Dawn dared me to put up this lame title. To prove my over-inflated ego right, I did it. *gloom*

I was in Zurich for a few days and I decided to travel down to Bern to visit the beautiful capital of Switzerland.

Fall is hauntingly beautiful with all these fallen leaves.

Black Outfit Breakdown:

• Coat: m)phosis
• Sweater: Nasty Gal
• Skirt: Some random store in Dong Dae Mun, Seoul
• Beret: m)phosis
• Boots: some auction from Taobao.

Guess who is resurrected from the dead? Clue: it’s not a mummy. Although I could pretend to be one with the Herve Leger wannabe bandage dress.

Despite still having one last paper to hurdle over, I’d like to think that my exams are over. So here I am, back to camwhoring taking self portraits alone out in the public and possibly disturbing a few ongoing wedding shoots in the meantime. The above pictures are awkwardly cropped because of my bewildered expression in all of them, which I tend to get when I am trying to not fall to my death spinning on platform heels. Such a sucker for punishment. But at the rate I am wearing those shoes, they are likelier to perish first.

Brrrraaaaaiiinnnnnnsssss

• Bandage dress: Far East Plaza
• Beret: M)phosis
• Jersey jacket: Cotton On
• Jersey vest (worn over jacket): Cotton On
• Shoes: H&M Divided exclusive

Brainchild of Fashion/graphic designer Penter Yip, Fashionary is a sketchbook designed with the fashion industry in mind. It features useful information like Brand lists, measurement charts, basic patterns, flat drawings, lists of books and websites related to fashion.

I managed to get my hands on these while there was like only 30 copies of it available on their Esty store early this month. They arrived a few days ago safe in my hands. As I opened the package I noticed how similar they are to Moleskine notebooks.

And I have to say, I really do like my Moleskine. I carry them with me all the time. I jot down ideas, to-do lists, shopping lists, blog urls and even has a list of stores I visit when I’m in New York. That being said, it was just not enough, the lines I have on the Moleskin just doesn’t cut it when I want to sketch down my ideas.

Going back to the Fashionary book. The size is about A5, much bigger than the A6 sized Moleskine that I carry, despite that, I do like this size cause it’s good for drawing and sketching. It features 130pages of pages with barely visible figure templates to allow you to sketch easily and quickly without having to worry too much about proportion and consistency.

I can’t wait to start sketching in them. All images courtesy of fashionary.org

We’ve got a request to do a Chain Harness~!!!

It’s pretty expensive to purchase these and I’ve seen really expensive ones from Etsy and other online stores so we took the liberty of creating a DIY to teach you how to make yourself a really simple Chain Harness. This DIY is really simplified so everyone can make one. The difficulty level can be increased to your liking by adding chains on the shoulders and back as well and it makes it even more interesting when you mix and match different types of chains.

Right now we’re only using one type of chain just to illustrate this DIY. There is another one which we made and Dawn wore it to the Nuffnang Blog Awards and it can be found in [this post]. It’s much more complicated (and of course prettier).

We start off with the stuff you need:

We’re using a mannequin here (albeit a crappy looking one which I used when I was still in school) cause Dawn is unavailable right now. You could borrow someone to create the Body Chain Harness or create it while wearing it, it’ll probably take just a little longer but it is still possible.

So firstly, make a loop of chain that goes around the back of the neck kinda like a halterneck.

It should look like this from the front.

Add a small length of chain to the front such that it drapes down. It should be around the underarm area so you can wear the whole thing over your body without any fastenings but it is completely to your preference.

We’ll proceed by adding even more chains.

and MORE…~!!! Until you get what you like, or if you run out of chains, whichever comes first.
At this point of time you may wanna consider draping some over the arms or at the back, or even have ideas to criss-cross the chains in front, it is really just up to your own imagination.

The points to note would be to include fastenings to open up for easy wearing if the design gets too complicated to put on or take off.

So there you have it~!! A simple body chain harness.
We hope you’ve enjoyed this DIY Clothes tutorial and we hope you bring more ideas for DIY fashion in the future. If you have any requests or ideas do let us know, we would love to experiment with new ideas as well~!!!

I bought a new dress this week. This probably makes it my 5397269834th black outfit.

Don’t remind me how many variations of this dress I have in my wardrobe. This one has a longer hemline at the back which makes it awesome. Your argument is therefore invalid.

It’s been raining everyday for the past 2 weeks ( I think…) and it was so hard to catch the sun. When I saw that it was up and there were patches of blue I ran out immediately to have pictures taken instead of just having it at the same old place.
Alas, I have been tricked, I got an awesomely treacherous looking sky instead.

It wasn’t shortly after this picture was taken, a downpour was upon me. /gloom

I am loving this pair of thigh high boots and the gloves with pyramid stud details. Yes, I know it’s inappropriate for Singapore’s weather but a girl can play dressup can’t she? ; )

Black Outfit Breakdown:

• Dress: m)phosis
• Necklace: m)phosis
• Thigh High Boots: Zara
• Gloves with pyramid stud detail: Topshop