Day 3: Joey Ma

Oh crap! Totally forgot to do one today. Does this still count? This will not be as crazy long as the other two since its 12 and I want to sleep. Anyways.

Day 3 will be about Joey Ma, a fashion blogger in Hong Kong.


Joey Ma at the Opening Ceremony x Lane Crawford event yesterday
(image from Lane Crawford)

I first noticed Joey when I was going through the photos on the LC website. To be quite honest, I'm not one for guys in skirts. But I do have to say I was intrigued. Thus began my search through his blog, entitled I N D I V I D U A L I T Y, which I definitely recommend you to check out cause he's fearless when it comes to the way he dresses.


(images all from his blog, except LC photo)


In his photos, he can look super scary with his straight face, but after watching the Vimeo video at the top of his blog page, he actually seems super nice!


Is it silly that I chose this photo cause it was posted on my birthday? Heehee. I feel like his outfits would look great on girls too.


I particularly love the choice of background in this shot!

Okay, off to finish off some work before bed. Please do check out his blog here & watch the interview video!

Day 2: Diana Vreeland

Today's fashion figure is Diana Vreeland.

Diana Vreeland in the early 1980s
(all images from getty images)

Some information from Wikipedia:

Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1903, Paris, France – August 22, 1989, New York City) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar (Fashion Editor, 1937-1962) and Vogue (Editor in Chief, 1963-1971) and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Consultant, from 1971).

With Harper's Bazaar magazine editor Peggy LeBoutillier working on the Paris fashion show layouts

Other random facts:

She was portrayed in the movie Factory Girl (2006).
While working at Vogue, she discovered Edie Sedgwick.
She was fired from Vogue in 1971.

There's another article titled "The Divine Mrs. V" by New York Magazine which is quite long so I won't include, but its an interesting article about her life. Some of the things they talked about were her "signature epigrammatic style" of writing in her column "Why Don't You" based on the theme of "Don't just be your ordinary dull self", her mother's comment about how "It's too bad that you have such a beautiful sister and that you are so extremely ugly and so terribly jealous of her. This, of course, is why you are so impossible to deal with", and in one memo she instructed her Vogue staff to all wear bells at the office.

circa 1955: Diana Vreeland wearing a tube top and mini skirt, holding a leopard print purse, umbrella, and a cigarette, Southampton, New York.

circa 1975: Diana Vreeland points to a hole in a blouse worn by Empress Elizabeth, which was caused by an assassin's bullet, on display at an exhibition, probably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

At the opening for the Glory of Russian Costume Exhibition

With Bill Blass during her Costume Exhibition on December 8, 1980 at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

A photo shoot in 1976 at her residence in New York

Well she's certainly an inspiration. To me its being criticized by her mother yet she is still able to go out there and be something.

Hi!

It's been awhile since I've updated. Been so busy with quizzes, recruitment talks, sleep, and such. One of the many things was the recruitment talk for Lane Crawford's Graduate Leadership Program.

It was quite interesting learning more about what goes on behind the scenes and Lane Crawford, as opposed to what I usually think about it (the nice clothes and accessories inside the store). They also gave out these super cool information packets, with a CD, pencil, post-its, sticker, and some further information about the program and how it works.


 The inside cover, with photos of their events for the Lane Crawford staff and other events. Together, it makes up a heart.

 The inside: post-its, LOVE Lane Crawford sticker, pencil, and info pamphlet.

Anyways, as I've been frantically looking for summer internships and future jobs and such, it made me think about how I really don't know much about fashion. What particularly made me realize this was when one of the presenters at the recruitment talk asked if anyone knew who Anna Dello Russo was, I wanted to pinch myself for not knowing because I've heard her name before. Yes, it makes me ashamed of myself just to think about it. So what I'm thinking is a project (for lack of a better word) where I'll blog about one person from the industry a day, whether they're a designer, photographer, editor, fashion director, whatever.

So today I've picked Arthur Elgort.

One of the reasons I love photography so much is fashion photography. There's just something so appealing to me about all the colors (or lack of in B&W shots), clothes (of course), models, emotions, mood created from just one shot of the camera. Anyway, I was reading Coco Rocha's Tumblr post about Arthur Elgort and it made me interested.

One month plus late

So I am just now catching up on the FW11 fashion week collections.

Current obsession: this LV clutch/handbag. Loving the rough texture of the monogram over the smooth material of the bag. Also loving the bag straps and the buckle. Really just loving it all.

Mega & Mega Vintage

London-esque store, with the fitting room designed in the form of a London phone booth (image from Pandanomo's Flickr)

One thing I miss most about Beijing is knowing my way around, and all those familiar restaurants and places that I go to. I was just thinking about vintage shopping (again), and I happened to stumble upon Mega & Mega Vintage's blog page again. I found out about it a year or so back when I was browsing Lookbook's China/Beijing page. I've been wanting to pay M&M Vintage a visit, but since I no longer live in Beijing, I can't really do that!

Well anyway, just thought I'd share some photos.

(From their photo gallery)

Ahhhh mountains of bags!!

A vintage dress from their most recent collection of dresses (season 23), more can be found in their photo gallery

Another dress from season 11, from their blog

A dress from season 16. I'm usually not much of fan for red, but there's something about this dress that I really like.

Will you be mine?

I want.

American Eagle in HK

I feel like they are a few years late on this...

Outfit

Excuse my feet...

H&M jacket and jeans, Celine bag


I usually get really annoyed with my hair in my face, so this is a nice way to get rid of hair from my face. Found the tutorial on cutesygirl09's YouTube page. Just did a quick search and I guess she deleted it. Well, it's nothing that special, just twisting hair in so that you can pin it at the back.

On another note, there's the Lanvin for H&M men's coat that I got for my dad, but later returned. I guess that was a good idea, ended up getting a cookbook and marking down a few recipes to cook him (never happened), but that saved me a few thousand HKD.

Marketing quiz on Tuesday and I'm procrastinating by blogging, as always. Better go sleep and study effectively tomorrow.