Recycling Oh No!

Did anyone watch Fashion Police last weekend when Joan Rivers busted the real life “Cruella De Vil” herself, the editor-in-chief of Vogue America Anna Wintour, for wearing the taffeta print cocktail dress from Balenciaga's 2012 Resort collection in four different occasions for the past two months? Okay, maybe she loves the dress so much, maybe the dress has some kind of historical value for her, or whatever, but for a fashion icon like her, it was beyond unacceptable. I mean, come on, doesn’t she know that the first four points of 7 deadly sins of fashion was ‘to not wearing the same outfit more than once on public appearances’? And she was, claiming herself as the most powerful person in fashion industry but committed the worst crime ever. Oh no, what was she thinking when she put that dress on? Like, seriously Anna!

Remember when Kate Middleton caught wearing the same outfit for a number of public appearances and people started buzzing out about it and she was like, "There's nothing wrong with recycling," Um...yeah Kate, you were absolutely right. But Kate was nothing like Anna. She was just a next door girl who happened to marry a prince hence becoming a sudden fashion icon for any young girl living their dreams that someday they might marry their princes as well. Anna was nothing like that, there was nothing 'next door' about her whatsoever. In fact, she was the one who defines what fashion and what not. She was Cruella De Vil of fashion! She has often been the target of animal rights organizations like PETA, who are angered by her use of fur in Vogue, her pro-fur editorials and her refusal to run paid advertisements from animal rights organizations. Undeterred, she continues to use fur in photo spreads, saying there's always a way to wear it. Nobody was wearing fur until she put it on the cover in the early 1990s. She ignited the entire industry. Though am not with her in this fur issue, but the way she deal with it was caught my attention from the beginning. She won my respect on how grace and classy she was on responding to this matter.

As a girl, I looked up to her as my fashion guru, all the long way until I saw her committed such a shameful mistake that hard for me to even digested it. So disappointed. Even me never wear the same outfit twice in any public appearance though am not a fashion icon whatsoever. I mean, any girl would consider that as a felony and deserves humiliations. I remember my ex-boyfriend and I used to argued whenever we got invited to some kind of occasions and I was like freaking out about what should I wear and he would like, "Darling, you've got the biggest wardrobe in the entire planet full of nice clothes, what are you talking about?" I then would like, "Yeah, but I wore them all already! Hello?" Men...they all are so typical, what they know anyway? My two rules of fashion are 'to not wearing the same outfit twice' and 'to not wearing any similar outfit with others in one occasion.' I, personally, consider those as unforgivable crimes. That is why I opened a shop at first place, so I can have the whole candy shop for myself whenever I need it and avoid the humiliation. Ha!

Okay, back to the extraordinary Ms. Wintour, as I said before, through the years she has come to be regarded as one of the most powerful people in fashion, setting trends and anointing new designers. She has often been described as a perfectionist who routinely makes impossible, arbitrary demands of subordinates: "kitchen scissors at work", in the words of one commentator. Because of her position, her fashion statements often closely scrutinized and imitated and her influence extends outside fashion. After her former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger, wrote the 2003 best selling roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, later made into a successful film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a fashion editor widely believed to be based on her, she often described as emotionally distant. She was never tolerate flaws. So yeah, now I hope you guys can see where did my disappointment come from. For someone like her, it was so unforgivable and deserved humiliations. Even though the sin had proved to us that she was a human afterward and it was kind of relieving to know that, but still, shame on you, Anna! Shame on you!

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He’s All Dressed Up For Glamour And Rock N Roll

What is your first notice on a guy? His look? His attitude? Well, for me is his appearance. One night, when I had a dinner with my dear friends, there was a guy who was sat on a table right in front of ours and my friend whispered on my ear that time that there was a cute guy in the restaurant, and I knew right away who was she talking about. So yeah, I was like, you were talking about the guy in black shirt, right? She nodded her head. Yeah, for me and my friends, we were always notice someone’s appearance first. No matter how cute he was, but if he dressed like a red neck, then yeah, thanks but no thanks.
The first time I saw Adam Lambert on his audition for American Idol, I was noticed his appearance on that spot. He was like someone who can wear anything, even though on that audition, he was only wearing a t-shirt and dark jeans, but he looked like a rock star already. So yeah, when he dressed up with his quirky style yet so glamour and rock and roll, I was knew from that point that he was my man from top to bottom. Despite on how gay he looked during his performances, he was just so amazingly dressed to perfection. And his edgy glam and vamp style was definitely caught my attention.
I knew a guy who owns a what so called t-shirt empire, that’s what my friends said, who sometime dressed so manly yet so dressy that makes him sometime looks like a gay guy but I can assure you that he wasn’t. Yeah, he was my ex, and despite on how my friends were always make a joke about how he dressed, but I have to admitted that actually I took noticed on him because of his appearance. And my man at the moment is a well-dressed man who was never leave house only with shorts and flip flop ever. My man knew how to dressed up properly in every occasion since he used to worked at a well-known fashion brand when he was young. So yeah, that is probably what made me noticed him at the first place, hah!
I can understand if some men don’t feel comfortable showing their dandy side of style as it can ruins their macho wall of barrier which they were always proud of. But yeah, as for me, as long as it still under control, I would definitely choose a nice dressed up guy rather than a sloppy t-shirt wearing kind of guy. With no doubt what so ever!
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My Rules For Fashion Confidence

Girls supposed to have their own rules on fashion and how to look good, not by any standard but themselves. One standard could be suited a person but doesn’t mean that it has to be suited others. As for me, I have my own description on what’s good and what’s not, and it doesn’t have to be follow by anyone but me. So yeah, here are my rules for fashion confidence :
1. Ban Tracksuits From Your Life
I’ve always love clothes, but my taste has completely change as I’ve got older. When I was a teenager, I was influenced by my friends, so I wore jeans and t-shirt - I was like a tomboy girl but I actually wasn’t. But one thing for sure, I was never get the idea of wearing tracksuits everywhere I go like those hip hop moguls do, I just don’t. I’ll only ever put my tracksuit on whenever I fly long distance or when I go to the gym. I never even put it on at home, not even when I got ill. Beside, you can’t wear heels with them, duh! So yeah, tracksuits are only for athletes and hip hop communities.
2. Embrace Your Skin Colour
I’ve recently started loving being this tan - it’s classy instead of the Michael Jackson’s disaster story of trying to be white - I used to be! Well, being Asian you will understand why I used to obsessed with white skin. Everyone here thought that white skin equals beauty and rich. So yeah, don’t blame me for that, it was just the way of people thinking here was kind of brainwashed mine. But living in the island such as Bali has change my way of thinking. Now, I really love my skin colour and don’t want to change anything from it. Nor that I will stay out in the sun to make it even more tan either, but I just love my skin colour whatever that is.
3. Experiment, Experiment, Experiment
I really got into fashion since I was a teenager when I started make my own designs of clothes and showed them to my friends to see their reactions, and yeah, it went very well. But it was two years ago when I started my own boutique, then I really took it seriously and then I’ve experimented a lot. I don’t mind looking a little bit quirky - so long as I still looking feminine - because that is my trade mark look which is feminine. It is important to me to try out most things so I can see and decided what’s good and what’s not, not just for me but also for my clients.
4. You’ll Know You’re In The Right Outfit If It Makes You Want To Dance
I always love the way an outfit can make you feel - it’s a form of expression and personality. I’ll often trying on different things before I go out at night with the music on and dance around my bedroom. If I really like what I wear, it’ll show on the way I dance to the music. Some people might find this ridiculous, but that’s just the way I am.
5. A New Hair Colour Opens A World Of Possibilities
I love my dark hair colour because it really embrace my skin colour very nicely. It feels like having an accessory on my head, but sometime when I got bored, I try a softer colour. But whenever you dye your hair, just be careful not to change it too far from your natural colour as it can makes you look like a clown. Once in a while you can try something eccentric just to steal the spotlight, but remember to stay in your natural colour range so that you can steal the spotlight gracefully without embarrassing yourself.
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