Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013

Anyone else excited for this year's runway show? I would love to watch this in person one day because it is one of the things that I love to do around Christmas time. It get's me in a very 'Christmasy' mood. A couple of years ago at a Christmas party I even made all my friends watch it. I'm that crazy about it. Pretty girls & sexy lingerie...what's not to love! It's always so magical and playful and tickles my fantasies. 

Unfortunately this year Miranda Kerr won't be in the show due to another work commitment...BUMMER because she's one of my favourites. She is so darn cute!

And who is to don the Fantasy Bra this year? The South African beauty: Candice Swanepoel. The "Royal Fantasy Bra", designed by jeweler Mouawad, is valued at $10 million with over 4,200 precious stones mixed of diamonds, rubies and yellow sapphires set in 18 karat gold. It even includes a 52 karat pear-shaped ruby dangling in the center of the bra! Crazy... I honestly wonder how heavy that bra is. I love how girly and pretty it looks with the flowers and bow detail. It is quite exquisite and gorgeous.

What are your thoughts? Are you a fan of Victoria's Secret fashion shows? 

Stuart Weitzman Fall 2013

Flawless, iconic Kate Moss strutting in some Stuart Weitzman boots? Exquisite! I'm in love.

Personally, I love the first three because I have a slight obsession with over the knee and thigh high boots. Kate Moss looks absolutely stunning but that's no surprise there. Leave me a comment and let me know which ones you like.

Oscar de la Renta's Snow White

Oh how I'd give to see this in real life.

With the busyness of school, work, life or whatever you have to do, I hope everyone's been able to find a wicked costume for Halloween. 

Bisous!

Ombre Saturday

How was my fellow Canadian's long weekends? Hope it was safe and full of fun. 

This past Saturday Lance and I had a casual day down at 17th Ave just walking around for a bit before we had dinner with my family. We actually had nothing planned for the weekend because Lance worked overnight on Friday and Saturday. It was really easy going as I was suffering from pretty bad migraines over the last few days.

We had the pleasure in checking out the donuts at Modern Jelly. They have quite interesting flavors and I liked the fruity ones. They were ridiculously HUGE. It was an interesting experience even though donuts aren't my thing. If you live in Calgary you guys should try it out at least once. The pretty fuchsia pink accents are what drew me in to the place. Has anyone else tried it? What are your thoughts? I believe they have a store in Toronto as well. 

I recently bought this skirt in a sale at Forever 21 and I love the purple ombre look. The flowy top layer totally sealed the deal for me because it reminded me of the flowy dance skirts and the movement of this skirt is beautiful. I paired it with a simple loose white tee with a gold scallop necklace.

 

My shoes are Tell Me by Kenneth Cole Reaction. SUUUUPER comfy wedges. I love the faux snake skin detailing at the back and the ankle straps are convenient for me because the shoes doesn't fall off my feet. The rubber soles grip the floor so I don't feel like I'm tripping. Here's another picture of them.

 

 Hope everyone has a lovely week ahead!

My Chuck Taylors

Hello world!

What do you think of our matching shoes? Tacky? Muahahahhaa. I love it because it's kind of subtle and not super matchy like some Asian couples. 

Bwahahahaha.

I love my Chucks. The colour is just so beautiful, vibrant, and out there! Lance always wanted me to get a pair of Converse shoes but I told him I was waiting on a very special colour to pop up. I wanted something different, not the usual black, white, or blue. I would have settled for a pastel colored one only. I regret not buying a pair of metallic gold chucks that I found an at outlet store in Seattle years ago. SO SAD.

I had seen a pair of these shoes online once but that was months ago before our Vegas trip. I tried looking for them when we were there, except there were none... I only found a pair of these in a men's size 13 at the north outlet mall for sale. I was super sad. I was going to buy a pink pair from a normal store but decided to hold out. Luckily on our last day we decided to go to the south outlet mall and I found these bad boys... the very last ones!!! In my size!!! For sale!! I totally left Vegas feeling very satisfied. They were under $30 USD, a very awesome price for a pair of high tops. I was extremely lucky to have found these in Vegas. 

Fairy Peacock Dress

Bonsoir mes amours.

Here are some shots of my outfit that I bought from Singapore back in November. I love the material it's so light, flow-y and satin-like. I adore the pattern because it's just like a peacock and it's ever so fairy like. I kind of feel like Tinkerbell.  I matched it with a t-shirt cardigan for that lightweight easy breezy cover up. Can you believe it? I bought this dress for $10 SGD. Amazing. I miss shopping in Singapore. 

Oh, and I had total perfect hair that day!

The Launch of Viginti et Ignotum 2013

Recently, I was invited to the launch party of Viginiti et Ignotum at the Art Gallery of Calgary. I was invited to this event by the creator and owner of Veti Brand, Genevieve Abaya. I met her during high school many years ago and have always thought she was super adorable and admired her determination in school.

From the website, "Viginti et Ignotum is Latin for Twenty & Unknown;  a call to bringing a difference through society at a point in your life when you've just exited the teens and entered into adulthood."

According to Genevieve, the Veti Brand springboards young adults and rising businesses into the community in personal and professional areas via unique consultation services, fashion and artistic merchandise aimed at the consumer.

It began because she wanted to find a way to give back to the international community through the launch of the 20/20 Tee Concept. For every major city that they are in, the Veti Brand uses local artists and local businesses to create their designs for their t-shirts for that year. For every t-shirt sold, 20% will be given back to a local non-profit organization. 

This year they have teamed up with Dave "Davey Gravey" Lieske creating the Onward 2013 t-shirts. The pictures on his shirt display how Lieske views and experiences Calgary. Currently there are two designs launched on their website: the Collage style and Grid style. They are priced at $20 each. I did not manage to grab pictures of their shirts at the event but here's the pictures taken off their website. I will link underneath the pictures of the t-shirts where you can order them. For their current concept, 20% of each shirt will be donated to the Art Gallery of Calgary for their future projects and funding of young artists. 

Click here for the "Collage" style of the Onward 2013 Tee

Click here for the "Grid" style of the Onward 2013 Tee

The Veti Brand launch party was held on Friday, April 26, 2013. Since it was held in the Art Gallery of Calgary, attendees were able to walk through the three floors that was opened then to view the Vanity Fair Exhibition by Craig Le Blanc. The art exhibit was a great pleasure to view; Lance and I were saying how we would love to come to these exhibits in the future in order to support local artists but also view some great contemporary art

This is possibly the my most favourite piece by Craig Le Blanc because my gamer tag has always been PinkRevolver so when Lance pointed this out to me, I was over the moon! Currently my gamer tag for League of Legends is BananaRevolver because someone else took it. Darn! D=< 

But don't you think BananaRevolver is much more hilarious? Bahahaha. 

Bang bang! I was wearing a FXXI basic long white sleeve top and a red vintage Christian Dior woolen skirt that night. Paired with my yellow loafers bought from a market in Singapore, a wide-tiered golden Aldo necklace and I was carrying the Louis Vuitton Saumur 35.

This was Lance's favourite piece. He's loves turtles especially baby ones. His current background on his computer is a baby turtle swimming in the ocean. Lol.

This one really tears the heart strings because I used to tell Lance this when we got into fights. Fortunately I learned that this was immature and not the way to solve fights 

Hello floating chairs!

They had a couple of Calgary DJs playing that night. Here is one of the DJs on the bottom floor that I quite enjoyed. He was spinning a lot of dance-pop music.

Here is the shopping room which hosted local vendors. Unfortunately I am quite broke so there was no spending there. =(

This is one of the displays of their t-shirts when you first walk into the art gallery. 

I like how they're rolled up like a scroll. 

 Gift bag from the Veti Brand launch with yummy treats and coupons in it. 

Free shirt from the event. I made Lance model this one. 

Silly's shirt is all crumpled, as you can see he's already been wearing it. 

There was a fashion show during the launch party that displayed some beautiful dresses by Mark Abenir. I regret not taking more pictures of the opening dress. The back was super gorgeous with multiple black strings criss-crossing. The third dress was the best in my eyes. I would totally wear this if I was back in high school for the graduation dinner. The details of this dress was exquisite. The black lace, the back and feathers - beautiful. 

Overall I really enjoyed myself at this event. Gen was really able to bring together a wide variety of artistic mediums in fashion, art, music, and good old human interaction to create a atmosphere of inspiration; I guess if you were to look back at it, this would be a great example as to what the Veti brand can provide in the future. It was a night needed out as a break from exams. I am quite surprised with the turnout of people at the event and am quite proud of Gen! Congratulations on the launch of the Veti Brand and I wish you all the best in your success. I can't wait to see this expand and take the world by storm.

Please check out the Veti Brand at http://www.vetibrand.com/. 
You can follow them on twitter @vetibrand.