dream, that's the thing to do

neverland

 and middle earth

 and oz:

 and wonderland:

digitalization

Iris Van Herpen: It’s a mix of everything. It’s important to work round the body, and my work is about fabric, shape and new techniques. I used a lot of fabrics commonly used in architecture –I like to bring new techniques into fashion, because otherwise I cannot breathe nor continue creating.

dazedditigal

zanzan

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moments like these don't come so easily to you do they?

mammals

(location : American Museum of Natural History)

at home with Anna Sui

Last Friday, as a part of Metropolitan Museum of Art's lecture series, Anna Sui discussed her collection as well as how she dresses her new Manhattan abode. I wish I could come but I was in the office (..as an intern at Sui's Corp.) and a friend of mine fill me in with some brilliant stuffs.

Sui's collection of busts by Gemma Taccogna displayed in the study alongside furniture painted glossy black; the walls are covered in a chinoiserie paper, antiqued mirror and a taxidermy peacock. 

When it came to furnishing the apartment, she was influenced by two American style divas—cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein and interior decorator Dorothy Draper. The result is a magnificently mixed-up but strangely calming atmosphere that’s signature Sui. She had always been drawn to the furniture in Rubinstein’s Manhattan apartment, especially the sinuous, extravagantly carved sofas and chairs made by John Henry Belter, a Victorian cabinetmaker.

“I decorate like I do a collection, putting the familiar with the kooky,” says the designer, who dreams of creating a line of wallpapers and fabrics in her inimitable style. “I just like mixing up things I’m interested in.”

All in all it’s an inspired mingling of extravagant furniture, chinoiserie wallpaper, and vintage doodads whose sum-total flamboyance recalls the do-it-yourself glamour of the 1970s. “With two apartments, I can have dinner downstairs and drinks and dessert upstairs.” -Elle Decor

twenty one one

This year, I hope you create a story that you love. I hope you make something beautiful and take great risks. I hope you dare yourself to do brave things. I hope you fall in love - with art or a person or God. I hope you discover the miracle of faith and when life breaks you, I hope you come out brand new and beautiful. I hope you have the courage to take the weak things and amplify them until your life overflows with only the good stuff. I hope you see the world and meet interesting people but above all, I hope you have an absolutely passionate love affair with life.

NYC so far