bib came to nyc!

29 November 2009
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my sister, bib, came over to new york for a couple of weeks. it was her first american trip, and it was great but sucked at the same time coz i hardly had time to spend with her! she came with a group of her friends, and they went around sight-seeing while i was in [...]

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today’s get-up 29oct09

30 October 2009
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you know, when h&m and comme des garcons announced their collaboration quite a little while ago, i think i did a war victory dance. not because i’m a huge fan of h&m – i do buy some cheap basics from h&m from time to time – but because i am a die-hard comme des garcons [...]

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Links à la Mode : Our Differences Unite Us

30 October 2009
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Our Differences Unite Us
Edited by Fashion Pulse Daily
Coming off of Ashe Mischief’s Independent Fashion Blogger’s Post (Good Cop/Bad Cop: Participating in Links a la Mode), you all brought your A-game in posting the links a la mode — which made it extra hard to edit! This week, the theme that I saw emerging throughout the [...]

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thesis collection: sketching, fabric choices, and final edits

23 October 2009
thesis collection

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
style muse: anna piaggi

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
i am me

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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