Author: awrensays
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Feng Chen Wang x Converse 2 in 1 Concrete (wear review)
A bit of background first, and then the review. There have been multiple versions of this 2 in 1 Converse x Feng Chen Wang before. As written on the Feng Chen Wang site, the original idea came about by deconstructing the classic Chuck Taylor. Each shoe has a double layered sole and outer layer and…
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Brand Spotlight: Feng Chen Wang
Feng Chen Wang is a Chinese born designer who now resides in London. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2015, she began her own line, bearing her name. Her debut showings were at New York Fashion Week. However, now her line is a fixture on the London Fashion Week menswear schedule. Though…
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Champagne vending machine? Yes, please!
Today I learned something very important. For just the low price of $38,000, you can have within your own home a champagne vending machine. According to the description on the Neiman Marcus website, the machine will carefully dispense “French champagne at the push of a button.” This machine from Moët & Chandon holds up to…
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Fashioning a new self
It’s probably just me, but I have to admit, I have felt that I don’t deserve to dress better. You may be confused because two-thirds of the content on this site is fashion-related. Well, it is very easy to think about things from a far, rather than get involved. I have just felt I, me,…
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I had to go to the mall to get some words
I wrote the first draft for this post sitting in a mall. Yes, a shopping mall. It was the first time that week that I was able to focus and get words on the page. Maybe it was because I had nothing else to do while I waited, but it was probably the fact that…
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It’s not inclusivity; it’s marketing
I had originally planned to mark Lunar New Year with a blog about the importance of the Chinese market for many brands. Then I was going to do a list of all the best Lunar New Year themed promotions and products. And then I got distracted, started writing this post way too late, and watched…
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How eating gummies is going to make me more successful
One summer while I was in grad school, I needed to complete a research paper. I wasn’t able to focus on home, so I would walk to campus only to discover I couldn’t focus there either. With the deadline looming, I needed to find a way to get the thing done. So, upon discovering just…
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The Frankie Shop Eva Tank is finally mine. Here’s how I style it
The Frankie Shop Eva shirt. Maybe you’ve already seen it, bought it, styled it. Well, I guess I’m late to the party. I first saw the style on a Net-A-Porter style challenge video . And I thought, “That’s cool, I want it.” Then later I saw KarenBritChick style it in dress form multiple times on…
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Brand Spotlight: The Frankie Shop
Gaëlle, the designer has an eye like no other for innovative social first designs Net-A-Porter’s Senior Fashion Market Editor Libby Page, as quoted on HypeBae While Gaëlle Drevet was working as a journalist for ABC News New York, the idea for her future shops emerged. She was not in the fashion world herself, but she…
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You don’t need discipline. You need hope.
As I laid on the couch, getting on my own case about all the things I have left undone, all the items of my to-do list still not checked, and the disarray of my home, I lamented my laziness. Getting up and walking outside, trying to get myself to do something, it hit me. “You…
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