Red Star: Personal Fashion

Images by Hrishikesh Vimadalal 

Dress: Masion Martin Margiela x HM; Shoes and scarf : Irregular Choices 

This is my version of being girly. Does this qualify as a date outfit in normal terms? lol.

Disconnect to Connect: Personal Fashion

Images by Alison Wynn  

Coat: All Saints; Leggings: BCBG; Inner Black top: Complex Geometry; Red Sweater: Thrifted; Head Scarf: Irregular Choices; Cross Necklace: Pureville; Shoes: Underground UK 

New Uniform! This one. In love with the crazy zippers on this sweater I found at a thrift store in the desert in California. Totally worth every penny. And this cross necklace, as I had mentioned in an earlier post, I found at Pop Souk. I love my unique finds of fashion. A closet full of them is all I want. 

So halloween and NYC Marathon got cancelled due to hurricane sandy in NYC. Which was a bummer but Sandy was no joke and I support the cancellations of both events as the city resources are seriously needed to manage the sandy after effects. I am just glad that my work is back in action from tomorrow and I can get back to my routine. For such a free spirit, its unbelievable now accustomed to a routine I am. Don't know if I will ever be okay with not working. Also daytime telly is terrible! So no incentive.

How is it going with you guys? Give me updates! 

Utterly Butterly Delicious: Personal Fashion

Images by Ben Taylor 

Harem Pants and Top: Borrowed from Retarded Velvet [all opinions here are my own and this is not a paid gig]; Jacket: Suno; Shoes: Irregular Choices 

Can someone please explain the genius behind these prints to the non-Indian world? I am going to try but if you think you can do it better, you should in the comments section. 

PART ONE: The Pants 

These harem pants have a print of a very beloved and extremely famous caricature for a butter brand in India called Amul. This chubby "Amul Girl/ Baby" has been the mascot for the brand since 1967 and Amul ads are the best billboards on this planet! They are witty, always a spoof on current affairs hence relevant and they always incorporate this Amul Baby in it. These ads are so cool they've won a Guinness world record for the longest running ad campaign when first launched in 1967. I could have just given you the link to the wiki page on this info but nooooooooooooooo, I wanted to type it all while on a terrible work deadline just for you. For reals. So how ingenues is this idea by retarded velvet to put this Amul baby character on a pair of Harem plants?? 

PART TWO: The Top 

The top has another crazy Indian cultural and mythological comic strip called "Amar Chitra Katha" on it. So you can find out more about this here.

PART THREE: The Jacket

You have seen me use this jacket a couple of times before on the blog. It is insane in it's prints and colors too and I think unintentionally it does have an Indian feel to it [with the back print that you can see here] which totally compliments all the other modern [almost hipster] cut separates in this outfit with an Indian traditional pop culture print.

Now I have to get back to work! Hope all you guys had a great weekend! I surely did! 

xo

Show Me the Mulla: Personal Fashion

Images by Ben Taylor 

Jumpsuit: Retarded Velvet; Shoes: Irregular Choices; Jacket: Zara

"Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada 

Them basic bitches wear that shit, so I don't even bother! "

During and after every fashion week this is how I feel. I am going to stop at that note and refrain from saying anything more cause if I start I may not be able to stop. lol. 

Ben and I got kicked out of almost all the shops/ restaurants we tried to shoot at in China town today. If you look very closely in the second picture, there is a wall in the restaurant behind me that is fully covered in dollar bills. That was going to be the location for our shoot today but the stupid dudes working at the restaurant would not budge. It would have been beyond perfect for a shoot with this One Rupee [Indian currency] jumpsuit of mine from Retarded Velvet. No? Oh Well. We still got some serious shit just on the street. It's my Indian-Harakuju-Pimp-on-crack look y'all. It's right on the money! ;)

Tell Me a Little About that Girl in The Mirror: Personal Fashion

Images by Alison Wynn 

Playsuit: Vintage; Jacket: Suno NYC; Shoes: Irregular Choices 

Doing a shoot aimlessly is always fun. Alison and I wandered around for a location for this shoot until we stumbled upon a metal scrap furniture yard, then a pile of garbage [which we shall not get into the details of], then a play ground and then dudes playing basket ball in the play ground. You can not capture the story behind the story most of the times, and that's sad, but it is certainly equally interesting.  

Hope most of you are enjoying this summer despite the recurrent heat waves. Please do share some stories about your summer with me. I did like to know just for the heck of knowing what all you guys are up to. Blogging ends up being a bit of a one way conversation and I would love for that to change. I want to know about your life too! 

Love you all. Whoever in this *bigger than the galaxies* cyberspace visits this blog.