Because I really Should Update

This blog is definitely past due. So my collection is due on Tuesday. Finally got it done, its got pants, skirt, jacket, and a blouse. However, the blouse doesn't seem to match the others. Maybe that's my style though!! Hopefully I won't get graded down.
I will upload pics SOON! Then I got a collection portfolio due. SIGH.

Spring break I will clean out my closet and try to sell some at Cross Roads or Wasteland, two of my favorite Vintage stores. One's a little overpriced. I get most of my goods at thrift stores like Goodwill (huntin...hahaah), some at yard sales, and of course my beloved SAMPLE SALES at Calmart or New Mart in downtown LA. I got a military jacket for 10 bucks, then at Salvation Army I got a cool Indian style dress with birds flying down the side for 3 bucks. YES, three freaken bucks.

Alas, the fashion world can get tiring, very tiring at times. FAKE too.

I have gotten used to red lipstick- for some reason, it makes me feel like a wholnother person. I can strut down in a wholnother way. I feel maybe 5 years older and a lot more confident. It really takes some guts to wear bright red. But once you got a hang of it- you feel like everyones staring at you. But you just don't care.

I was thinking of selling my clothes and giving the money to charity- we'll see how that works out~

Here's a shot I took in Japan- in the farms where we picked peas.

Making it from scratch

From nothing to finished!

For Creative Draping class, we were told to create a garment with a knot, any kind. So with the "too bright" pink fabric (as my instructor noted), I started draping and cutting away even though I really should have used muslin and drafted a pattern first.

That is, however, besides the point. I had a vision, like Picasso with abstractions in his head. And I dove for it. Even if it meant finding a piece of fabric from my closet that I saved 3 years ago, knowing that one day, yes one day, I would use it for something cool.

It is at the moment I sit back and soak in my artwork- that I can reconfirm this fact.

Yes, Fashion is my passion- as corny as it sounds.

I don't want to live my whole life earning money, no I want to love what I'm doing, so I don't have to "work" a day in my life. And of course, I do it for my Creator. The only one Who can sustain me and give me a little boost of energy when the 10 hours of sewing is wearing off. By the way, sewing is NOT my passion- designing is. So is giving people makeovers.

Alas! and with lots of love!

Fashion that Screams

I've been researching many fashion blogs and sites. I would say more specifically Asian fashion (Japanese, Taiwanese mostly). What do you know, but I stumble upon a Taiwanese brand called "Screaming". The colors scream, a bright pink, and alas it belongs on my desktop. I am afraid to say American fashion is too afraid to scream. Some people claim fashion is vain, yes at times, but when treated properly, fashion is a reflection of the society and has deep implications. It is also art. When you go to Moca or Norton Simon, you don't say art is vain. Whether you know it or not, fashion is even the plainest t-shirt. Fashion is a pair of boxers, flip- flops, dollar store sunglasses, or a granny's dress. Fashion is everywhere. It is the way one combs his hair. Is fashion subjective? That is not for me to answer. But I will anyways, fashion comes and goes, plaid may be ugly one season, trendy the next. My philosophy, wear what you want to, who cares? Just don't flash me with an amusement park full of skin, that's one thing I am a fervent rejecter of.

I'm glad you saved me from heartache

Though many times my tears became an ocean
Surrounding me
It swallowed me whole
The clouds looming above me
But I never sank
I just caught on to the hand
that continues to catch me

Now I understand.

Those waters I waded in
That I swam across
got me to the place you
wanted me to be.

It all makes sense.

Thank you for those tears.

R.L.'s Designs

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So I finally decided to showcase some of my designs that I
1. hand draped
2. created patterns for
3. cut and sewed
Of course they should be on Size 8 women mannequins, except the one I have, picked up outside some random moving person's house, is a kid size mannequin. Sooooooo...to see the real thing, you have to see ME wear it. Of course, all my designs are clothes I would wear. Any feedback on what you would actually wear (if you're a girl), unless guys...you would wear these too, this I doubt.

Now when I look at magazines or stores, I don't think, man I wanna buy this, I think more like, man how did they construct this. This isn't that hard to make.

Robert Polidori

Realization/ artist epiphany- if artists didn't exist there would be nothing to travel for, this includes God's art and the art humans create. Isn't that weird? If we went on vacation to Rome, Italy, France, le louvre wouldn't be there, buildings wouldn't be there, they were all created by artisans, architects. So I found this Robert Polidori, an amazing artist, French Canadian who creates these amazing photographs that makes you THINK. To me there seems to be an extent of beauty in the chaos, the mess of this world. A certain loneliness, shadowed by the unexpected colors and composition. Amazing, really.

The buildings we create, humanity in general is decaying, but the light that transforms the dilapidation transcends all thought or logic. That is how I see it. Beauty amidst chaos. Beauty amidst ugliness. Jesus shines His light amidst the sinful world.

Art cannot be created without a source of light, sure some pieces can be dark, but without light nothing can be shown. It is a rather interesting concept. In fact, it'll be a pitch black photograph, or a black paper, but without light contrast is nonexistent. So let Jesus be a light unto your path.

God created kids, adults are too dull.

Kids, one of the most beautiful creations ever, their innocence, their cuteness, their cheerfulness, their energy, their boldness. Isn't God amazing!? Man, these kids are soooooooooooo infinitely cute! Adults should learn from kids and their simple faith.