ABOUT GODDAMN TIME

After much sweat, tears, sleepless nights, cranky phone calls, Chinese take-out and coughing fits from sickness and overwork...

PROJECTWHITETSHIRT.COM IS HERE!!! YAY! Unbelievable! Ritchie, Stephanie and I have been working non-stop on this for the past few months. Ritchie backpacked through Europe on his own dime this past summer to interview 31 designers from 13 different countries and ask them to join Project White T-Shirt so that they can burn it, trash it, re-create it, transform it, or whatever. My favorite result? I can't decide. I probably shouldn't talk about them anyway since not all of the designer previews have been unveiled yet. But! One of my favorites IS already online... The Marshmallow Tee by Doktor Doktor/ A Bug Collection They covered a T-shirt in marshmallows to mimick pyramid-studded tees and to represent the "price you pay for fashion... and it smells good!" I can only imagine how good it smells. I love marshmallows. I keep jars of them on my countertops at winter time just to have the perfect hot chocolate mixture.

Anyway... CALLING ALL L.A. RESIDENTS, CHECK OUT THE OPENING AT WELCOME HUNTERS in Chinatown on the 19th!! Also, seriously go to the website and check out the video interviews, they're really fun. Each week, 8 more designers are going up on the website and on the 19th, the exhibition opens and the last previews go up at the same time.

We're auctioning off the pieces to anyone who bids and donating all the proceeds to Designers Against AIDS so even after all this, the only reward is really how much fun its been to set up, meeting all these creative fun people and killing each other with late-night last minute panicky episodes.



Stephanie, Ritchie and Me in L.A. this summer "working" on Triple-Major.

Yay! Celebrate with me.

REASONS WHY I'VE BEEN MIA THIS MONTH

THOSE ROCKS NEARLY KILLED ME.

Everytime I update it feels like I'm talking about another trip I took out of NYC.

Anyway this time it was the Hamptons. Neha's 21st birthday of which I feel like I should have taken more photos but I only developed 2 rolls, still waiting on the 3rd. It was a lot of fun and I had a life/death experience on these slippery humongous rocks on the cliff by the sea and a battle scar to prove it but at least i didn't fall off!



Then it was Fashion Week and Ritchie came to say hi and bludger me with his midnight web projects. I'm designing Project White T-shirt and Triple-Major. Unfortunately at the time I had so much homework from spending the weekend in the Hamptons so I wasn't as fun as I should have been but he might come back sometime soon for a day so we can talk over it again. I think we should just Skype but Ritchie is one of those rare creatures that hates all manners of speaking that are not in person.

We also went to Fashion's Night Out and it wasn't fun as expected but I got to see Camille a few days later and that was! We went to Epistrophe and ordered too much food.



These rocks nearly killed me.


Next summer is looking more and more busy. I might be going to Berlin for a bit.

LOST ANGELES AND THE CITY OF SMOKE

I just spent a few days in LA with my sister but am now (thankfully) back in my comfy abode in New York. While I was gone I had nightmares that a cat climbed into my fishbowl to eat Flushy (my goldfish) and when I woke up I wondered with a sinking feeling whether I'll ever be able to adopt a cat now. Do cats even really hunt/prey on goldfish?

I met up with Ritchie while I was in LA (3rd photo). We had dinner at Hungry Cat, Sushi Gen, some thai place and went to Blu Jam on the morning before my flight. Turns out he's started his own business now (at 21 years old!) called Triple-Major (more details to come in following blog posts) to represent his current White T-Shirt Project and future projects. He asked me to design the website for White T-Shirt project and maybe Triple-Major as well. Most of Triple-Major is supposed to be kept under wraps for now... as well as the results of the White T-Shirt Project but I can safely say that of the products I've seen so far, I'm most excited about Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair's recreated T-Shirt and some guy from who-knows-where whose inspiration was the Michelin tire mascot. The pieces from the White T-Shirt project are going to be auctioned, with all proceeds going to Designers Against AIDS.

Of course while I was in LA I checked out Ooga Booga and Creatures of Comfort. Ooga Booga is a recent discovery whose only description I can give is fucking amazing, and Creatures of Comfort has been one of my favorite stores for a while. I picked up a fun grey sweater-cape by Slow and Steady Wins the Race and a pair of tribal-esque tights from Henrik Vibskov and a super amazing fun faux fox stole (also by Slow and Steady) from Ooga Booga. Slow and Steady is really getting amazing. I really like their black crushed velvet wedges Oak carried a while back, but Ooga Booga carries exclusive/limited edition pieces like this light denim version. The employees at Ooga Booga are really nice and friendly too. Diitto for Creatures of Comfort, but Ooga Booga seems like the only place I'd ever want to work retail, surrounded by art books, photos, music, clothes and fun things all day in the middle of Chinatown, LA.

WHY MENSWEAR WILL ALWAYS BE A LITTLE BIT BETTER... #1

And another reason to love the surfer chick (or dude) aesthetic. Can't you just see it with Rick Owen's DRKSHDW collection for girls? All the lines swimming along in harmony. I'll keep dreaming then.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF TOKYO

Seriously. You've all made me hate the victory sign. IT'S NOT KAWAII! ~*~v(^____^)v~*~

BIG PHOTOS FOR BIG NEWS

New York can be so beautiful, but I am looking forward to going to Tokyo soon! 6 more days until my bags are packed and I'm off. Stephanie (my twin) and I are going to spend 3 days in Tokyo, a week in Aomori and Sendai and then one last day in Tokyo before she moves back to L.A. and I come back to New York. I'm bringing a small bag and a backpack and 5 rolls of film and every yohji yamamoto thing I own. Which is not a lot. But the occasion requires it anyway, doesn't it? If I get eaten by macaques in the hot springs, so be it. At least it will be a beautiful passing in the mist and springs. Dear world, I will miss all the food I never got the chance to eat, Shake Shack's shackburgers, Neha's epic and long-awaited 21st birthday and the last two installments of the Harry Potter movies. Please feed my goldfish when I'm gone.

BOWLED OVER

Not much to say lately, mostly because fashion and clothing are the same boring regurgitated excess. I never see anything new. I bought two pairs of socks today by Tsumori Chisato and felt like life was repeating itself again. In 3 weeks I'm going to Tokyo and I hope it rejuvenates me. Japan has a way of doing that.

STRANGE CREATURE

Student project;

I've been taking a Lighting class (Photography) and a Magazine class this semester! Lots of work. Lots of editing, designing, layouts and post processing. These photos were done by Chloe Moore although I did the art direction/concept, styling (obviously) and modeling (also obviously). Haha. Violet Xie did the make-up. I was inspired by Chadwick Tyler's monster series of those strange models with contorted bodies, tarantulas, and some of Kristin Vicari's work (in terms of lighting).