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Thursday, February 10, 2011

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.

xoxochadchad

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

chadchad of the day 0.4

black leather motorcyle jacket / vintage from Aprogod
white & black graphic hoodie / General Idea
grey sweater / no brand
chess piece necklace / A-Land
acid wash denim / April 77
black leather ankle boots / Aldo
red, black & white wall hanging / Marimekko

/ You will see me in this motorcyle jacket a lot. It's almost like my uniform. I found it at my friend/형 Shiggy's vintage shop in it's new location in Hyehwa-Dong called Aprogod for only W30,000. I met Shiggy almost 3 years ago when he first moved to Seoul from Pusan in his first shop located near the playground in Hongdae. My friends at the time and I would often go there on weekends to chat, sift through his collection and people watch from his prime 2nd floor location on all the kids wandering the streets before heading to a club for the night. I miss that spot and definitely don't meet up with him as often as I would like. Aprogod is also one of the sponsors of the Eco Jamboree flea market at N Seoul tower - so you can see him in his booth every month there.

The wall hanging behind me is a vintage Marimekko print that I found in my grandmothers basement. It's a little water stained but I love the atmosphere it added when I hung it on the wall of my bedroom.

The graphic patterned hoodie is a new favorite of mine as well. I also found it at the Gangnam Fashion festival flea market last month for a very nicely reduced price of W40,000. General Idea is made by Korean designer Choi Bumsuk, who I had a chance to walk for a few times in the summer of 2009. Here are links to all of his runway shows that I have covered over the past couple years:

General Idea SS11 @ Seoul Collection
General Idea FW10/11 @ Seoul Collection
General Idea SS10 @ the Hyatt Hotel
General Idea FW09/10 @ Koobar

I found the chess piece necklace last week at A-Land in Myeongdong (the best A-Land out of 4 in Seoul). It had a few extra dangly things that I took off and I also added about a foot of gold chain to lengthen it. The red double decker bus pin always confused me because it says 'New York Tour' rather than anything to due with London. I picked that up for W1,000 at Dongmyo flea market. I glued a pin to the back of my Star Wars Bearbrick, which was given to me by another 형 Uji who is also one of my hairdressers. He is always impeccably dressed and has a street fashion site called Yuji.kr. /

xoxochadchad