Oh, and it should be noted that the people over at Gizmodo don’t know what they’re selling… DO THEY NOT KNOW HERMES IS KNOWN FOR THEIR SCARVES!?

TWO MORE EXAMS AND THEN I’M DONE WITH THE SEMESTER! YAY! I’m super-duper excited to be taking an extended break away from school.

Up until now, my life has been filled with nothing but studying and finishing up my window display for the 303 Window Display exhibit around Denver. I finished on Monday :P

Do you want to see? The correct answer is yes…

Last I heard, the clothes were re-styled because the shop owner got new product in the day afterward :/

As well: I do apologize for the night photography. The installation took place in the evening and I finished around 9pm so it was too dark for amazingly-crisp photos.

If you happen to be in/around Denver this year between Dec. 4th - Dec. 25th, I’ve attached the map of participating stores (PDF) so you can grab it and take a walk around to see all of them :) Happy Holidays!

~ 303 Window Display Map ~

Personally I believe that fashion is a bitch (albeit a delightfully mysterious and eclectic one), but I guess the old cliché holds true here too ;)

This Thanksgiving, I’ll be finishing up sewing a prom dress for a friend that should have been done, oh, I don’t know… last prom season, but c’est la vie right?

Send me a text in between bites of pumpkin pie and turkey, I always love to get to know my readers :) 646.657.9619

Image Courtesy: ohlalamag

Daul Kim, you are truly missed, may you rest in peace!

Images Courtesy: various sources

I wanted to have this post up a little over a week prior, when my blood pressure had nearly doubled and my excitement was at an all-time high, but now will certainly do.

As you may or may not know (depending upon your locale) 303 Magazine is Denver’s Fashion Mag. They do awesome spreads and definitely provide a charming and fun inside look to fashion… think Surface Mag, but with a more Colorado and upscale-esque vibe.

Anyway, I’m interning with them currently on a venture that is sure to be CO’s answer to NY’s FNO and the all-around holiday cheer that is always present this time of year on the streets of NYC and Manhattan-based retail stores.

Cue drumroll please.

Currently I’m working with an awesome shop on Larimer Square called Eve with the fabulous and fun owner, Sabine. I’ll keep you updated with the progress of the project and some final snaps of what will surely be an awesome display open to the thousands of people that frequent Larimer Street.

Image Courtesy: 303 Magazine

I was thinking about doing some written editorial content to summarize each of the rest of the shows from this season that I particularly liked, especially because I felt my writing style and form of literary expression evolved while I was authoring posts for some of the NYFW shows, but I felt that it was drawing the inspiration away from some of the term papers that I had to write.

However, I would like to share my decisions. Most notably, I absolutely adore Galliano, Lanvin, both the Marc and LV shows, Rodarte, Anna Sui and especially the Alexander McQueen SS10 shows… here are some of my absolutely favorite looks!

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I’m hoping to transform this feature into an ongoing enterprise, but only time will tell how this will pan out - I’m sure this comic pretty much turned out to be an inside joke with myself, however it’s still rather comical. Seeing as how being a college student requires me to carry around my computer with me at all times, I will always have a way of creating something like this…

And no, they won’t all be about Lagerfeld (though this is a series), that would make me feel as though I’m encroaching upon FakeKarl’s niche, and I wouldn’t want that - FakeKarl is almost god-like! I have some lovely concepts drawn out with Marc and some other figureheads. ‘LORENZOOOOOO!’

Instead, it’s just been a wicked whirlwind of finishing up school projects, exams, papers, more exams and studying.

Anyways, time has opened up considerably and I did manage to use the *few* spare moments I’ve had since my last post culminating two things. One of which is this post, and another one scheduled for Monday. Wow.

I’ve come up with a new concept for After a Fashion which I believe may be quite interesting: Pocket shoots - read: pocket photoshoots, or microshoots if you’re so inclined :) And this happens to be my first one! A pocket shoot, by my definition consists of a mini-editorial between three and five outfits.

As you know, other editorial spreads that I’ve done have costed me a great deal of money (considering location, makeup, clothing and jewelry et al), and probably most importantly: time, a precious resource which I haven’t seen in a long time. It’s odd seeing as how even though I work more, I do that whole “school” thing a whole lot less. As such, I wanted to see if I could accomplish an entire shoot for under $50 and only spend a few hours in aggregate.

Hard right? It was, surprisingly! It only took two trips to vintage/thrift stores for the apparel though, (luckily I had a bunch of makeup and jewelry left over from my last shoot) and several hours to actually take the pictures - with me as photographer. I’ve found that I like being Shoot Director/Stylist/Designer more, but with a two man/woman team, I’d say that this turned out to be rather successful!

But anyway, now to the fun part!

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I apologize in advance for the long-winded nature of this post, but my excitement bled through my fingers when I was authoring this article. Over the past two weeks, I’ve been given a great opportunity - to trial one of Nokia’s premier devices: The Nokia N97.

On Monday, October 5th, I received a package from a DHL courier. Wrapped inside a tastefully minimalistic black box was a beautiful white Nokia N97 - a device that I’ve been extremely anxious to receive, just waiting to get my hands on since it’s debut earlier this year. The good people over at WomWorld.com (the sponsor) were kind enough to send the white version without me even having to ask – it was the model that truly interested me.

Upon first glance, I found that it was smaller than I had anticipated, thicker sure… but definitely less wide than my current device (an iPhone 3G).

I quickly popped in my sim card and turned the device on. The anticipation was almost at rupturing point now as I waited for the device to power on.

I was immediately presented with a clean, concise home screen; one that I was able to customize quickly with a few apps and a wallpaper of my choice (already this beat the customizability of my iPhone which doesn’t allow you to do more than add or reorder apps). Already I was sure that this device was meant as an alternative to a business-centric smart phone. Even though there are plenty of apps initially installed that help with productivity, the nod towards media was certainly stronger – which is certainly welcome indeed to a fashion blogger!

The 32GB internal memory is enough for a LOT of songs – even more enjoyable with the included wired remote and headphones, with which I could change songs, control the volume and even answer a call. That’s certainly a lot of function for a fashionista constantly connected to their phone! Much to my dismay, I wasn’t able to get my stereo Bluetooth headset to work with the N97 (I traded wired headsets in for music and calls on my stereo Bluetooth Altec Lansing Back Beat 903’s months ago). Music on the device was steady, loud and crisp (both through the headset and multiple speakers on the base of the device). Just think of the fun you could have in-between runway shows or at a meeting, listening to music and answering emails ALL whilst browsing the internet.

Another welcome feature was the ability to run several apps at the same time – a feature that is unfortunately, and inappropriately missing from the iPhone. I could run my twitter client, Gravity, while having my browser open and an email draft running in the background.

The five-megapixel camera took awesome shots… ones that I would usually think were from my old point and shoot rather than a phone’s camera. If I were ever at a moment without my bulkier 12-megapixel camera, shots from this would certainly suffice (for blog or otherwise).  You might get a world of perspective of the quality of the pictures from Bryanboy’s blog. He’s been using the device for the past several months and has posted to his blog a range of shots from the N97’s camera.

So, the million-dollar question. Is this phone perfect for a fashion blogger, and if so, would you buy one?

For a blogger? No. It doesn’t have the rich abilities that an iPhone does with Wordpress (my personal choice) or with Typepad.

However, this phone is perfect. Literally… It seemed better at times than my iPhone (the fact that 3G on my regular iPhone sim on the N97 was faster than on my iPhone was slightly bewildering). For a fashion blogger it may not be so simple. The fact that I could enrich the phone with media and connectivity was awesome. I felt as though I had all my social networking relationships just a click away. But at the same time, the apps seem slightly more sophisticated on the iPhone (as does the media player) and the fact that I could do everything I could on the N97 that I can do on my iPhone is a kick in the bucket.

So, would I buy one? Definitely. I’ve been known to carry around more than one cell at the same time and this device seems like a worthy companion… the keyboard is AWESOME and I wish that it were present on my iPhone. The camera is powerful and well placed. The customizability is well thought out.

I’m dreading, dreading, sending this phone back because it’s the end of my trial, especially because the device in the states is about seven-hundred-dollars. But who cares, right? Fashion isn’t always about the bargain.

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Device Trial Courtesy: WomWorld.com

Dark and mysterious were the overtones at Roksanda Ilincic in her SS10 collection in London this season. Luxurious and feminine is what the audience feels when they finally step past the immediate Poe-vibe posterior.

The bold clash of textures and bizarre mix of materials (such as feathers galore) would have been enough to make even the Raven shriek in utter horror. Feathers and satin were a prominent theme among the progression of garments and provided a welcome break from the other drab, color-hungry collections show as of yet… I need not repeat myself when I say that these are spring - spring! - collections currently being presented and especially in a time of financial enlightenment. Why have I seen little more than dull neutrals and blacks in a time when designers literally have free reign to take color and aesthetics to a new level?

Ms. Ilincic seems to understand the predicament quite well and managed to provide something that felt classic and elegant yet also daring in convention.

Ilincic managed to bombard her audience with a chic arrangement of feminine cuts and smart use of color, but from a dainty and dignified perspective. Women’s eveningwear is nothing without a strong sense of composition and nod to the female form - both factors Ilincic managed to demonstrate that she understands very, very well.

As a designer myself, I know that when working with satin there are seemingly endless posibilities abound for structure and form but without a modern take on its appropriate use, a adage of feathers and other unique components become boring rather than the rare treat that it is indeed.

Images Courtesy: coutorture media

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