Peeps!! I’ve put up my Christmas tree for the year 2009 already!!! Have u guys done the same too ???

U know how technologies are evolving like 24/7, Christmas trees these days don’t require any decors @ all….like absolutely non…..all u need is a tree, and everything else comes with it. See the picture above ?? All the lights have been implemented as fiber optics into the tree leaves…..and they even comes with a BIG star that shines and changes color as the rest of the tree does.

And the lights even come with different “dance moves” … ..it glitters slowly….and then real fast…and real real fast…and it slows down again…..if i were to switch off all the lights in the house…..my neighbor might think that I’m having a disco party in the house!!!!

It’s that innovative…..

All i need now……is some pressie underneath the tree……any sponsors ??? kekeke

Well, just a short update people……as i’ll be traveling pretty soon….this weekend is all about packing and stuff…and I’m so exhausted!!! Thinking to check through the list of things that i need to bring…is already giving me headache…

And where am i going to ???

Answer will be reveal soon.

Be sure to stay tuned!

The priority of my favorite pass-time goes like this,

1) Shopping (which includes clothing, shoes, accessories & toiletries! )

2) Internet shopping ( hehehe….as if  item no. 2 is so different from item no.1 !! Oh yes, there is…..i just need to click click click and I’ll get my stuff in a couple of days time, without having me to drive all the way to a place, especially under this super duper crazy hot weather.)

2) Browse the web

3)Catch a movie

4)If friends were not available, i love to crouch onto d sofa and read my favorite gossip magazines!

5)When things start to get really boring, i will drag my PS3 out and continue with where i left off.

There you go, my favorite pass-time from 1-5 …..

So today, I’ve accomplished Item no.1 in a local boutique  and see what I’ve found!

These are the new arrivals, i haven’t bought any of them, because i don’t know which one to buy!!! Well, why don’t you guys decide for me ??

Item no. 1

One piece  with denim inspired color.

Denim is such an ” IN” thing right now, if you were about to go for your weekly, monthly, or yearly shopping, make sure to include DENIM or DENIM inspired item into your shopping bag!! It’s all about Denim Denim & more Denim!!

Item no. 2

Another denim inspired one piece!!

With a slight different cutting ……love the belt and the neckline!

Item no. 3

Gar rage worker inspired one piece trouser with attached zebra tube top ( I made all these terms up! )

This piece is so easy and comfy to wear!!! Urrgghh….it’s getting harder and harder to decide…i might just grab all of them!!

Item no. 4

The floral one piece

Can be wear as casual or formal. All i need is a belt and a high heel & i can see myself @ some dogie wedding dinner!! Ha!

Item no. 5

Draped 2 tone one piece

The material to this one piece is SOooooo comfy!! The fabric is sort of cooling, compare to others. A great choice for the fuming hot weather we have now!!

Item no. 6

How much money you owe me look

Hehehe…So sorry about the pose though….as i’m really fond of this black one piece, i just wanna try out different poses to see how versatile it is !!

Here’s another shot with me posing more ” decently” ….

Why do i think i stand like a pecan right here? Oh, notice the half knee checkered pants?? Those are a gem as well !! Super comfy !

Item no. 7

The ” sort of ” punk look

Did you notice the legging ? These are so hot!! And by the way, I’ve already got them….yes it’s in my closet already!! Didn’t get the top one piece though….not sure if i will wear them often though…..mmmpphhh….

Item no. 8

Ancient Greece inspired draped evening one piece dress

I deliberately paired it with the hard rock legging from Item no. 7, wanna see how is the contrast…..guess it didn’t work out very well!! Oh well…..not sure about the dress though, i don’t really like the silver buckle in the middle of the dress.

Mmmppph…..hard decision to make!!

Which one should i get?? I don’t really need the evening gown….i mean besides going to dogie weddings…there aren’t many “classy” functions here anyway…..

Decision…decisions!!!

Once upon a time, a handsomely young Prince was out searching for his true love. He is so sick of the life he is having in the huge castle, and he thinks it’s time for him to go out and find a life of  his own.

So, he grabbed all the stuff he needed on his journey, jumped onto his horse and sets off for the search of  his true love!

The journey was however long and winding. The Prince never thought life outside the castle could be so difficult. When he decided to give up the idea of looking for the love of his life and headed back to his castle, he realised he had lost his way. 

And the only thing he could do was to keep on going.

Finally, after 1 month of long journey, he reached a town called — Fullofgorgeouschick valley.  He almost couldn’t believe his eyes!!! One month long of endless journey finally became fruitful! But 1st, he needed to find an Inn, get himself all cleaned up, ready for his full appearance in Fullofgeorgeouschick valley! 

So the all cleaned up handsome Prince is ready to make his way into the valley, just before that he thought he would like to leave his room key @ the counter. Upon reaching the counter, he almost fell onto his knee! For once in his life, he had never seen a girl that’s so gorgeous and beautiful!  He had his eyes fixed on her until the sunset fell upon the town, only then he came to realise the reason he was there is to hand her his room key. But that is not important anymore!!! He was damn sure he had found the love of his life!!

He then sprung out of the Inn, travelling full speed to find the nearest florist ! And he found one florist called– shewilldefinitelyfellforyou florist. To his surprise, he has never seen such beautiful flowers ever before in his life!! That made him realised he should have left the castle a long long time ago knowing the outside world is such a wonderful place!  He strolled around the florist a bit, and finally settled for a bouquet of lilac colour rose! Satisfied, he then rode back to the Inn, got down from his horse, brushed his hair and tidy himself a bit, walked towards the counter with the most gentlemen like gesture you could ever imagined.

Prince : ” I would like to present this bouquet of roses to the most gorgeous lady in the world! “

The gorgeous lady almost couldn’t believe her eyes! Lilac roses!! That would be the most expensive roses in town! Upon raising her head, came to her surprise….a man of her dream is standing in front of her! A dream that she kept having since childhood was that one day, she will meet a gorgeous man that has got the feature exactly like the man she is staring @ right now!  Tears filled her eyes, she accepted the bouquet with a heart full of love.

Prince : ” Would you like to go out with me?”

Lady: ” YES! YES! I would love to! “

And so their love story began.

Both of them were so in love that they decided to tie the knot in just a period of 3 weeks!  The day had finally came for the prince to bring his wife to be, back to the castle to meet the King and the Queen! Just before heading back to the castle, the lady has got something to tell the Prince.

” My love, I’m afraid i haven’t been totally honest with you.”

Prince : ” What do you mean? “

“I’m…………I’m……….I’M ACTUALLY A FROG!”

Prince : ” Look love, this is not a time to have a joke like this, we should get going. “

” No love! I’m really a frog! 10 years ago, there was a witch who likes to catch us frogs and cast a spell on us! making us turn into gorgeous ladies in order to lure all the rich guys out there! Once we found one, we shall bring the guy back to her and she will turn the guys into a frog and use them as  ransom! So please, please leave without me! I am the last frog to be accomplishing the mission, because i really enjoy being a human and being able to fall in love just like any other humans do! But once i travel into the woods, the witch will be able to sense me! She was the one who brought you to this valley! So please! please leave without me! 

Prince : ” No! I will not leave without you! I will find a different route back to the castle! No matter what, we have to get married!! I love you too much!” 

Not wanting to lose her man, the lady decided to go against her fate, whatever turns out she is deem to accept.

The Prince succeeded in finding a different route back  to the Castle! They met up with the King & Queen, and they were both really happy upon hearing their son is getting married to a gorgeous and pretty lady! They continue their joy onto the dining table. All of them were laughing happily and joyfully, and the King & Queen never blamed their son from leaving the castle. 

So dinner’s been served. When they open the lid to their dinner plate, they were all shocked!!!! Live frogs are jumping and squeaking from their plates!!!

Suddenly the King & Queen turned into 2 evil witches!!!

“The King & Queen are the frogs that jumped out from your plates just then!!! WA HA HA HA HA! WA HA HA HA!” Pointing to the gorgeous lady;  “HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME! HOW DARE YOU!! FOR THAT I SHALL TURN YOU BOTH INTO FROGS!  AND WE SHALL BE THE KING & QUEEN!!!! WA HA HA HA HA! WA HA HA HA!”

And so, the poor Prince and Princess to be under the spell of the witch, turned into frogs!!! But come to think of it, it wasn’t that bad after all, even though they’ve been turned into frogs, but they have been granted longevity!! It’s just that, they have to be stuck onto my feet for the time being.

That was a pretty long description for a shoe doesn’t it ??? HOHOHO

Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed my lame story telling!!!!

Have a great day!

So, the correct pronunciation for Christian Lacroix?

is   CHRISTIAN LA-CUA!

Despite having to embarrassed myself with the correct pronunciation while queuing up to get the entry tickets @ the Singapore National Museum, it turns out it was actually a free entry exhibition! Hurray!

When it comes to exhibition, i tend to look out for fashion exhibitions, rather than something to do with interior, which by right should be my priority and something i constantly upgrade myself with. But sadly, that wasn’t the case. I sometimes think that the reason i became an Interior Designer is because i didn’t get to be a Fashion Designer. Make sense? You see, there’s a Design faculty in my Uni that caters for only design subjects. For example, Fashion Design, Industrial Design, Visual Design and of course Interior Design. And initially i filled up my 1st course to be Fashion Design and followed by Interior. Why did i end up with Interior? Because i didn’t study hard enough to get into Fashion! Now it all make sense right??  For that reason, I’m trying to make up to myself by trying to squeeze into Fashion exhibitions pretending to be one!! Tell me is that pathetic or what?

Anyway, enough of the itsy bitsy of my dark historical part.

So who is Christian Lacroix?

I 1st came to know him is when i bought my 1st Evian limited edition bottle in 2007. You can see how the bottle looks like here. Besides knowing him as a fashion designer, there’s really nothing much for me to know more about him until this exhibition.

I’m not saying once i walked into the exhibition hall, i immediately felt like I’ve known him for  years…..it was his works that made me understood what a great designer he  is.

can you read what it says??

I guess not…..well, here’s a subtracted version of what’s written above…….

Born in 1951 in Arles, France, Christian Lacroix spent his childhood between the Carmargue beaches and the Alpilles pine forests, amongst the Gallo-Roman ruins and the remnants of the World War II bombings. As a boy, he attended bullfighting events and theater or opera festivals, immersed in both Provertical and Gyrpsy traditions, and enjoying musuem paintings and attic books.

In 1969, he studied Art History @ the University of Montpellier, and continued his studies in Paris @ both the Sorbonne and the Ecole du Louvre in 1973, with the ambition to become a musuem curator. It was in paris that he met those who would influence his destiny : Francoise, his wife to be who introduced him to the secrets of Paris and encouraged him to draw; Jean-Jacques Picart, press attache and advisor to serveral designers and Haute Couture Houses, who found him a job @ Hermes ( !!! wow….it would be a dream to be able to work in Hermes! and one thing to note: i have yet to own a Hermes bag!!) in 1978, then with Guy Paulin in 1980. In 1981, he began working @ the Jean Paton House and was awarded in 1986 with the De d’ Or award.

In 1986, Jean-Lue Tardien, then the director of the Maison de la culture in Nantles, commissioned him to design the costumes of the Chantecler production. In the following year, the Christian Lacroix House was launched with its first Haute Couture collection presented in July of the same year. By January 1988, he was given a second De d’ Or award. Throughout his career, Christian Lacroix has been very much involved in costume design work for the stage, winning twice the best costumier award, the Moliere for Phedre and Cyrano de Bergerac.

( there were a lot of aprostrophy S on some of the French names, and i wasn’t able to do it on my computer, so my apology if some elements on the French words are missing!)

So, by winning so many costume awards, no wonder i was amazed by his collections!

When i walked into the exhibition hall, the 1st thing i saw were his amazing costume sketches!!! Seeing a designer’s sketches to me is like seeing the inner most piece of  his heart, because to a designer, the most important element to them is not the end product, it’s actually their initial sketches, that’s where all the best elements are!!! Believe it or not!!

Here are some of his precious and amazingly beautiful sketches!!

I’m not going to differentiate these drawings into different categories, because there are too many….and i didn’t get to remember all the names of the collection so……sorry!

If I’m not wrong, these sketches are actually from his Cendrillon 1986 collection. Which is about Cinderella!!

This one if I’m not mistaken, should be from the Othelo 1995 collection.

And these are from the L’As-Tu revue 1991, Nutcracker 1992, Les Anges Ternis 1987 and Vienna Bonbons Waltz 1998 collection.

And to put all these sketches into real clothings?

There’s actually a net covering all the display items, so in-case you are wondering what’s wrong with my photos, there’s basically nothing wrong. Hehehehe

And also, i saw a lot of photographers there taking photos with their SLR camera, they posed so professionally, as if they can get a great picture without the net!! Pity them really…..

Nice blooming red dress!!!

can you imagine me in this dress??

I’m guessing this is the Othelo 1995 collection from the sketches to the real thing.

Does this collection delight you?? If not, look @ the one below…….i was so happy when i saw there are small little clothes flying on the ceiling!!!

Did you see the ballerina inspired dresses flying on top?? I stood there for like 10 minutes just to look @ them!!! I don’t know why, it just reminds me of the Peter Pan or the ET ride in Disneyland!!! Hahaha…..

Another view!!! I so love this part of the exhibition!!!

Another one!!!! Sorry guys, please allow me to splurge my love on these dresses!!!

Okay, so after having to indulge in the little dresses, i start to have a look @ what they have on the ground….

As you can see the photo is not very clear, because the dress is standing on a rotating plate, that is why it’s very hard to capture it!!! ( Or maybe because I’m not the ones with the SLRsssss!!!)

I love the puffing sleeves & the neck details of this dress!!

It wasn’t a big exhibition hall & i was expecting more actually, it’s basically a walk of one round and that’s about it. But having said that, i actually enjoyed the present of every pieces of clothes there! The designs were amazing!!! And i was blown away. Christian Lacroix, i will be looking out for your  products from now on!!

And before i walked out of the exhibition hall, there’s still a display of some of his collection, and this collection is particularly appealing to me!! I think the designs are unique & current!!

YEAH! It was indeed a great exhibition!! Can’t wait  for another one!!!

So guys, what do you think of this exhibition?

Yupe, i’m still in our neighbouring country, thinking i haven’t shop enough….but the truth is the truth. Knowing i’ve almost spent all my money…..and the timing is just about right!! Will be going back to hometown tomorrow and continue my “pagan” legacy…..hohoho……sorry….i was just joking….

Anyway, gonna show you guys some of the clothes i bought, well….not all of them…..but….almost all of them actually……teehee!! Ladies, what’s in now??

1) The high-waist skirt is still hot and running…..

I love the colour!!! Pink!! Pinky!!

2) And then we have the what? Boyfriend Jeans!!! Man it’s so hot now!!! Every ladies must go get 1 !!!

The more torned the jeans is, the BETTER!!!! I wasn’t sure if the top goes well with the jeans though….and clearly that was a matching error!!! Eh Hem…….but it still looks good though!!! hohoho

3) And the boyfriend jeans with a slightly more correct matching……

Yeah work it baby! work it!!

Go get the boyfriend jeans now girls!!!!

And sensei Chloe is gonna shop for more!!!! Hohohoho

p.s.wanna know where i got these clothes from?? write and ask!!  cos i won’t want to do free advertising!! Teehee!!