Down the Rabbit Hole / Little Burgundy SS14

photography / Saty + Pratha
fashion / Chad Burton
hair & makeup / Cody @ P1M
models / Julia @ Plutino Group & Alex @ Elmer Olson

I'm so happy this weird and quirky story for the Little Burgundy's SS14 Illusions issue is out for the world to see!  It was such a fun and chill day collaborating with Françoise & Sacha from Team LIL' BURG and of course a pleasure as always making good shit happen in Toronto with Saty + Pratha - I literally don't know what I would do without them in this city!













Be sure to pick up a copy of The Illusion Issue for free at your nearest Little Burgundy shop!



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chadchad of the day 7.6

top / Issey Miyake Men
trousers / American Apparel
shoes / G.I.L. Homme
sunglasses / Resurrection
clutch / Louis Vuitton

This outfit shot was taken last month during London Fashion Week, I've just been way slow in updating these days.  I was so in love with this pleated neon top that Issey Miyake Men lent me to wear and the color popped so well against the navy trousers, cobalt blue clutch and sunglasses and powder blue loafers.  I'm definitely a fan of shade blocking at the moment!

See if you can find me in this adorable spread from the LFW Daily featuring a rainbow of street style.  London is so vibrant and not so into the black on black looks that many fashion cities routinely follow.

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chadchad of the day 7.5

polka dot suit / Topman
floral vest top / American Apparel
blue clutch / Louis Vuitton
sunglasses / street vendor
blue loafers / G.I.L. Homme

Thanks to Pause Magazine for this street style snap out my outfit on Day 2 at London Fashion Week.  I wanted to play with pattern and varying shades of blue for this look and it was one of my favorite outfits of the week.  Unfortunately I don't get to keep the polka dot suit as it was a loan, but the rad floral tank top is all mine :)  Too bad I'll have to wait til next spring to wear it again.

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burger kim of the day 1.9

sleeveless shirt / American Apparel
shorts / Topman
suspenders / H&M
socks / Topman
floral shoes / Dr. Martens




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burger kim of the day 1.8

baseball jacket / Piet Parra x Nike
vest top / American Apparel
Toronto Blue Jays cap / New Era
denim shorts / vintage cutoffs
burgundy boots / Dr. Martens

Burger barely ever digs this jacket out of the black hole that is his closet, but every time he does wear it he gets so many compliments on it.  It's one of the few purchases he's ever made from Dover Street Market and is a collaboration between Nike and Piet Parra, a Dutch graphic designer, illustrator and co-founder of apparel label Rockwell Clothing. 

I love all the embroidered badges & pins about being on a team called 'The Lovely Under Achieving Loners' and thought they looked great against the backdrop of the Korean mart we often shop at near Center Point.   Shin Ramyun for life!  

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chadchad of the day 6.1

black shirt with pompoms / Burger & Fries
grey trousers / Sparks
black fur muffler / Human Potential
acid wash back pack / vintage
black shoes / Sanuk
studded fingerless gloves / Burger & Fries



Yesterday morning Burger and I decided to hit up the Sunday Up Market along Brick Lane for brunch.  It's full of boutique clothing and accessories sellers, both vintage and handmade, along with a dozen or so super delicious ethnic food stalls including Ethiopian, Greek, Mexican and Indian food.  I opted for some savory okonomiyaki from one of the Japanese stalls.

I didn't even need a jacket the weather was so mild. So I just layered this American Apparel sweatshirt that I reformed by adding black pompoms along the sleeves with my new faux fur muffler, another thoughtful gift from Korean label Human Potential.

I have a similar reformed sweater from American Apparel for sale on our Burger & Fries ASOS Marketplace boutique, this one with polka dots and white pompoms. Truly one of a kind!


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chadchad of the day 5.6

leather biker jacket / Human Potential 
nordic print shorts / Custard Yellow
black leggings / American Apparel
leather fanny pack / vintage
leather leopard print hat / OBEY


Huge HUGE Thanks to Rebecca (YK) Kim, the designer of Korean brand Human Potential, for sending me this super cool 2-stars biker jacket last week.  I was so psyched to open the surprise package and find this along with a few other goodies that I'll be featuring in outfits of the day in the near future.


I shot this photo today at the cover shoot for 1883 Magazine which we shot on location in the most amazing apartment in Earl's Court.  The shoot had a very vintage Hollywood feel with a very pretty (and top secret!) actress wearing everything from Tom Ford to Margiela to Valentino. The decor was very Egyptian and this room featured block printed wallpaper that I fell in love with.  It sort of clashes with the jacket but I just had to show it.  I'll try to post a few backstage images once the issue comes out the end of January.




The jacket is from HUPOT's spring/summer 2011 collection (I've blogged before about the leaf print monkey pants worn in the picture above HERE) and is a favorite among many K-pop stars in Seoul (see below).  I'm rocking the fanny pack which I use as my styling kit on photo shoots along with Burger's very cool leather hat with silver leopard print brim.

Amber from K-pop group f(x)

DJ Koo 

The Human Potential showroom in Seoul.

Human Potential's FW11 collection is available to buy online at the very cool & contemporary NOT JUST A LABEL website and features a lot of cool faux fur looks.


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london girls 0.4

LORE


Sick Girl / http://sickshop.tumblr.com/




ERICA


colorful top / Urban Outfitters vintage collection
black pleated skirt / vintage from Lithuania
black boots / Dr Martens
black bag / no brand




IRANG SONG



jacket / Japanese vintage
black tube top / no brand
black skirt / no brand
black Spice Girl shoes / vintage
earrings / Top Shop
cross necklace / no brand
tortoise shell sunglasses / no brand




AMY & SADIE



left /
pink jacket / Topshop
white blouse / vintage
aquamarine skirt / vintage
black shoes / Topshop


right /
grey jacket / vintage
leopard skirt / vintage
leopard bow tie / vintage
blue shoes / vintage Chanel




WENDY


knit cardigan / Chanel
white sheer top / Acne
black hot pants / American Apparel
black shoes / Topshop
black bag / Marc Jacobs
red hat / vintage


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chadchad of the day 2.2

brown leather jacket / vintage Memebers Only
brown rabbit fur vest / vintage
leopard tee / vintage from Aprogod
grey shorts / Raf Simons
black cracked leggings / American Apparel
studded black shoes / reformed Giordano Concepts
black frame glasses / Tom Ford
black hat / reformed H&M

I've been finding a lot of inspiration for outfits lately while riding the bus & browsing through my favorite iPhone app: STYLE.COM. It's an up to date look at every ready-to-wear, couture & menswear collection from New York, Paris, London & Milan right at your fingertips. Today's 'chadchad of the day' was inspired by the in-your-face Givenchy Fall 2011 Menswear collection by Riccardo Tisci which featured a lot of wide shorts & leggings (if you browse my lookbook you'll see I'm a HUGE fan of this look), graphics of snarling Rottweilers, black framed nerd glasses, heavy brown fur & some bad-ass thigh high lace-up boots with white soles.


My interpretation of this collection is more thrift store chic than brand name - an old roommates Members Only jacket, a rabbit fur vest I thrifted last year (which also looks great worn over the jacket) & a leopard staring intensely out of a vintage tee with ice-blue eyes. The shorts aren't nearly as baggy as I'd like them to be - I'll have to add a pair of those to my ever expanding wishlist.


The little gold crown pin on my jacket is from an online shopping mall I used to model for called JBros. They also have a magazine in Korea called JBOOK that features both men's & women's clothing, mostly made in Dongdaemun - think Korean version of Men's Non-No from Japan.

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chadchad of the day 0.8

black sweatshirt / no brand
pink, teal, black & white aztec print shorts / vintage
black cracked shiny leggings / American Apparel
pink, teal, black & gold cap / reformed vintage and H&M mash-up
elephant print gold chain / handmade
black sneakers / Converse


This was the outfit I wore to the shhhACHE! party on Saturday night, but since I didn't get a quality full length shot at the club I decided to recreate it this afternoon outside my apartment. The inspiration was this ratty, old vintage hat with an Indian/elephant pattern I found at Dongmyo vintage market for W1,000. The plastic inside the bill of the hat was completely rotten and the rest of it was in no better shape so I decided to mash it up with a teal baseball cap I bought at H&M.




I used a seam ripper to take out the lining and to separate the hat into sections. Then I used a glue gun with black glue to attach the sections onto the teal hat, starting by glueing the original bill to the underside of the teal hat's brim, since I would be wearing it tilted back. I LOVE black glue for glue guns - it's amazing when working with anything black so you don't see the strings of clear glue but you can also use it as part of the design itself. I left one of the triangle sections on the back of the cap empty to show more of the original teal color then glued it to felt and attached a gold chain to make it into a matching necklace.


The shorts were actually a short & tee combo (complete with shoulder pads!) that I found over the summer in a vintage store in Medicine Hat, Alberta where I studied Visual Communications in college. I originally wore them as a set when Handsome Furs were at Club Vera in August. I love the aztec pattern and the early 90's colors. I always pictured some small town elementary school teacher with overly permed hair wearing them on vacation to Disneyland with her family, complete with fanny pack and some dangly plastic earrings. /

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girls 3.0

Ji Young Kim / 김지영



23 / designer

black leather jacket / vintage
floral shirt / vintage
black shorts / no brand
black striped hose & fringe socks / no brand
red shoes / no brand
black sunglasses / no brand


Da Hee Park / 박다희


21 / student

grey trench coat / Yves Saint Laurent
white tee / no brand
black pants / vintage
black bag / Tagger
grey shoes / New Balance


Gyuri Lee / 이규리


21 / Bell & Nouveau staff

red dress / Bell & Nouveau vintage
white shirt / Bell & Nouveau vintage
black boots / Bell & Nouveau vintage
accessories / all Bell & Nouveau


Eon Young Kim / 김언영



27 / American Apparel staff

black & white polkadot trench coat / H&M
black leggings / American Apparel
white shoes / no brand
black bag / Chanel

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