Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Play with Fala by Fala Chien

When the weather is hot and sticky, I especially like to throw on a silk or chiffron one piece dresses and head out for a night in town. Silk feels cool on the skin, and chiffrons are light weight so it keeps air flowing, circulating an even body temperature. Most of the good quality silk or chiffron dresses you can find in boutiques that carries semi-formal to formal wears. H & M has been carrying a special blend silk material garments that feels like silk but less expensive than real silk. If you want real silk, Holt Renfrew will not dissapoint.

Then again, if you want something unique, how about "FALA" by Vancouver based fashion designer Fala Chien? The one piece black silk zipper dress is classy yet carefully designed to be different. Check out her other beautiful designs at her website:

http://www.playwithfala.com/

Labels: FALA by Fala Chien

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Summer Time: Florals prints, Hawaiian Tropis Sunscreen and Strawberry Ice Tea Time

I know I'm being very specific about my title, but it speaks exactly what summer is for me, and if you got more to add on the list, feel free to comment at the bottom. The more the merrier, and soon we can throw ourselves a little ladies night out! Wouldn't that be the perfect summer ^^?

This recent spring I spent the entire March helping a BFF putting together her clothing company's lookbook for Spring/ Summer 2010. The wonderful cozy easy breezy collection is now available on their website:

http://www.norcloset.com/

I adore this collection. It's my kind of nature-inspired neutral atmosphere, very much like Aritzia's collections.

Talking about Aritzia, I picked up this cute little floral skirt the other day. Maybe 100 other cheaper fashion lines carry the same cut same fabric same color even, but the hemming is certainly brilliant, and the surface of the fabric has been special treated. It's expensive for a reason and when this skirt survives another 10 years of beaches and UV rays, I wonder if the other 'copy skirts' are still in their fashionistas' closet.

Labels: Aritzia, Norcloset

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

OCEANS: The newest cozy Japanese Tapa Bar in Vancouverss

There are only so many restaurants that I like to go back to and when I do I go back almost for every meal. There's the Hong Kong style cafe called Glochester Cafe on Cambie and 16th in Vancouver, and just 2 streets away on Granville and 16th, there's now another equally amazing little place I just adore with all my love: OCEANS Japanese Restaurant.

My top 3 choices:

1. Yam fries

2. BBQ beef Toque

3. Fresh amaebi sashimi, and make sure u ask their chef to deep fry the remaining prawn head. It's the best :)

4. I lied, I also love their garlic butter steam mussels.

So I will see u at OCEANS sometimes^^

Labels: OCEANS Japanese Restaurant

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SUNNY MOON JEWELLRY

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Sparkle every Saturday at Tunnel Multi Lounge Grand Opening

It was one crazy party throughout the whole evening and I couldn't be more thankful for all those who came and had a good time with us :)

First of all a big huge thank you to True Entertainment and Tunnel Multi Lounge~!

All my love to our super amazing EMP crew, our president Daizo, dearest Dennis and Jon, my wonderful Gigi, lovely Adrienne, Cynthia and Kaz, Mati and Anthony :)

Thank you Norm for taking photos last night for us :)

The talented In Like Flynn for the wicked awesome opening performance!!

The sexy Bobbi and Christina aka "Destineak" for the killer after party show!~

To all my friends who came to the party! My dear Wai Lam, Mike, the lovely Lucy and James, the gents Jon, Horace and Wilson, my sweet Melody, Daddy King, dear Kenneth, Angela, Slyvia, Ar Lin, dear Edward, Rita, Gary, Daydream, Yuta, Jimmy, Yao and everyone who made the party a good time :) XOXO!!

Labels: Epic Marble Project, May 1st grand opening, Sparkle every Saturday, True Entertainment, Tunnel Multi Lounge

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Art At Snow: Patron Appreciation Event

Michelle's one of those people in life that you just really have to wonder how could someone be so talented. And she is. She loves art with a passion, and her work graces the Vancouver and international art scene with a fresh take on a totally unique art style of her own. The collection flows a underlying complicated amibent that is in contrast with the seemingly calm and conservative first glance, which successfully captured both the vision and the atmosphere of the viewer with pure imagination. The true christma of her art however lies in herself, a wonderfully charming talent with a vision and angle for ordinary things that becomes unique when it is captured by her lense. Sometimes we all try so hard to look for something special, but who would imagine it's all just right here under our noses all along :)?

Labels: Art At Snow, Michelle Fung, Patron Appreciation Event April 17th 2010

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Friday, April 2, 2010

LOCUS night at J Lounge March 31st

Over the week I spent some great quality time with my band LOCUS and friends at the very cozy fancy J Lounge on 1216 Bute Street just off from Davie. I thought doing 3 sets of 45 minutes performances was crazy but never in my life have I been asked to do encore 4 times. Isn't that like, another mini set right there on its own lol?

Thank you to Terry Coasta for inviting us we had such a wonderful time :)

Love to all my friends that came to our show we are so touched and will continue to push the limits. What? 4 full sets? ......... not that kind of limit lol~

Emily, Gracie, May, Dionne, Jon, Wai Lam, Anthony, Olivia, Michelle, Gordon, Ken, Catherine, Gigi, A-Lin, Nick, Zi, Felix, April, Alisa, Darren, Jon and Monica, Lucy and James, and our dear Bryce:)

Dohon: the hottest photographer ever!~ So glad to see u we missed u tons!~

Special thank you to my beloved for the amazing set up XOXO :)

Bryan and Dennis: Thank you for everything!~ U guys are amazing!!!

And my BFF bandmates Jason and Kelvin: thank you for everything and anything. I love u always and forever :)

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Aritiza Warehouse Sale

Honestly, there are times that even the sleeping beauty gotta get up early.

Hours:
Thurs April 1st: 5pm - 9pm
Friday April 2nd : 8am - 8pm
Saturday April 3rd: 10am - 6pm
Sunday April 4th: 11am -6pm
Monday April 5th: 11am -6pm

And you know how it works right? New stuff arriving daily and items gone very fast so bring your game faces on ladies :) Good luck shopping !~ XOXO!~

Labels: Aritzia Warehouse Sale April 1st to 5th

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Flavour of Glamour Fashion Show at International Village Feb 12th 2010

It was 3 months of prep work, visiting designers every weekend and listening to 10000000 songs to find my fixes of music for the show, with a bonus of a few sleepless nights, but it was all worth it. Definitely worth it. Definitely my fantasy came true :)

Love to all my models: Ally, Amy, Cassie, Dakota, Felicia, Lori, Maggie, Olivia, Sheila, Susan, Taylor, Nathan, Nick and Paul :)

XOXO to Stanley, Daizo, Gigi, event host Ken and Eric!~

Tons of thx to Jon and Dennis for the wonderful music mix!~

All my respect to Ms. Chris Lee for beliving in me, my crew, my models and my vision.

All my thanks to Joanna @ International Village for everything :)

Tons of gratitude to my photographers: Dale, Alex, Raymond, Albert, Elaine :)

Thank you to all the participants: LG Cashmere Ltd, K&Y Accessories, Galaxy Optical Eyewear, Ayden Gallery, Heavenly Beadworks, Inner Beauty, J Neilas and Sons Jewelry, Sophia's Fashion, and JNBY since 1994.

Labels: Flavour of Glamour Fashion Show, Tinseltown International Village

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

One World Celebration Variety Show at River Rock Theatre

After party dinner with director Lucy ( lower left), Michael Jackson impersonator performer Kyle Toy ( centre with hat) and the crew members.

Photo with Master Zhu, performer of the National treasure of performance art " The Magic of Changing Masks".

The amazing crew^^ From top left: Edward, Emily, Cindy, Jeremy, Stanley, Bonnie, James, Kaila. From bottom left: Gary, Grace, Jon.

Humm. . .. I know everyone's gotta dress in black. . but that doesn't include our coat. . does it???

Sometimes there are mountains that you think you cannot climb, but you still did anyways because you have climbed all others, and there are only afew of these left that you still haven't claim them under your belt.

For me, that mountain has been conquered in this past weekend, as I took on the impossible of being the backstage manager for the "One World Celebration" variety show at River Rock Theatre of Richmond. I honestly thought the "Flavour of Glamour" fashion show was "IT" when it comes to mountains to be climbed. Not even close. The pressure was actually so intense for me that I had never concentrated so hard. It was a show that everyone has contributed in so much efforts, with performers from all over the world, and I was in the middle of it, mobiling a cast of over 100 people through the some 2000 square feet underworld backstage.

All my love to Lucy, the most amazing director who had always, always, always given her 200% percent. All my respect to Cindy and Jon, who probably didn't sleep for 2 weeks for this show, and had been cueing the show so accurate for both nights, they must had all details down to the T, amazing^^ My thank yous to Emily, Bonnie, Grace, Edward, Gary, Stanley, for such hard work and amazing great team work. Xoxo to Jeremy of EMP for helping me deal with so much stuff so I can free my mind for other things, or else I just could not be able to concentrate. The adorable Opheila, for always being so sweet and helpful you always light my heart. My dear Dionne for being the elegant MC that bought the quality of the show up T.H.A.T. much!!!! So so so much!!! and Jeremy for working so crazily hard to the max you looked almost about to pass out!~

And to our superstar James: I'm sure you've climbed your own mountains for this show and lets just say that medley is now Lucy's best kept secret weapon whenever she needs to blow her audiences away :)

Photos: courtesy of Gracie Chen and Emily Xiong

Labels: Lucy Chan-Ng, One World Celebration Variety Show, River Rock Casino Theatre

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Flavour of Glamour Fashion Show

Date: Feb 12th 2010
Time: 7pm -9pm
Location: Tinseltown International Village Centre Stage 88w. Pender Street, Vancouver BC

"Flavour of Glamour" grand fashion show is one spectacular evening featuring an assortment of fashion boutiques and houses from Tinseltown International Village, namely JNBY since 1994, Ayden Gallery, J Neilas and Sons and more.

This is the breakthrough public event of year 2010 that presents the beauty of Vancouver's creativity and prosperity to our local community as well as visitors aboard.

Join us for a night of trendsetting fashions, shimmering glamour and win prizes from our hours to hour lucky draws!! See you all at the show XOXO!!

Labels: Ayden Gallery, Flavour of Glamour Fashion Show, J Neilas and Sons Jewelry, JNBY since 1994, Tinseltown International Village

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Monday, January 18, 2010

LOCUS is donating proceeds to Haiti Disaster Relief at UNICEF

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Back from Holidays and We've got ourselves a Peagant already

Thursday, November 26, 2009

The modern classic Belle of the NYC: SJP

Tell me you know who SJP is when I'm referring to this talented, elegant and sugar-ly sweet all time modern Hollywood red carpet-ly classy lady is.

You know what? I will just assume you know who I'm talking about and we'll leave her as SJP. Kinda like when we talk about Prince. He's referred to as P. Or rather a more fancier version of P. But. . you know what I mean. If the gentlemen have their P to represent their symbolism categories, well, fear not my lovelys, we've got SJP. And it's "SJ" more than their "P".

And yes, it is something to be proud of.

So when her new film "Have You Heard About The Morgans" hits theatre, I'll see you at the red carpet. And don't even mention about the Sex and The City 2. I'm already gone and sitting BACK ROW and CENTRE. Flash your blackberries at me my lovelys. I'll flash back I promise!~

For more about SJP aka Sarah Jessica Parker ( or aka Carrie Bradshaw), check out her fragrance website: http://www.sarahjessicaparkerbeauty.com/

Labels: Have You Heard about The Morgans, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and The City 2

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Hitting downtown in all that Jazz~!

Imagine on a cozy not too cold, barely rainy Tuesday night, hanging out with friends in Downtown Vancouver Denman street, having a casual dinner at the very modern yet vintage "Legendary Noodles", and then attended a 8:30pm Jazz and casual plug in night at the hip and chic "Central Bistro", drinking martinis and largers and spending the night being at ease . And that was exactly what Jason and I did this Tues, and had tons of fun. Tons :) Who said entertainment has to wait until the weekends ^^

Where:
Central Bistro on Denman Street
Who:
The talented Tara C Taylor, the sweetheart Kacie Wallace, the rocker Hazen Rice, the glamour diva Matthew Presidente & Special Guest, the hearttrob Matthew Mai
What:
Every Tuesday night Ms. Tara C Taylor and her beautiful musician friends Matthew Presidente, Kacie Wallace and Hazen Rice performs both covers and original songs to audiences at Centro Bistro. For more info: http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=198294909776&ref=mf

Labels: Hazen Rice, Kacie Wallace, Matthew Presidente, Tara C. Taylor, The Central Bistro, The Legendary Noodles

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Vancouver Fashion Week Spring Summer 2010 @ Terminal City Club

Jane Iredale Pure Minerals Makeup

This mineral makeup has a lot less then other mineral makeup products, which makes it a whole lot more. It is talc free, no parabens and phthalates, no coal tar and synthetic dyes, no synthetic fragrances, petroleum free, non-comedogenic, non-irritation, and did not test on animals. Moreover, the philosophies behind the label have truly displayed how beauty and fashion, and businesses alike, can bring cummunities and societies together. For more information about this wonderful beauty line, their website is http://www.janeiredale.com/


Eminence Handmade Organic Skin Care of Hungary is the first and only certified organic skin and body care line from Hungary. It uses biodynamic ingredients, it is hypoallergenic, has been clinically tested, and uses recyclable glass packaging, FSC certified paper, and vegetable inks. The products were made using wind power energy, and best of all, all products are free of parabens and harsh chemicals. Talk about through and through organic and envirmental friendly. For more info visit: http://www.eminenceorganics.com/

http://www.maggiecoulombe.com/

Ms. Maggie Coulombe is of Korean ancestry, a Toronto native, living in Hawaii and a celebrity fashion designer and stylist. She graduated from Ryerson University School of Fashion as Designer of the year, and has dressed numerous celebs like Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Halle Berry, Teri Hatcher, Lindsey Lohan, and more. Watch for her runway show on Nov 7th 8:00pm at Colin Campbell, 494 Railway Street, Vancouver.

http://www.jewelrybyrosalina.com/

Born to a famous jewelry designer in Vietnam, Ms. Rosalina Lydster is the current hottest sought after jewelry designer by celebs such as Tom Hanks, Orlando Bloom, Hilary Duff, Tori Spelling, Elton John, Fergie, Dakota Fanning and many more. Watch her show with Meggie Coulombe on Nov 7th 8:00pm at Colin Campbell.

Lemon Park http://www.lemonpark.ca/

The Lemon Park sisters, Tania and Penny Gleave, have always shared an interest in fashion and design, and often discussed starting a business together. So when Penny expressed an interest in changing careers at around the same time people were asking about jewellery Tania was creating and wearing at her openings, they decided to start Lemon Park.
Lemon Park came from the idea of the seaside park where the sisters and surrounding neighbourhood children spent most of their time outside of school. “Park” was chosen as a result of wanting to suggest an idea of a big, open space, a space in which all kinds of things happen and where ideas take shape. No limitations. Big enough for everyone.

Defy Gravity Design

DGD is a jewelrl and apparel company inspired by personal freedom and unconventional thinking. Through new ways of thinking and approaching ideas, DFD pushes cultural boundaries and has no fear of being. Their products are a response to mood and emotion and are a reflection of these elements by romanticizing unconventional concepts. http://www.defygravitydesigns.ca/

House of L jewelry Design

They are better known as vintage remix accessories. All designs are ideal for both casual and couture wear, while most features a modern voctorian era of style, which gives its pieces a romantic touch to their edgy side. Catch House of L jewelry design throughout VFW. http://www.vanfashionweek.com/

It certainly was T.H.E. NOT TO MISS party for all fashion industry personel in Greater Vancouver. As the party began at Terminal City Club in downtown Vancouver tonight, the Semi Annual Vancouver Fashion Week is once again began its full week of fashion shows, parties and lost of industry activities that brings the city one notch more fabulous than usual.

This year VFW Spring Summer 2010 is featuring 4o designers of all styles. I am especially looking forward to Aboriginal designer Dorothy Grant, emerging designer Fala Chien and fashion label Broken Ghost Couture.

For more information visit: http://www.vanfashionweek.com/

I look forward to seeing my lovelys throughout this weekend :) XOXO~

Labels: Defy Gravity Designs, Eminence Handcare Organic Skincare of Hungary, House of L Design, Jane Iredale, Lemon Park, Meggie Coulombe, Rosalina Lydster, Terminal City Club, Vancouver Fashion Week

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Newest hottest products in town just in time for Vancouver Fashion Week

To my very surprise, this line of lip gross produced by DuWop for the Twilight franchise is high shine, light weight, non-sticky and at the same time is infused with a hint of fragrance. Other products by DuWop for Twilight includes character themed color platetes, and a very name fitting lipstain called Venom. In the picture is lip gross in Kindle.
http://www.twilightbeauty.com/

Here is the one mascara that MIGHT gives Dior's mascara for a run of their money. This new hottie freshly imported from Japan is the newest most revolutionary mascara of its kind. It doesn't stick color onto eye lashes. It forms tiny water resistant tubes around your lashes rather than painting them like conventional mascaras. The best thing about this product is that it is very easy to remove. Warm water. Nothing but warm water or waterproof makeup remover will remove it. the tube slides out instead of smugning onto the face. For more info:

http://www.kissmemascara.com/

The Vancouver Fashion Week Spring Summer 2010 opening gala is starting in under 2 hours across town at Terminal City Club and I have 40 minutes to type in my latest find. I'm sure everyone else has it harder at Vouge than I do so I'm not complaining. Besides, these are indeed very exciting products. The latest. Isn't that something worth fighing the 5 o'clock traffic jam to get this posted asap for :)?

Labels: Beauty Mark in Yaletown, DuWop Venom: Just Bitten, Kiss Me Tube Mascara, Luna Twilight Femme Fatale, Shoppers Drug Mart

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