Posted by
Qing on September 19, 2010 |
One commentGive Away: Autumn Wool Wrap – is Finished now!
We want to say thank you to all who entered and it was an very interesting journey to see people’s comments about our blog. Whether our readers are – some of you who spent a decent amount of time or some just passing by looking for a reference or an image, you are all highly appreciated! We know, you guys are the ones who will help it growing.
And here comes the ‘The Winner’ who is Lindsay from Kentucky (wow… that’s a far place we get our readers).
A sneaky preview of our next Giveaway here is, a hand-made leopard scarf inspired by Dries van Noten’s AW2010 collection.
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Tags: Dries Van Noten
Posted by
Qing on May 8, 2010 |
4 commentsI have expressed my love of Dries van Noten’s AW2010 show back in March (here’s the artcle).
By admiring the leopard scarf especially, I just remembered that I’ve bought a similar leopard print in velvet fabric a long time ago from which I was planning to make it into a skirt inspired by Marc by Marc Jacobs, you know, a bit of a grungee leopard dindl with contrast black elasticated waistband. Well, my laziness has saved this material and as well as in the past a few years my taste grew out of the girly grunginess. Now thanks for Dries van Noten’s AW2010 show, I have finally resolved what I’m gonna do with the fabric.
So here is the result, a leopard velvet scarf 50cm in width and 150cm in length. As much as I love Dries’ idea of mixing beige, navy, khaki and leopard together, I’m going to leave the khaki and beige to another autumnal time. Rouched shoulder detail polka dot top in Navy by H&M———Diesel mens jeans———–KG printed peep-tow chunky heel———-H&M electric blue nail varnish———–and of course hand-made Dries van Noten inspired leopard scarf. I hope you like it!
Tags: Dries Van Noten, street style
Posted by
Qing on March 8, 2010 |
No commentsSince Kenzo’s show swallowed my mind after SS2010, I’ve been completely convinced this smart-mixing-casual, glitter-mixing-matt concept. It suits someone like me—-casual, laid back, occasionally want to dress up a bit but not too dressy and still with comfiness.
He started the show with Camel, Navy and Light Khaki and that light khaki reminds me a washed old Chinese army uniform, which I used to wear in school during summer training camp. The colours are very conservative. The shapes, not! They’ve been very womanly cut and with a dash of leopard print thrown over, it looks like, if Communist Party could let loose a little bit, that would be how people dressed during Culture Revolution.
Slowly, he introduced more colours and prints. The Navi Blue…rich purple…washed olive…dash of pink….. All colours are mixed in with a bit of other colours: Blue with tiny strokes of orange and green; Purple with some smudged deep navy. He even mixes colours in that contradicted point of view, which is visually challenging our usual colour mix logic again and again.
While watching his show, I felt so inspired and literally wrote down 8 outfit ideas drawn from my own wardrobe…yeah…I can’t afford to buy all the original looks just yet… …so watch this place…ehhrrr…with my own mix-n-match in Van Noten style.
Tags: Chinese Army, Culture Revolution, Dries Van Noten
