Soft Colours and Drapes

While randomly flipping through Style.com and a few of my favourite collections from Resort 2010, I found Moschino using soft colours and lightweight fabric at the same time. Since coming back to Malaysia the weather has been so hot and humid that light fabric is all I can think about.

My favourite is this colour combination... Nude and black... Obviously 'cause I used a similar colour pallete for my fashion show garment 2 months ago hehe.

I love love this simple dress. It's got a beautiful drape on one shoulder and the fabric is so light and lovely I wish I had one to wear right now!

Again Im in love with the colour pallete!

These baggy genie pants seem to be everywhere lately. I haven't tried one myself because I thought i would look weird... but they seem really comfortable! Perfect for a long flight.

Max Azria also caught my eye because of their loose and tight concept... Using plenty of stretch fabric and light colours.

Loving the details on the sleeves and how loose it is on the top yet tight around the hips.

A little white dress with very subtle drape details.

I really love the white shirt. It's a very see-through fabric but drapes nicely over the body... I found a beautiful shirt like this from Zara a few weeks ago but it was pricey so I didn't get it... instead I went to the fabric store and bought 1 metre of cloth that's still in my luggage... Will attempt to make a similar shirt soon with my fingers crossed haha.

Some old sketches I did back in London while my sis and I lazed around in Starbucks... My very own virtual Resort 2010 Collection x)

And an outfit I wore sometime in London while waiting for my sis in the fitting room. I had on a simple oversized white shirt from Bershka that I belted and my favourite blazer...

Amazing Photoshoots!!!

While my course has officially come to an end this term... I dug up some of the awesome photoshoots my group did for our fashion magazine project...

Since we were all on tight budget we used our own group members to model...






This girl is a born model and she's got super legs and a fresh looking face and even her voice is sexy! I love her photos... these two are the best in my opinion and she's aspiring to become a more professional model.






This photoshoot was for an ad for the brand UNCONDITIONAL. If im not mistaken it's they're spirng/summer 2009 collection and they look so good! Make-up and all done by students too.







This girl is an aspiring dancer... She's got the longest legs in the world (quote from Confessions of a Shopaholic movie haha) ... and because of her we got the best photoshoots among the rest of the group!






I love this girl too... She's very young... 19 if not mistaken... rebellious and sporting and unbelievably photogenic!

Now for the worst of our photoshoots...

My group wanted me to do one for a H&M ad in conjunction with the all new Matthew Williamson collection... So I had on the bikini and thankfully a retro printed kaftan...




As you can see I insisted on wearing the sunglasses because MY FACE SUCKS and I have a thing about eyebags that even Photoshop would have a major breakdown trying to edit.










We had a hard time trying to find the proper location to shoot because the air was cold and windy and I was dying from the chill while trying to pose like Im having the time of my life in a bikini and kaftan!!!

Nevertheless I think the photos turned out better than I expected thanks to the sunglasses!

I will be going back to Malaysia for holidays in a week! Shall be on the look out for interesting Asian styles and hopefully be brave enough to ask them to let me take their pictures for my blog. Hehe!

Knee-High

I'm often daunted to try styles that I could never see myself in before....

One of which are Knee-High socks that are popular especially among Lolita fashion styles but lately hitting the runways, highstreet stores and matched in so many different ways that it doesn't appear 'Lolita-ish' anymore.

Well to be honest I saw this womanin the train station... probably around her late 30s... fit as a fiddle and wearing a knitted jumper with long black linen skirt that reached right above her knee, and yes she had on a pair of knee-high socks. People might have thought that her style of dressing was wayyyy too flashy for her age but I thought she pulled it off nicely!

So I was like heck... if that woman was brave enough to wear her knee-high socks at that age I should be showing mine off while im still 18.

So I went to my room and rummaged my sock drawer and pulled out a pair of knee-high socks that I only wore with my boots during the winter six months ago... And I couldn't wait to see what clothes I had in my closet that I could mix them with for today's meeting with my friends at college.

Okay I took these photos in my college toilet because believe it or not I had no decent position in my room to take a full length photo without capturing a messy background.... Plus there was no full length mirror in my room.

So to crop out the toilet bowl, basin, dustbin and tissue roll on the floor... I photoshopped my images...





I'm currently in love with pairing a formal looking blazer with more casual pieces... I often pair it with jeans skirt and trousers... But this time i found this knitted grey dress I had in my closet that i thought would go well with the knee-high socks... The blazer came to my mind instantly and to my surprise this is the first time I mixed a new style so quickly.





And the moment I walked into college my group mates sent me praises about the outfit... I now believe I will be wearing knee-high socks as often as my new blazer obsession.

London makes me want to try new styles all the time... If I ever do meet that woman who I assume is in her 30s at the train station again, I'm gonna smile at her and tell her she looked awesome in knee-high socks.