Mar 31, 2009

UNDERSTATED SEDUCTION IN THIRTYFOUR ACCESSORIES




While browsing on Internet I’ve discovered ThirtyFour, a Malaysian brand that produces very beautiful designes leather bags and accessories in small series.
I’ve interviewed the 32 years old designer ShuennKee Chong, in order to come to know something else about her creations. She was born and grown up in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and she has studied Metalsmithing at the Parsons School Of Design, in New York.

- What does ThirtyFour creates?
- ThirtyFour is an interdisciplinary design practice and lifestyle initiative. To date ThirtyFour has been occupied with explorations in skin, culminating in three collections of leather accessories that trace life’s various postures (accessories, bags, sandals).

- Which are the materials?
- At the moment : leather, fabric, metals.


- Which is ThirtyFour creations style? How do you describe the collections?
- Collection 03. As with their past collections, ThirtyFour’s current showing has skin and fold as material and process. By manipulating a simple crease, the collection toys with forms both organic and structured. This season’s exploration in skin sees vegetable tan calfskin, embossed leather, mock croc and pony hair as examples of different perspectives on texture and form. The pairing of unique materials and clean ,strong shapes evoke a relaxed and understated seduction in our designs.

- Howdoes ThirtyFour creationscome into existence? Which are the inspirations?
- ThirtyFour came to existence from passion in design. Inspirations comes form everyday routine, people we meet, new needs, the color of surroundings...



- Are ThirtyFour creations on sale? How?
- Yes. Retailing in specialty stores in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, New York and Berlin. And on the internet via www.wefew.net. We sell our creations since 2 years.

- Does ThirtyFour work also on contract?
- Yes.



To contact ThirtyFour:
shuennkee@thirtyfour.net
www.thirtyfour.net

If you want to purchase ThirtyFour creations in Europe, you can contact Diwa Tharan in Berlin: diwa@thirtyfour.net.

Mar 28, 2009

SS 09 - SUMMER IN COLOURED ANIMALIER

Summer in Coloured Animalier
Summer in Coloured Animalier - by Erica84 on Polyvore.com

Even if here in Milan the weather today isn’t so worm and sunny (it’s raining..), I can’t weasel out of thinking about summer and relax near the sea.
I’ve created an outfit full of colours and animalier patterns: spotted, cheetah, zebra and python print, in fuxia, blue , green and multicolour.
Bikini, sunglasses, hats, bracialets, earrings, scarves, but also make up, shoes, watches, clutches and vanity bags. Just to have an unconventional and eccentric style on the beach.

Mar 25, 2009

I LOVE SHOPPING – CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPALCHOLIC

Finally I have seen “I love shopping”. I think that most of my readers have seen this movie. However, it is about a young and exuberant woman, Rebecca, that is obsessed by shopping; she buys everything, even if it’s not necessary. And his obsession couses her some troubles with her job and also with the man that she loves…
But even if many men could say that every woman is “obsessed” by bags, shoes, clothes, brands and so on, I think that the moral lesson of this story is another one.
At the beginning Rebecca is a journalist in a small newspaper and she write article with topics that do not interests her so much. In order to solve her financial difficulties she decides to find a new and more gainful employment. In particolar she wants to work in a fashion magazine, but she will be employed in a financial one, where she advises her readers about money as she would do with clothes. And she do it very well! She starts from her passion for fashion and then she applies it to her job.
This is the important thing. She’s not (not only) a shopalcholic. She finds what she loves to do and it becomes a job for her.
I think that everyone of us should do it.
Some years ago a very important person for me told me that the most important thing that we can do in our life is to understand what we like to do and then do everything to reach our purpose.


Mar 24, 2009

ME ON .DELLAMODA.IT: M. WILLIAMSON FOR H&M

These days are full of happy news! Today dellamoda.it, an italian website about fashion, published one of my articles: it is about the partnership between H&M and Matthew Williamson, in order to create a mini and limited edition collection for the next spring/summer09.
This is the link: “M. Williamson for H&M”, by Erica Ventura
I'm very proud of it!!


Mar 23, 2009

1 MONTH WITH STYLE NOTES

Today Style Notes celebrates his first month of life!!
I'm very happy to comunicate to you that it had many visits from all over the world. Thanks to all of you: my several reades, my followers and all fashion and accessories designers that helped me to make Style Notes so interesting and welcomed!!
Here some statistics:


- Yesterday Style Notes reached the record number of visits in one day: 45!!
- Total visits: 505
- Total pages seen: 1655

In occasion of it I decided to call an opinion poll to decide which one of the interviews I published you consider the best one. You can find it on the right side of this page, at the top.
So, please vote it! :-D
 

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