Hervé Léger

net-a-porter

hello lover! how i wish to rock this tonight :(

1.16.09 // BOSTON // Great Scott / Northeastern Uni / TOO COLD

Happy Weekend!

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The Man Behind Heutchy.

Howdy Folks, it's Friday!
Woot, woot!
So, so, so glad. Been working a lot.
Been dying to get painting again.
But on kinda a sad note.... i think my studio is offically full!
Like the Thom Yorke Painting is sitting on top of a chair.
Marie Claire cover is leaning a against the six foot layered picture....
hm... i guess i have one of two options;
first, maybe i can start doing Gallery shows
so it frees up more room to make more art to hang in here.....
or two, i can try to figure out how to hang art on the celling...
haha, but need to figure something out soon.

The painting i posted today is of one of my best friends brother-in-law Lowe Stellberger.
He has his own Brilliant Shoe Line called Heutchy,
which i was lucky enough to get to design a fabric for his Spring 09 Collection (which is coming soon).
Oh and the painting was my second oil painting.
i hope you like it. :)

P.S. i got the funniest fortune cookie yesterday. It said "3 months to this day, something great will happen to you".
I'm hoping it comes true... So folks, mark the calander, April 15, 2009. It's going to be a good day! hahahha

HELLAUXX BOSTON !!

So I am back in Boston. Below Freezing Boston.





My good friend Justincredible (onthattip.info) decided to throw an unofficial welcome back party pour moi. I have been dubbed as a hostess as well as featured on the flier. Coincidently, it is the same party night that I helped launch right before I left Boston - the best going away party I ever had.





So say "HELLO!" at


HELLAUXX





Wednesday, JANUARY 28, 2009


PRVIUS LOUNGE


10 pm - 2 am


Brighton Avenue


Allston, MA, USA


FREE (21+ ONLY)

chanelmania :D

designer of the day: hussein chalayan

a collection that will steal your heart

thanks to knight cat for introducing this on her blog!

check out EVIL TWIN's new collection and tell me you didn't fall off your seat!

i wanna feel the air on my skin

lookbook

1.14.09 // BOSTON // Northeastern Uni

Bedtime Stories & Fairytales

Morning, Morning!
So i got a haircut yesterday,
which was much needed cause my hair was about the longest it's ever been!
So needless to say, i feel quiet nice this morning.
The post for today is a drawing i did for my friend Alice.
Well, on New Year's Eve we went over to her house (As seen here :))
and i looked up on the wall, and low and behold, the Painting was on the wall. :)
Oh, p.s. the picture is of me on another adventure in the underground forest.

But seeing it again made me want to post it.
i really enjoy this one alot.

I posted a song for one of my best friends Mr. Ryan Baxley.
i thought it was fitting considering the post was about his fiancés painting. :)
It's really a great song from his Album "Bedtime Stories & Fairytales"


Click Here to Download Ryan Baxley's Song
or if you want to hear more music posted on this blog Click Here

my eyes!

fakingfashion

BEAUTIFULLLLLLL! THE INSPIRATION!

pre-fall balenciaga 2009

my three favorite looks.... love the masculinity.
from style + wwd... wish the wwd shots were in HQ :(

DIY Vintage Bicycle Care and Repair...Guest Blogger: Old Bike Blog

Guest Post: Getting Started on that Vintage Bicycle

This series is about getting started on refurbishing an old bicycle, oriented primarily to beginners. I won't be talking about "restoring" a bicycle to original new condition, but getting an old bike cleaned up, tuned up, and ready for the road again.

I believe strongly that everyone who rides a bicycle should know how to take it apart and put it back together again, replace worn-out parts, and diagnose basic problems. While I'm not going to try to cover all of that ground, I can at least get you started on that old bike project, and point you towards helpful resources.

Step One: Getting Familiar With Your Bike

By the time an old bike gets to you, it's likely to need some cleaning (see RidingPretty's guest posts on my Old Bike Blog for some green cleaning tips). With cleaning, you begin the process of becoming familiar with your new machine. This bicycle is going to carry you faithfully all over the place, so you should get to know it.

Even if you don't understand what all the little bits do yet, start making mental notes about where everything is and how it's attached. Photograph every part, nut, bolt, cable, doo-dad, everything. This will help you with reassembly, and also give you a sense of accomplishment when you compare the before and after pictures.

To help you learn all the parts, and get a basic idea of how everything on a bicycle works, here are a few links that I find useful. Some of this may seem a bit complex for beginners, while others may find it too basic, but bear with me, these are links you'll come back to again and again:

BicycleTutor.com (http://bicycletutor.com)

Great video tutorials to help you do your own bicycle work.

Sheldon Brown (http://www.sheldonbrown.com/)

The Internet guru of DIY work and everything bicycle-related. The glossary alone has become a standard reference. Unfortunately, Sheldon passed away about a year ago, so attempts to contact him through his site will not be successful.

Jim Langley's Bicycle Repair Page (http://www.jimlangley.net/wrench/wrench.html

A close runner-up to Sheldon Brown, and full of good information, clearly explained.

How Stuff Works/How Bicycles Work (http://www.howstuffworks.com/bicycle.htm)

A good introduction for beginners. Delivers what it promises.

Bike Jargon Buster (http://www.whycycle.co.uk/bike_jargon_buster/)

A helpful diagram of all the parts of a bicycle.

Next time, I'll talk about a few of the first things that should probably be replaced on an old bicycle before you ride it very much, and how to go about doing the work yourself.

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This is the first post by guest blogger Old Bike Blog. Visit his blog for the first installment of my series on how to green clean your bicycle.

L'atelier D'un Fee

Hey everyone, how are you?
i finally took a day off cause i've been going a lot.
Did this blogger portrait from L'atelier d'un fee blog.
Please check out her blog.
i hope you like the portrait.:)

On another note, i've been working on this project,
not sure if it will happen, but if it does, i can't wait to fill you all in! :)

{pinkish lavender}

Currently and completely drawn to the lovely intermingling of pink and lavender . . .

{p.s.}
* guest post: color week at coco+kelley
* glamour on the side: daydreamer

{images: 1 - Vogue UK November 2006, photography by Nick Knight, model: Gisele Bundchen via flickr; 2 - photography by neil mersh}

platinum blonde life

thecobrasnake

i can't stop having these visions

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effortless

thesartorialist

Blake Lively is February cover of Vogue

It's actually no suprise we were waiting her to be the cover of vogue since December(all gossip we heard lol)

A Christmas Present

Wow! Hey friends!
Sorry about the absence.
i've been hustling on this project and haven't slept for like a week... hah

Well anyways, little while back a guy named Tom talked to me
about doing a portrait of a girl he knows,
as a Christmas present for her,
but it took a while to get an image and finally this picture was born.
i'm about to send it off today.
So Stephanie, if you are reading this, here is your Christmas present,
and i hope you all like it. :)

{something new}

A new year is a perfect time to try new things, and while routine has its advantages, thought it might be fun to shake things up a bit: instead of a single post per day, will be taking a more random, inspirational approach and post things as as they come . . .

{scroll down for new posts, or click on the links below:}
> gracefulness
> in search of inspiration

{images: 1 - martha stewart weddings magazine; 2 - s.r. gambrel}

{inspiration: gracefulness}

A beautiful collision of fashion and culture in this lovely past editorial from Vogue Italia . . .


{images: editorial: Think Pink; Vogue Italia April 2005; photographer: Steven Miesel; model: Gemma Ward; fashion editor: Edward Enninful}

Check Out My Bicycle

This posted over at Old Bike Blog as my project...there's another picture of her and a bit more of a story about my bicycle included over there. This was a Christmas present!

{inspiration: winter whites}

Elegantly crisp white walls have always been the perfect background for beautiful gallery arrangements, but in mid-January, their starkness feels like a fresh start, a promise that gleaming, sundrenched summer days lay ahead . . .

{see also:}
> verte & blanche

{images: 1 - rachel whiting; 2 - martha stewart weddings; 3 - stylist eva lindh}

{in search of inspiration}

. . . it seems that in every search for inspiration, all paths lead to Paris . . .

{p.s.}
lovely winter blues

{images: French Style via apartment therapy}