Chics 20

70's Vibe

I just wanted to upload the "brieft" (I know I still have to go in and fix a few things, especially the white blotch on the upper left hand corner) concept board I made for my Product Analysis class as part of my group assignment. Our group project is to come up with our own line of clothing (including fabric details, where we're planning to have it produce, how we're planning to market our product and everything imaginable that deals with clothes in production). We decided as a group to go with a 70s theme and were inspired by the color blocks and floral designs. There are two merchandisers (me being one of them) and two designer in my group and let me tell you, the designers are bomb! I don't know what I would do without design students in my group, I would definietly be lost. So far, we're doing pretty good, all we have to do is start putting everything together on a bigger board. All of the projects will be presented in class on May 19th in a 10-15 minute presentation, until then, wish us luck.

After deciding on a theme for our clothing and coming up with finished designs, the last thing we had to worry about was coming up with a name for our company. Since our target market are young women in their 20s, we decided to incorporate 20 in there somewhere and came up with Chics 20.

Fashion Snaps

Don't you just love street fashion?! Cause I know I do! I would have to say street fashion primarily of Asia and Europe is what really got me interested in fashion. And of course that got me into thinking of a career in the fashion industry and going to school for a Fashion Merchandising degree. I would love to travel to Asia and Europe someday after college and go crazy taking pictures (haha mentally and physically) of random people off the street and create my own fashion photobook. Now that would be fun putting together. *Sigh, now all I have to work on is getting the nerve to ask people for their permission to take their pictures. Because I know I wouldn't like it if a random stranger secretly took my picture, unless that stranger was Jay Park, then I wouldn't mind AT ALL. Heck, I would be striking poses, making peace signs and the Korean heart pose left and right! LOL-BACK to the point of this blog. I accidentally came upon this awesome website a few weeks ago that I wanted to share with you all if you haven't heard of it before. It's,

www.fashionsnap.com

The website is in Japanese but don't worry, as you'll see on the upper right hand corner there is a "Language" dropbox where you can translate it to whatever language it is that you need it to be. 

I haven't really explored the website as a whole, but I've been looking at the "Street Snap" (located at the upper right hand corner of the page) section and boyyyyy, do these people have MADDD style. I love love love love love looking through the endless pages of the different street fashion. I admire these people sooo much for being able to express who they are, no matter how bizarre others may think their outfits are. 

Street Snap 

*Sigh, I wished more Asian-American guys dressed like these guys.

Oh and also besides looking at the Street Snap, there's a really fun Virtual Makeover on this website that I've been having a lot of fun with. All of the instructions are in Japanese, but if you've done any virtual makeovers before online, with a little experimenting, you'll know what to do in no time. 

Here is one of my experiments, since I couldn't save the other ones=/

 

What do you guys think? LOL

*All images are courtesy of www.fashionsnap.com 

Alice + Olivia Spring & Fall RTW 2011

Spring 2011

 

 Fall 2011

What can I say, Alice+Olivia is ♥

*All photos courtesy of www.style.com

안녕하세요 (An-nyoung-ha-seh-yo)

Besides my love of watching Korean dramas, I absolutely love the traditional Korean Hanbok! They're simple and just oh so very beautiful. Mehee Kim and Lee Young Hee are two very talented Korean Designers who took the design of the traditional Korean Hanbok up to the next level. As you all can see, both of their designs consisted of a "modernized" twist, but yet their designs are so different from each other. Of course, nothing really ever beats the beauty of the traditional outfits in all cultures, but sometimes changing things up a bit can bring in new insights. In the meantime, be prepared to get your breath taken away (of course not literally) by these beautiful designs=)

Mehee Kim Designs

Lee Young Hee Designs

Lee Young Hee

 

 

 

Miscellaneous 

For Kicks and Giggles 

As a club member and participant of the International Fashion Show last year during my first year of college, I represented South Korea wearing a beautiful pink Hanbok. LOL, here are some pictures of my fabulous friend Paser and I having fun trying them on.

 

In general, I think traditional clothing from EVERY culture are just soooo beautiful! Being Hmong, I'm just so thankful that the Hmong communities have events every year for everyone to showcase their beautiful Hmong clothes. Honestly, when I was younger, I always dreaded wearing Hmong clothes to the Hmong New Years and always wanted to wear the latest style of Abercrombie or Hollister. LOL, however, as I'm getting older, I'm starting to appreciate and embrace my culture more and what do you know, now I LOVE wearing Hmong clothes to the Hmong New Years! Come to think of it, there are MANY talented Hmong Designers that I will definitely have to blog about in the near future. Until then, good luck to every one on their studies

and 

 당신을 사랑합니다

(Saranghae, I Love You)

P.S. I hope Google Translate did me justice. LOL, if not, please let me know if you speak Korean and write Hangul. I surely don't want to put up anything that misinterprets what I want to say.

*All images were found on Google Images

There's just something about men

Song Seung-Heon

in suits that I find REALLLY attractive

I wouldn't consider myself a drama freak, haha, well at least not anymore that I'm in college. However, I've had my fair share of watching endless dramas online in the past. This semester, I haven't had time to watch any Korean Dramas, but the most recent one I watched last semester was called "My Princess," and I really enjoyed it even though the plot was pretty predictable. What I really loved about this drama were the outfits that the lead actor and actress wore, especially the male lead. I loved how he was always dressed up in a suit, haha, of course that had to do with who he was and his job position-but still, he just always looked soo clean, intelligent, put together in it and not to mention HANDSOME wearing them. It was hard for me to find pictures of him in the many different suits he wore in the drama, so the images I found of him above doesn't justify what I'm talking about. SO, if you all have a chance and time, you should all go watch the drama or watch clips of it to understand what I'm talking about=)

My Princess

*All photos were found on Google Images

John Galliano Spring RTW 2011

John Galliano

Spring 2011

 Again, I love the fun, playful look. 

*All photos courtesy of www.style.com

Tsumori Chisato Spring RTW 2011

Tsumori Chisato

Spring 2011

As much as I love florals, prints and classic pieces, I also love fun, playful looks like these ones. As you may have all noticed, a lot of the designer blogs I post up are of designers who aren't that well known and that's because I believe these designers deserve recognition as well as the very well known ones. I'm not saying one is better than the other, because we can all agree that they're all pretty good! I'm saying, if I just spent time checking out the Spring/Fall collections of the very well known designers, look at what I would be missing out on-ALL of my previous awesome blog posts of course=)

*All photos courtesy of www.style.com

Temperley London Spring & Resort RTW 2011

Spring 2011 

  Resort RTW 2011

You can never go wrong with the classic colors of black, white or grey! They never go out of style. As I'm growing older, I'm starting to notice that I'm buying more classic color, versus when I was younger, and preferred to buy a lot of bold colors and prints. Of course, thats not to say that I stopped buying bold colors and prints all together, but my wardrobe is getting more classy.
I love delicate detail cuts on the blouses for the Resort Wear and the geometric patterns of the other ones.

Rachel Roy Spring RTW 2011

Rachel Roy

 Spring RTW 2011

 

First of all, I just want to say that I love the turquoise in the first two pieces. As you may have noticed, in most of the photo blogs I've been posting, there's been a trend of really bold vibrant colors and subtle nude colors. Of course throughout it all, there are also a lot of fun, lovely prints=)

*All images are courtesy of www.style.com