Japan & Yearning for Vintage

H&M Comme de Garcons line was outed in Japan on November 8th to mark the opening of a new H&M store in Japan. Comme de Garcons designer Rae Kawakubo started the label in 1969 and specializes in looks that shock - more Through the Looking Glass costumes than casual day wear. A huge fan of Japanese designers, I've always loved creationist fashion focusing on art foremost and practicality a little further down the line. Oooo I also love Eely Kishimoto, a British and Japanese duo who are also the creative directors of Cacharel mmm... A cute little EK dress for you AND the fabulous Commes de Garcons for H&M blazer my colleague Nina's boyfriend (taking a breath!) won in an H&M inter company competition. Yay! It has a fab almost top hat and tail like tail at the back.


Side note about something I reallllyyy miss about home. Vintage shopping. Any time we go to Atlanta I always make a dash for Little Five to go shopping. Got armfuls of stuff there mid year. Also had a piece of glass peak through the bottom of my gold mary janes and cut me when walking down the street, had my first Chai Latte in YEARS, got some sweet outfits for a friend's kick-ball 80's party, was tempted to drink absenthe at lunch time at the Vortex ("the green fairy is back!" .. sounds like a nightmare right) and went and saw one of my most favoritist bands, Animal Collective play live last year.

I've also heard that vintage shopping in Japan is fantastic. I wanna go so bad :( I studied Japanese through high school and have started to learn again with this awesomeawesome girl called Ikure. We wrote some hiragana and katakana last week and hung out. Class is a little weird because she can't speak English so we do a Chinese and Japanese mix. It's totally awesome. I remember a bunch of Japanese songs from primary school that I sing all the time to my boyfriend who's not excited, but Ikure loves it. Can't wait to go to Japan, go vintage shopping and bust out some Japanese!! Pic of my sister in Japan shopping a coupla months ago. Jealous x 10 to the power of bazillion.

It's SO cold here in Shanghai atm and they won't turn on the heating in our office until the temp is below 10 degrees - and it is bbbbbrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Working on a ShangBuzz we're sending out today. It's about why men love ShangBy. Have a J-Lo look for less, the awesome new products we've got up on the website and a little blurb from me. Can't wait to share it with yall!!

Off for now to eat some 50 cent delicious noodles. Muchos loveses and jewels XC