Higgledy - Piggledy

True Religion

2009-08-21T10:55:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking a lot about my progression in life this year.
A lot of things happened this year, and I could say that they were rather nerve-poking.

And right now I'm relying to The Boss up there to do all the work. I'll just follow Him from behind,...no complain.

Jean Paul Gaultier CTR SS'07

What's your religion today? love, life, or fashion?

Nothing is Perfecto

2009-05-24T13:48:00.000-07:00

Midnight craving...

Maje

Acne

Miu Miu
Rick Owens
Miu Miu

If only I can buy these with love, not money.

Schott x Jeremy Scott

Life is unfair, I know.

Image source: here

MOOD.swingin..

2009-05-24T10:54:00.000-07:00

I'm having this growing up issue -a g a i n- for the gazzillionth time.
why can't I be childish?
(I can hear my hormones talking oh-so-loudly right now)

♥

Vogue US
Issue: December 2003
Model: Natalia Vodianova
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz

I've always been in love with this fashion spread. ♥

If a n*gga get an attitude..

2009-05-24T09:14:00.000-07:00

V
Photography Mario Testino
Model Katrin Thormann
Styling Beat Boliger

'nuff said.
<3

Going Kahlo

2009-05-22T23:56:00.000-07:00

I always adore Frida Kahlo, and her way of interpreting her agony through art. And up until now, she has been an inspiration for female artists and feminist.

And I a d o r e this fashion spread from DuJour Magazine. They interpret Kahlo in edgy, kitschy and yet the direction of the whole photo spread gives a lot sense of sophistication.

DuJour Magazine
Issue: March/April 2009
Photographer: Denise Boomkens
Model: Sylvia Reyn
Styling: Inge de Lange
Make up: Chantal

Instead of recreating her famous uni brow, they've made the eye brow as the focal point of the make up. Note -the more the merrier- patterns that's written all over the place, and yet they still compliment each other. And I'm loving the idea. <3

BOOM BOOM POP!

2009-05-22T13:10:00.000-07:00

The thing about POP music, is that it's so popular that you just can't get it out of your head. And right now the song Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas is just stuck in my head for God knows how long.

Come to think of it I like the word "POW", it reminds me of Lichtenstein's

Roy Lichtenstein, "Sweet Dreams, Baby!" (1965)

And you have to see these 'KA-POW' rings and necklaces by a Tokyo based brand: Ambush. ♥ ♥ ♥

The necklaces...

and..the rings..

Wouldn't it be fun if you could express your punch to a person you hate with style?

If you check out their website, you can see Rihanna's picture wearing the 'POW!' rings, and they have the hello kitty version as well.
:9

and oh, check out their other 'KA-BAM!' breed that I like..

Loving them Beet <3

Roarr

2009-05-22T11:00:00.000-07:00

I saw this captivating image of Grace Jones wearing (of course) S.Jones' couture hat on the cover of V's spring cover a couple of months ago online, and I saw the real issue today at the bookstore. (i have a liiiiife! a real life!)

Do you ever get turned on by seeing visuals? like..porn.
You know, that adrenaline rushing to your face and everything? but not necessarily has to be sexually wanting to do something with yourself..er......
I got that adrenaline rushing to my face when I see this image..
Well anyways, that's not the point of this post.

So.. fierce.

And what I didn't realize is that bowler hat, the placing of the hat, the smirk and with the baldness of ms Jones.. she looks awfully like Elmer Fudd from the Looney Tunes, yes?

I found this really rea lly interesting.

<3

GUESS

2009-05-21T12:31:00.000-07:00

WHO
WHO
WHO
BOUGHT

one of the collection from

ADIDAS X JEREMY SCOTT

I got the hots for the leopard like jumper, as in.. VERY HOT.... but when I see the actual garment..
2 things came up to my disappointment (note that these thoughts came up for just 2 seconds):
1. the color is much more desaturated
2. very adorable for the moment, for the moment that means with that amount it's not an investment...
So I decided to choose the center one in gray (with oh so many consideration),
the tuxedo-like jumper...

:}}

the look from official preview
:}
here's my version

i
am
in
<3

10May09

2009-05-21T01:02:00.000-07:00

I suck at stealing, lying, and the whatnot. But I did steal something for the sake of me being there for the AFF's closing show: Vivienne Westwood for Anglomania. :9
I can't risk the thought of:

'maybe she will be there in person'
if she was really there I won't be able to sleep well for the rest of my life regreting

well she wasn't there but she did make an effort to make a video greeting everyone who's there that night. (that includes me! :9)

I can't really say I was dissapointed because she wasn't there. I was pleased to see her show, with the whimsical, mockery, playful, and -as usual- rebellious style of design. Through the make-up, hair, head pieces, iridescent fabrics, cuttings, styling etc etc. And of course: COLORS COLORS COLORS

Image source: here

<3

Late.AFF'09.1

2009-05-19T06:46:00.000-07:00

Since it's already my hols, I want to keep my schedule tight, so I will not end up potato-couch-ing or found dead on my bed, with my back already shaped like my pillow.
One of the things I did is by volunteering at Singapore's Audi Fashion Festival 2009.

let me name some of the showcase that AFF'09 will be having from 6-10th of May

......

MARC JACOBS

GARETH PUGH

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

CHRISTIAN LACROIX

...
......

can't it be anymore major than this?
(actually it can, if all the designers actually came to the show)
the wild card goes to Gareth Pugh!

well God taught us to not take things for granted, and to appreciate what you have, and stop wanting what you can't have....
so let's just breathe in the moment.. :)
here are some images to feed you..

they played the video

Last 7 images: Dazed Digital

Comments: by observing Matthew Stone's pictures it's rather clear to me that -again- the emphasis of Gareth Pugh AW09 collection is on: texture.

Last note: I have a video of Vivienne Westwood greeting everyone who came to the show *including moi, who successfully sneaked in to the show* and I'm gonna post it soon after I found the cable for my camera.

anyways, guess who got lucky ;9

Astrina, Me & The Designer

Currently..

2009-05-19T01:24:00.000-07:00

I'm on my holidays.
yippikayaay mother f*cker!

I love love love love love love miss Page

gap months

2009-05-18T13:44:00.000-07:00

I dedicate this post for myself..and the people from Lasalle who has been working their brains and guts out to get their assignments ready on time.......

Here are the things I have been working on for I don't know how effing long it's been since I wrote the last post.

it took me...eff eff eff ing long to decide which....LAYOUT..COLOR...TEXT...IMAGES...JESUS...my head hurts just thinking about the things I needed to do before the due effing date.
I don't know whether I'm the one whose being slow or it's just plain ..tricky to decide....
anyways...I guess it was worth the torture?

This is for Fashion Design Studio Subject..

and the fabric library...
which contains..the fabric of course..
:)
and and and I didn't take any picture of my Visual&Presentation Portfolio..smart move,del.
well..
note to self: never bind all of your books during assessment week....

Haba Haba Hama...

2009-03-22T12:02:00.000-07:00

Sooooooooo....I bought Hama beads from Jakarta for about A YEAR already and I haven't made ANYthing...yet..

until last week..

(AGAIIN LAST WEEK was my non-school-related-productive week)
I made this necklace..

in which i L*O*V*E
:}

I made the pattern free hand... myself.... ( YAY D.I.Y.!)

please note the Terry Richardson-esque photos// :}

Me looking high...

Look! I look like kate moss.. LOLLL...

zoom in..zoom in

I used me digi-cam and photoshop.
(C'mon..I don't have any SLR or professional massive flash)

anywayss yeah. I just have to post this in..

Initially I only make the fang, because I want that only in the first place..
but then when I showed them to my cousin's gf, she couldn't recognize that it's a fang...
so she suggested that I should put eyes on it..
so I tried...

...
but somehow it looks like cdg's heart if I put both eyes...
because I couldn't think of any other normal still-cartoony-but-edgy eyes.....
and..plus it looks too predictable and normal for it to have 2 eyes...
so I decided to put just one. UNO. i. satu. siji.....
...
and..

I LOVE LOVE LOVE how it turns out..
I definitely am so gonna make some more of thisss...............................

Massive Earrings!!

ps. I still have some more wardrobe photos I haven't post in

I've been meaning to keep...

2009-03-19T00:51:00.001-07:00

this blog updated as much as I can..
BUT

my school (as usual).. has been sabotaging my life with its fuckloads of things to do and due within a week..................sheez..~~

anywayss..
last week I've been procrastinating with my school werk and being productive on other non-school-related stuff....well.. kinda related since it's about fashion and the whatnots.. but yeass........

anyways here are SOME of the things..
My Last Week's Sluggishness...

I really want to post the rest...
but I reallly eeeeealllyyy have to do my workk rite nooowwww....

♥ kiks ♥

2009-03-13T01:00:00.001-07:00

I want to post in pictures of my babies...
But I haven't got the time to actually take a picture of each and every1 of them..
anyways...
here's a sneak(ers) peak..

These are my adidas boxes
I took this picture in 2007.. I think.. I can't really remember..
but after that I bought another 6pairs... (err...)

they aren't all Adidas.
3 of them are. a pro model, and 2 superstars. ♥ ♥ ♥

and I bought a terminator and a Reebok freestyle.

and I got an all white AF1 (my very 1st Nike before the other 1)

so yeah.yeah.

Visual&Presentation

2009-03-12T11:48:00.001-07:00

Being a right brainer practically makes me a visualist (apparently there's no such word as a visualist but u get my point)
Image source: here

I am definitely a right brainer.
as in.. I see things from its aesthetical value..
I know..I know that is so shallow.. but hey, someone has to be the &^%$
....
.
...
.
...
the dots are cute.
...
well yeah anyways.
I made these sketches for my digital Visual & presentation class..
I kindasorda like it.. but I know I could have done more..Idk..
something with the color...or the lines etc...
...
I just can't be bothered...*yet*
....
So I had to make

Nude croquis-- raw image (2B pencil on normal paper) & the Ai colored in images. I have no idea how to use mesh tool.. but hey,I tried :}

I kinda like how it turns out, though I know I exaggerate much on the waist and calves..oh welll oh welll... my lecturer told us to 'draw it with personalities!' so there you go...

And with the clothes on

Technical drawing--

Luella SS'09 collection
Images source: here

the ruffles blew up my head........

Just Cavalli SS'09 Collection
Images source: here

the sequins is hahahaha... hahahahaha... yeah it drove me fuckmad.
AND..I got a D on the technical drawings....~~ f yeah.
well..at least I gained my Ai skill.

Mr.Brightside is my life anthem.

Watermarking

2009-03-12T09:49:00.000-07:00

I just edited my previous post because...
I got thinking about watermarking my stuff...

The thing is.. I'm not really a serious artist..or am I?..
so I'm not really sure whether I should post it with a watermark or not..
err..yeah..

well anyhow..I did it already..
and there's no harm done anyways...
so yeah..

anywayss...
I just want to post the before after picture of my hair from my blackmac photobooth.

Before.. (with the nike ardila hair style)

I just had to post this in...Image source: here
She's Nike Ardila...Indonesia's long lost 90's singer.. she died in a car accident..err..yeah..
and this..is the..

After..

kinda remind you of Chaterine Zeta Jones in Chicago, yes?
Image source: here

....err..

Level 1.1 Sjites

2009-03-11T08:31:00.000-07:00

Okay.. so I've been meaning to post this somewhere, in case my blackmac turn me down *again*..

so that the world *at least the virtual world*
knows that I made this once in my life...

so when I'm dying someday at the age Idk,, 99..I can say that I made this when I was 19...( back when I was a teenager,...sheez..)

So for fashion management class..
I have to make a business report of a RTW company..and I have to stick to that company for the whole effing semester.
..
so I chose ..yes..yes.. Balenciaga
pronounced Ba-land-see-ya-gah....

though I had some confusion when I heard Madame Menkes pronounced it Ba-long-see-ya-gah during her interview with...the creative director..

Nicolas Ghesquiere(pronounced Nee-khol-a Gess-khee-air), you can watch it here on youtube.
by the way on the back is one of his FW07 collection (inspired by one of C.Balenciaga's design).

So this image above is Suzy Menkes, Iternational Herald Tribune Fashion reporter&editor. I always wonder..why her hair looks like she's using hair roller........somehow she reminds me of my grandma from my mom, she's big in size, and she once had her hair rolled and actually went to church with it.....err..yeah..
well anyways...

I don't know why.. I have the tendencies of slurring...and losing a point of what I'm suppose to say in the first place.
note that I'm 20....
okay..
okay..
anywaysss...

I had to make a trend forecasting for friggin SS 2010.....
Even the forecaster hasn't tought of that yet.
...
sheez.
long story short I got a Beautiful B for this.
yay me.
(please note that getting a B from this particular lecturer is like witnessing sun eclipse)
:9
so yeah..........

This is the Feature Board, basically tells you about the company's profile, the characteristics and all.

and this....

is the mood board for the forecast-ed trend for Balenciaga 2010..I AM NOT SAYING THAT IT IS.. i aint no psychic....that reminds me of sylvia browne. well okay.

anyways..
I personally love the one that got rejected.. hahaha...

...
well.. Idk.. I kinda like both.

well yeah.. all of them are all in A3 size.

plus...(for the previous note)

2009-03-11T08:15:00.000-07:00

yeah. I need to have this blog to hold things together..

I don't know...
things..

Oh..
conffessiooonn....

I have NOT touched any of the FW09 collection from any designers..

hahahahahaha..

how 'impressive',del.
....

well I have seen a few..as in..a f e w...
that's because I have style.com for my homepage...for I don't know how long it has been..

I think it has been 6-7 years.....
geez.

GET YOUR LIFE ON TRACK,DEL.
oh Lord DEAR Lord...

I really...

2009-03-11T07:43:00.000-07:00

as in..

really need to actually put things in my blog.

to make things more organized...
*me, being organized here with 'higgledy-piggledy' entitled blog*

and so for you who doesn't know what higgledy-piggledy means,
well..

higgledy-piggledy |ˈhigəldē ˈpigəldē| adverb & adjective in confusion or disorder : [as adv. ] bits of paper hanging higgledy-piggledy on the furniture and walls | [as adj. ] a higgledy-piggledy mountain of newspapers.

ORIGIN late 16th cent.: rhyming jingle, probably with reference to the irregular herding together of pigs.

I don't know..
I just think that if I put things here. the readers will judge me and so on and so on lalala...

plus. I feel that my fashion expression is draining...
I'm not really sure if it's proper for me to say that I blame my major -that is fashion- for making me a bit jaded about fashion.
I know.. I know.. I'm not suppose to think that way since I theoretically love fashion. Don't get me wrong.. I do.
...
really!

I guess I'm married to it. lol.
you know how married couple stays together.
they are in a love hate relationship.
they stay together rise and fall happy or sad.. and so on and so on..
lalala.....

you know...
unconditional love.

love love love.
overrated.

personal adornment.
lalala..
okay I'm being random.
♥