Audi Fashion Festival 2013- Parco Next Next

Hi guys! Yearly Audi organises a fashion festival in Singapore, consisting of shows, talks and trade shows. Well this year, I managed to go for one of the shows by a group of local designers who have their designs sold at Parco Millenia- Parco Next Next. 

 The show presented a total of 8 local labels. My favourite 2 of the group were Mash-Up and Lion Earl. (Pardon my photos (which are all leg cropping) as I was seated quite far back.)

Mash- up's collection was quite vibrant (as their signature style) and my favourites were the plastic wings that reminded me of Victoria Secret's Angels, and the plastic skirt.

Lion Earl had some beautiful peplum pieces and the final piece was a totally sexy piece that had most parts in mesh materials.

This year, the festival is set at Marina Promenade, beautiful place next to the Kallang River. Previous years were at Orchard. Though I like that Orchard had more buzz and crowd but Marina seems like a nicer place with the river and all that breeze. 

Dress: Ash Lapin

Clutch: Balenciaga

Shoes: Pedder Red

Rings: House of Harlow and Lovisa

Earring: Ash Lapin (coming soon in next collection!)

End off with this picture of me and a Magnum. Love it that ever year Magnum is a sponsor and the event goers gets free yummy Magnums! Slurp! 

P.S: Thank you guys for supporting our blog and all the lovely wishes for FT's new born. Just to clarify, it's our shared blog, so the one with the newborn cutie is dearest FT :) Isn't her boy such a cutie! 

Lots of Love,

Ash

200 Years of Wedding Fashion

Over the weekend, my colleagues and I had a fun outing at The Wedding Dress exhibition held at the National Museum of Singapore. The exhibition showcased an impressive collection of wedding dresses from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, along with the interesting history of the dresses and their wearers. Some of the dresses are almost 2 centuries old!

The fashion choices were greatly influenced by the economic and social conditions of the time. Like the 1841 printed wedding dress above and on the left. The bride was a farm labourer and it was far more practical and economical for her to choose something washable, coloured and printed over white and hard to handle fabrics. Many of the ladies would like to wear their wedding dresses again after their weddings too. 

Here's one unique red wedding dress from 1938. Red was a very unusual choice for a wedding dress and even the design was rather novel and simple. 

Right at the middle of the exhibition hall was this beautiful 1933 gown with a 2.6m long train! It was common for brides then to want to wear their wedding dresses for other occasions but with this impressively long train, this bride probably had the intention of wearing her wedding dress just once.

Many of you might find these two dresses familiar! The minidress was worn before by Sarah Jessica Parker in the Sex and the City movie in 2008. The dress on the right was designed by John Galliano for Gwen Stefani when she married Gavin Rossdale in 2002.

At the exhibition, there was also display of Western and traditional wedding costumes worn by Singapore women of different ethnic groups. The traditional bridal attires for Chinese brides are the qun gua and cheongsam. They are still popular these days during Chinese weddings and many will choose to wear them during the traditional tea ceremonies.

And on to the outfit of the day! I got this dress probably five years back (gasp!) and this is the first time ever I'm wearing it out. Omg, do you ladies have such experiences of keeping clothes for the longest time and just waiting for that one day with a good reason to wear it out? Finally, the day has come! haha. I thought that this dress will be perfect for a day at the Wedding Dress exhibition.

Dress from Far East Plaza

Shoes from Romwe

Necklace from Ahlens

Bag from Topshop

Hey I hope all of you are doing great! I'll drop by to say hi soon!

Ft

Copenhagen International Fashion Fair

My boss was so kind to bring me along to Copenhagen International Fashion Fair (CIFF) over the weekend. The truth is, I haven't been to such a fashion event before and I was excited! The fashion fair is HUGE. We were at Bella Center on Friday and Saturday and I swear we haven't seen everything! This event is a time for distributors and fashion designers to impress potential buyers and lots of effort were placed in the display and marketing of their products.

My hubby must be glad that nothing is for sale because there were just too many pretty things everywhere. All the products are for display purposes and only available for orders by shops. If only I can convince the boss to bring in all these pretty things to her shop. Ha!

Twice a year, my boss will visit CIFF to find and order new stuffs for her wedding and party dress shop. We spend the whole two days going through hundreds of stands and shops, networking with distributors and trying dresses with models in the shops. Honestly, I don't know if I will ever own a shop so it was really fun acting as a buyer there!

And lastly, here's what I wore on Saturday. It was so cold in Copenhagen! I had four layers on me but I was still freezing whenever I was out of the building. It's such a challenge for me to strike a balance between looking good and keeping warm. I wished I had my trusty windbreaker, fleece jacket and ski gloves on but I was too vain to wear them for CIFF. lol.

Here's the outfit beneath my thick layers of coat and sweater.

Black jacket: H&M

Denim jacket: Zara

Stripes dress: H&M

Vintage boots: Nostalgia, Iceland

Scarf: Vila

Have a great week ahead!

Ft