HUNTING FOR ESSENCE: ON UKAY-UKAY SHOPPING AND MAKING THE BEST OF IT
Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wild or feral animals by humans for food, recreation, or trade. Animals may also hunt other animal species–but this is usually called predation. In philosophy, essence is the attribute or set of attributes that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its identity. For our purposes, hunting [...]
It’s Playtime.
When you were five, playing dress-up was the best thing you could ever do. Heck, there were no rules–you could put on the silliest things; from a shirt that’s a size too big (or too small), a pair of shoes that don’t match the rest of your outfit, pants way too bright, a heaping pile [...]
YAWYW’s Picks: Y-3 Manila
We’re loving these stuff from Y-3 Manila‘s Fall/Winter 2012 collection. Build your holiday wardrobe from head to toe with these sleek and stylish closet staples. Time to head on over and shop! 1) Men’s Footwear / Drake Low 2) Women’s RTW / Soft Hoodie 3) Women’s Footwear / Jete 4) Men’s RTW / Scarf SS [...]
Channeling Rooney Mara
All it took was newcomer Rooney Mara to snag the role of Lisbeth Salander in the film adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and the goth look is resurrected. Before we knew it, she was the new anti-it girl it girl, parading down the red-carpet sporting her sharp features, avant-garde, jet black hair, [...]
FABRIC FEATURE: GORE-TEX
A traveller can only go so far with his clothes. Depending on where his or her destination is, preparation is of utter importance. To ignore nature is to be futile and mentally impractical. Take nature’s creatures for example. Insects, arachnids, turtles and fishes develop exoskeletons to protect their body from their environment. Human beings, although [...]
DIY: Temporary Ombre Hair
Raise your hand if you’ve been dying to try out Ombre hair but won’t, because you don’t know if you’d love the hair trend on you for more than a day. [raises hand]. You still want to? [raises hand again]. Right. So here’s something for us ladies who are suffering from this fickle-mindedness. How about [...]
Suit Up ala Harvey Specter
Greetings Suitors! Most of you may know who this man is. If you don’t, let me introduce you to him. Harvey Specter. Número uno bad-ass lawyer. Whether you follow the show Suits and idolize the man or you just have a wedding to attend, here’s a tip to stand out without rocking a Kanye-esque red [...]
Fashion Picks at Comic Con 2012
Aside from a being an annual (sort-of) tv-series-film-geek-slash-hardcore-fanatics gathering, Comic Con is also a parade of Hollywood’s sartorial choices. At that, here are some stars we’d like to give shiny, gold stars to for donning such fabulous ensembles.
Understated Cool: Dev
Countless are the people who put on casual clothes everyday, but you can count with your fingers the number of those who bring it to a level of understated cool. One of the exceptional few is singer/songwriter Dev, whose casual but fun take on dressing leaves us all with a question “how does she do [...]
London Men’s Fashion Week
As if Men’s Fashion Week isn’t already visually stimulating in itself, seeing it through the eyes of Jak and Jil‘s Tommy Ton makes it ever more a pleasant imagery for everyone. Men looking sharp in crisp suits and swag in casual cool dressing, captured in candid photography is delivering you British mens’ fashion at its finest. Photos [...]
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