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design

LVMH x Parsons = my first foray as a designer into new york fashion week!

26 February 2010

oh hello hello hello, remember me? i must have fallen off your blog radar a super long time ago with my lack of consistent postings. but i really have good reason! for the last few months, i have been completely absorbed – mind, body and soul – into this project that has really been the [...]

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thesis collection: sketching, fabric choices, and final edits

23 October 2009

after all that thinking and narrowing down of the direction and inspirations i wanted to take with my thesis collection and also my market and customer, my next step was the most painful one. doing sketches and then editing them.
design croquis
well, sketches, or croquis as we call them, aren’t so bad. croquis are just different [...]

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thesis collection: my market and thesis statement

22 October 2009

my next step was to think about my customer market, and also write my thesis statement. determining and narrowing down on a market is really important – knowing who my customer is will determine everything – what they are looking for when shopping for clothing, how much they are willing to spend, if they are [...]

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thesis collection: how i began my design process

21 October 2009

the beginning of a design process is always tricky, and it gets even trickier when this particular collection is going to define one’s entire fashion education. i graduated in 2007 from the bunka fashion college in tokyo, japan, and transferred here to parsons in new york, where i will finally be done with my studies [...]

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independent fashion bloggers dress-up soirée

20 September 2009

on monday night, i attended the independent fashion bloggers’ dress up soirée held downtown, in conjunction with mercedes-benz fashion week. i had gone to the first dress-up soirée that was held earlier this year and had tons of fun, so i knew that even though i could not attend many shows because of my school [...]

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mercedes-benz fashion week s/s 2010: today’s get-up 11sep09

13 September 2009

it was an awful friday. first of all it was september 11th. then there was the torrential rain. add seriously strong blasts of wind to the equation and you’re left with one disgusting island called manhattan, where the streets are packed, sirens are going off, the cars aren’t moving an inch and every bad-tempered driver [...]

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