t you launch the perfect trainer yourself??

Contrasted in perfect black and white and in his signature clever material-surface-contrast, the trainer shown below is just a perfect dream for casual lovers from boys to girls.

…and a selection of NYC kool boyz gathering together for a photoshoot here, all dressed in T by Alexander Wang line for mens. Guess if you have a dream, then just chase it hard as you can!

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Kool Kids’ Trick

NYFW has been nearly a week and close to its ending. Accessories wise the first I noticed ever was of course Alexander Wang’s ‘Gang’ (that’s what he calls his girls this season). The super pointy pump looks very striking and crying out to fetch everyone’s attention. After having a decade of semi round toes and semi pointy toes, I was not sure at the beginning how to accept it, also because they also look quite painful!

But soon later, I started to notice that there’s a whole group of designers joining the trend of nineties-ish pointy shoes! And believe or not, if you’re a kool kid in NYFW showbiz, then your models would be rocking a pair of pointy shoes.

Altuzarra’s pointy shoes are less motorcycle themed as Wang’s and a bit more of a power lady look.

Daryl K’s pointy shoe boots are more rock n roll

Duro Olowu’s metallic pointy pumps are very pretty lady tasteful!

Thakoon and Peter Som’s collections are also included with semi pointy shoes. Now I realized most of the kool kids from NYFW are definitely at top of the new trend waves…yes bring back a bit of 90s and bring back some sharpness from those olden days!

Tags: Alexander Wang, Altuzarra, Daryl K, Duro Olowu, NYFW, Peter Som, Thakoon

Such a Wang Banger – Tilda Knot Sandals

‘You don’t have much luck with the Wang, do you!’ my housemate D moaning it out for me.

He’s right.

Every season when I’m trying to make an important big purchase from Alexander Wang i.e. over £200, there would be something about to go wrong and became a whole scenario. First was last year when I purchased Mirte lace up bootie from Liberty London and they bruised my feet within 20 minutes. Then it was the black long maxi rib dress – it was such an long journey of effort to locating one in my size from Canadian website ssense.com and returned the double ordered one from Harvey Nichols.

this summer I love mixing colours on my toe nails

This year with my greatest passion on Wang’s mainly-all-white-SS11-collection, I couldn’t resist but to purchase the middle-heeled Tilda Knot Sandals from shopbop.com. (they offer DHL 3 day worldwide delivery service and with final tax and delivery fee the price tag is still smaller than any European retailers) I ordered a UK size 5 and disappointedly discovered that they’re so much bigger than I imagined. As shopbop.com doesn’t do exchange and without knowing whether the UK4 would fit my feet or not, I decided to keep the UK5 and ordered another size 4. UK4 just fitted me so perfect, however, it was also too late to return the UK5, therefore, like last year I had to put the size 5 on eBay for auction.

But I’m so over the moon despite all the effort. The first outfit I thought to channeling about was the head-to-toe white look from Alexander Wang’s SS11 collection. Sheered stripe tank vest by T by Alexander Wang / Light grey baggy linen trousers-cut-to-shorts by River Island / Tilda knot sandals by Alexander Wang

Then I surprisingly discovered that this pair of sweetheart goes with absolutely nearly any outfits. A simple T-shirt and denim shorts are instantly glamoured up with that NYC downtown casual-smart look. Sheered stripe T-shirt by American Vintage / Old pair of studded medium wash denim cut-to-shorts / Tilda knot sandals by Alexander Wang

Carrying on with the chic casual city look: Navy fine cotton pirate blouse by Gap / Silk mix stripe apron shorts by Alexander Wang / Tilda knot sandals by Alexander Wang

Apart from the cool city casual look, these sandals go perfectly with this vintage dress I found by accident in my local charity shop. The dress kind of reminds me of Christopher Kane’s SS11 neon royal collection, instead of neon lace, it has paisley print over a lime-ish background. Team up with a vintage belt to add on a little more colour. The Tilda knot sandals by Alexander Wang make the dress looking less mumsy and definitely added some edge to it.

Oh well, all those effort are definitely worth it and I want to say a big Thank You to my dear friend Jerry in NYC to help me getting the second pair.

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Feeling the Pulse

Alexander Wang’s pulse energy is not only on Fashion. I guess that we share similar music taste, I always find the music from his show are very ommfing! And it’s not only just ommfing, but he presents the newest and most updated and most up-coming artists…well … in my taste. (if you have the same one as well…) From his previous shows, I learnt the South African hip-hop group – Die Antwoord, way before the group gone mainstream everywhere. And also because the music world influence the fashion world as well (somehow in the random ‘butterfly-effect’ way), what’s the best to get cool music artists to represent your energetic diffusion line?!

Last season we saw Wang nailed hot DJ Diplo, and this season another music artist – Santigold. I’ve noticed her music way before she got big on both sides of Atlantic due to her early collaboration with a favourite DJ of mine Freq Nasty called ‘Creator’. And now I’m looking forward to her new album ‘American Dream’ coming out this year. And of course it’s no surprise to see Wang got her first on board. So…feeling the pulse, go yahhh!!

Tags: Alexander Wang, Diplo, Freq Nasty, Santigold

Alexander Wang – Autumn/Winter 2011 Campaign

Whilst on the topic of models and campaigns, one of our all-time favourite designers has casted one of our all-time favourite models for his autumn/winter 2011 campaigns. We’re of course talking about Alexander Wang’s new campaign starring none other than Raquel Zimmerman. The campaign was shot by Fabien Baron and styled by Karl Templer.

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“I love you back” 25: What Else – has to be a Wang!

Been to Selfridges London sales recently and spotted a shop assistant, whose styling tip needs to be taken note here. The high waist black trousers is of course by Alexander Wang, nicely fitted and with a tight mesh corset waistband inserted from the inside. Love the nicely layered Ts – outside layer T is actually a Selfridges uniform T.

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Favourite Resort 2012 – Alexander Wang

I’m really worrying about my wallet at the second when I saw the first image of Resort show by my favourite designer Alexander Wang. The collection got a very refreshing colour pallete – sporty, a bit vintage mood (referring to the vintage 70s sportsmen photograph Wang has been referencing from) and some futuristic technology, and of course the very important element of Wang-esque – the ‘street feel’ – sporting swim suit together with day wear is a new trend peeking out of New York street scene!

And here’re the evidence.

Wang has also announced to schedule of opening his second store, in Beijing!! I guess there’s also a possibility due to the image and quality control. Because since his name is widely spread in China, it’s very difficult for any Chinese followers to purchase his designs. Hence why there’re so many purchase agencies Chinese on-line operating purchases from individual buyers and of course there’re many fakes floating around in China and HongKong areas. Therefore,  I think that’s a very strong clever move. Instead of planting his second store in any of european cities, he is going to put his foot firmly to the root.

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Details of Alexander Wang AW2011

Luxury is when you look into something, it just becomes more and more and more interesting because there’re so many micro details. And that’s exactly what Alexander Wang is pushing his brand into for AW2011. Mixture of different materials are key…

… …needle punch is a new word I heard for this collection. It is interesting to see how it works in close-ups…

Wang has linked up with jewellry designer Betony Vernon on 2 sterling silver art pieces. For full detail you may view here.

side-open chunky knits and double-sleeves jacket are looking very layered and clever…purple shimmer cigarette trousers adds some perfect high-light to the look, so it’s not too black and dull… …

….love the bronze on black…

feminine sheered shirty blouse toughened up with leather-waistband-zip-decorated military evening trousers…

… …full on sheerness added with a tiny sparkles on cute collars…

….really love the skinny strappy sandals teaming with long cigarette pants, brings back some mid-90s vibe…

…I could see all panels are bagged out, double layered….craft!

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Decisions, decisions…

I went to Liberty the other day to try on Alexander Wang’s new SS11 collection. There’s a tent pitched in the middle of 2nd floor with a leather bench inside and a video about Wang’s AW10 show preparation. It was really amazing to see Wang is so into details – detail such as ‘getting rid of the black carpet because it was cheap looking, and instead have the whole floor wet-mopped to add on special atmosphere for the show to match the dark tailoring Wall-Street theme.’

Back to his SS11 collection, this is probably my faourite collection of his up to date. Love all the fresh mint colour and the special pointy texture on knitwear. The baggy shorts are in very draped crepe material, got a decent weight feel for the fabric and super soft and comfortable. Should I get the white longer over-the-knee shorts or fresh mint just-above-the-knee shorts???

Tags: Alexander Wang, Liberty London

A Few Favourite Outfits with Liu Wen

Liu Wen for Proenza Schouler

Liu Wen for Anna Sui

Liu Wen for Dolce & Gabbana

Liu Wen for Roberto Cavalli

Liu Wen for Rodarte

Liu Wen for Alexnader Wang

Tags: Alexander Wang, Anna Sui, Dolce & Gabbana, Liu Wen, proenza schouler, Roberto Cavalli, Rodarte