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singapura

24 June 2008

i am from singapore. 100% singaporean. and (surprisingly?) rather proud to be so. since moving to new york less than a year ago, i’ve had 3 people tell me they’ve never heard of singapore. i bet they’ve never watched or read the news. we’re a small country in south-east asia at the tip of peninsula [...]

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the spirit of the samurai

22 June 2008

our last assignment of our fall 2007 semester at the parson‘s fashion department, was based on historical icons. some of my classmates chose to base their collections on twiggy, or alfred hitchcock etc. i, on the other hand, had just finished re-watching on dvd, bushi no ichibun, which translates into “one part of the warriors”. [...]

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queen of hearts

17 June 2008

i realized i haven’t uploaded my design work in a long long time!!! so you’re going to be seeing a whole flood of this, since i have a whole semester’s work that i haven’t put up!! (my sister and i at tokyo disneyland, christmas 2006!) when we had to do an accessories collection, my instant [...]

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working girl

29 January 2008

this is another one of my projects from the previous semester. it was for a bridge collection. for those of you who don’t understand what a bridge line is, well it’s a little hard to explain because it means a lot of things. we have the high-end designer lines, like donna karen, and then her [...]

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jara jara japan

5 December 2007

how excited was i when i found out that we all had to submit an entry to a japanese contest? pretty excited. how excited was i when i found out i had no time to really put a lot of effort into it? not that excited. it was a contest to design clothing for teenagers [...]

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deniminim

27 October 2007

i live in denims. jeans, skirts, dresses, whatever. so doing a denim project was just super!!! i had a lot of ideas and it was sooooo hard to decide on what i wanted to do! in the end, i picked a theme that i loved…. birthdays!!!!!! who doesn’t love a birthday party?? i know i [...]

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