cracker your drama

Cracker Your Wardrobe, a street style magazine based in Seoul, South Korea has recently launched a web drama called (you guessed it) Cracker Your Drama, which will be released over the next 10 months.  In episode 3: Metamorphosis my friend Takahito Irie, a Japanese artist that I met in Seoul while he was taking part in a residency at Platoon Kunsthalle, makes an appearance.  You can also see a giant photo of my face being carried around and yelled at by the protagonist.  I'm painted like a 'Human Machine' which is the title of a recent collection of work by Takahito.

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Resurrection sunglasses

Ahhhh!!  Look what I got in the mail the other day.  HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you to Resurrection designer Juyoung Lee for this super pimp pair of sunglasses straight from South Korea.  How great is the snakeskin case with red velvet lining and two stud detailing that mirrors the studs on the arm of the glasse?  Very.  




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A New Space Around the Body

I stopped by the opening for an exhibition of emerging Korean fashion designers on Tuesday evening at the KCCUK. Below are a collection of photos I took during the opening, but if you want a description of each designer take a look at my blog post for 1883 Magazine HERE.














































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jehee sheen ss12

It was all about shorts at the SS12 collection by Korean designer Jehee Sheen, which was presented during Seoul Collection back in October.  Short shorts, medium shorts and long shorts (trousers?) were all seen under oversized linen jackets in black, white & neutrals and were paired with very styling gladiator sandals.  The short shorts were my faves (obvi) but I also enjoyed the full cut of the just-above-ankle length variety as well.  Calf length capris however, I am never a big fan of.  





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Smirnoff Nightlife Guide to South Korea

The Smirnoff Nightlife Guide to South Korea is finally out!  So glad I got to reminisce on my life back in Seoul by contributing photographs, an interview and a complete list of Seoul's nightlife from A-Z.






Be sure to click HERE for the full interview with shout-outs to many of my favorite Korean designers, places, DJ's & peeps plus interviews with SUPERCOLORSUPER and LOCKSMITH.  


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chadchad of the day 5.9

navy & grey shirt / Filippa K
grey trousers / tailor made
brown shoes / no brand

My roommate is officially Sweden's best dressed man!  I took a photo of my flatmate and old coworker Oscar a few months ago, which he submitted for a competition by cafe.se and luckily he won!  His prize was a very cool shopping spree back in Stockholm at Dior, Hope, Whyred, Bjorn Borg and Filippa K where he bought me this very smart looking navy shirt with grey jersey sleeves as a thank you.  Well done Oscar!  

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liberating herstories

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chadchad of the day 4.5

navy waffle print top / Topman
magenta shorts / reformed UNIQLO
sunglasses holder / vintage from Guatemala
yellow socks / Topman
white woven leather loafers / vintage


Greetings from TRAFALGAR SQUARE! Now that I'm not working a full time job on top of an internship and other freelance commitments I've had a chance to check out some of the sites of London. Most recently I hit up Trafalgar Square and the National Portrait Gallery with an old roommate from Seoul. The last time I actually set foot in Trafalgar Square was way back in high school on a whirlwind European vacation with the travel club aka 13 other farm kids that actually wanted to see the world outside of Saskatchewan. We raised money from car washes, cleaning ditches, working Bingos, etc and traveled to London, Paris, Pisa & Rome in only 10 days, it was mental. Would love to go through those old photographs...



I found this sunglasses holder when I went to Gwangju, South Korea last spring to take party photographs of a Jagermeister launching party at Club Volume, with Korean singers HOUSE RULEZ  & SAPH FIRE performing. The shop owner told me it was vintage from Guatemala but who knows. I loved the vivid pattern and often use it as a holder for my iPhone rather than for sunglasses.



The loafers are also vintage from Korea, but these were picked up at Dongmyo Market in Seoul for only W2000 ($2.00 US). Great woven leather and suprisingly my size, which is not an easy task in a country with rather small feet. I wanted to bring out the colors of the sunglasses holder so I wore these baby yellow socks from Topman and a pair of magenta trousers from UNIQLO that I had tailored into short pants.


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Seoul's 10 Soul

The South Korean government has been pushing Seoul to become one of the world's major fashion cities and after a successful showing of Korean designers at Concept Korea during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York last fall, they recently debuted in Singapore at Seoul's 10 Soul. Take a look at this video and tell me your aren't psyched by what Seoul has to offer! (Also keep your eyes peeled for me on the catwalk in the ALANI & Jehee Sheen segments of the video as these were two of the shows I walked in during Seoul Fashion Week FW11).



Featuring 10 of Korea's up and coming fashion designers including ALANI, beyond closet, GENERAL IDEA, GROUNDWAVE, jaehwanlee paris, jardin de chouette, Jehee Sheen, KAAL E.SUKTAE, LEYII and Steve J & Yoni P, the designers each presented 3 'cruise' inspired outfits.  Check out Kokokoreano's coverage of the event HERE.


Also thanks to both Kokokoreano, a leading entertainment & fashion site which covers South Korean celebrities, and blogger asiaRasia of whutderrfakqizvat for giving me a heads up & emailing a scan of an interview about me that was featured in the 'Dynamic Seoul: All about Seoul Fashion' handout that was given to everyone who attended the Seoul's 10 Soul performance.  It was actually a translated & shortened version of the same interview I did for Harper's Bazaar in September of last year. I love that they included me in it! 








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