UNLEASHING IT ALL.

LalaLiu Spring/Summer 09
























Please excuse my fug face. Thanks.

UNLEASHED.

It's just a piece. Stay tuned for more awesomeness.

Pictures are louder than words: What have I been up to

Nerding it up
(with my new fake glasses from Buffalo Exchange's $1 Sale)





Mannequin as my third roommate




Utilizing my 21 year old privileges with a butterfly on my head.

What has been consuming my life.

Dun. Dun. Dun.

Yes, it's that season again. Fashion show season and this year I foolishly decided to do a 12 piece collection with four menswear pieces. Huh.

I'm turning old in three days. It's a mixture of happiness and sadness. Like when you over eat something really yummy. Like it's really good when you eat it but then you realize you will need to spend the next three days in the gym.

Fashion show + work + internship + sleepiness + oh yah school = a very tired me.

Sophomore Year Comes to an End.

Only finals week left and then I kiss goodbye to a great second year.

I have so many exciting thoughts for summer in my mind. Hopefully they come to life!!




So in return of my missing out of the blogsphere in the past and present, here's a few more fashion photoshoots in return. Enjoy!

Top 3 from photoshoot, bottom 2 Daily Bruin

Grounded.

Courtesy of Chris Wu

OMFG. OMFG.

OMFG.

Tonight was amazing.


Pictures to come.




triple pinky promise with a cherry on top.

I am still alive. Don't you fret.

I am a tasmanian devil.

No. Like seriously.

• "Do I Stink?" T-shirt: Free from walking down campus
• Soffee shorts: $1 from some shady outlet store
• Flip flops&bed hair

I haven't posted any outfits or any posts in general in a long time but I just a have a whole lot of a thing called "stuff" going on and in terms of clothing I've been living in T-shirts and boxers as much as I can.

But a lot of things have been going on lately many of which are super exciting!

In beautiful bullet point fashion:

• I am now officially an assistant editor of design!
• I won a $2000 scholarship based on my essay about my strange fascination of tights. Awesome.
• I never realized how much snot and mucus a human being could produce until I got sick for now apparent reason this weekend.
• Fashion line coming along better now.
• Bug bites on your toe is so not fun.
• I still am socially awkward no matter how much I try. Shoot.
• I still suck at being fake. Shoot.
• I officially got my acceptance letter from BOCCONI!!! It feel so much more real now!! All I need is my password and pin so I can sign up for stinking housing or else I'll roam the streets of Milan as a homeless asian girl.

My temporary BRB was due to mainly all the commotion of fashion show stuff. It's coming along rather well although at times I really am sick of it and just want to curl in my bed and watch Gossip Girl instead. The photoshoot last weekend was swell. It was better than swell. It was SUPASWELL.

Here's a sneak peak of my collection!

A look at the finished product:

brb stands for be rightback babes.

My Spring Break Through Pictures because as they say pictures are worth a thousand words.

30 Minute Thrifts Are Impossible.

I managed to take a break from my sewing rampage on Wednesday. Actually, it wasn't by choice. I had a teeth cleaning at 11. I went dim sum-ing with my dad afterwards so I figured I might as well take the whole day off from sewing. I asked him to take me to the thrift store because I haven't been there in soooooo long. I almost forgot the feeling of thrifting.

I told my dad, "The most I will spend in here is 30 to 45 minutes. Don't worry. Go park under the tree and take a nap."

He did. But it wasn't because I told him to. It was because he always takes naps in the afternoon no matter where we are.

I went in and was greeting by the giant "3 for 1" sign dangling from the grey ceiling. To my right were the shoes. Colorful, old, tacky and wonderful, and to the rest of the perimeter around me was a field of treasures waiting to be found. I asked a lady what the 3 for 1 sign met. She told me anything with a white tag is buy one get two free. Sweet.

I went up and down each aisle like a huntress ready to prowl on a prey at any moment. Sweatdrops were skiing down the slopes of my forehead and my arms were getting sore from my plastic basket of smelly old clothing. I had only planned on going down the dress and skirt section but I decided to do the rest of them as well. Plus my dad hadn't called yet so I figured I was still in good time. I wanted to pick up everything that caught my eye but I had to restrain my inner urges. I had to remember it's still money and things add up.

The hardest part of my thrift and why it took so long was because of the sale. I had to find three items, with white tags. I tried to match things according to price but when it came down to it I had four items. Should I go out into the wild again and find two more pieces or take one out?

It took me 30 minutes to decide what to do.

I went with the latter choice and quickly paid. I looked at my clock it was almost 5. I went in at 2:30. Something was made clear that day: 30 minute thrifts are impossible.

I ended up with three bags of stuff. Or more like 2.5 bags of stuff because the lady placed the shoes in a separate bag.

The GREATEST pants I have ever met: $2. I love them. LOVE them. This was the first thing I saw and I immediately knew it would be a good thrift day. I don't know if I should keep the integrity of the pants or shorten them to a shorts/skirt looking thing which would make it easier to wear. Hmmm...Suggestions?






Vintage Summer Dress: $3. It's such such a cute dress. I love it. Too bad it has some obvious stains on the color. I thought it wouldn't fit when I bought it but it does and I am very joyful about it.


LBD, LBCD (little black cocktail dress): Doesn't fit, hence my somber face. Shoot man. I think I might try my hand at ebay this summer.

Silk Shoulder-Padded-Goodness Blazer: Part of the 3 for 1. My price paid was $5 for the leather skirt so it was 3 for $5. Lets see if we divide that...we get...$1.67. I bought it because it reminds me of the Moschino Blazer in the exact same color that I fell in love with but could not afford. This will have to do.

Hat with little feather: $3 The hat is kinda small for my head. But I think I'll wear it like that. Like those little clown hats or those little hats that tightrope walkers wear at the circus? Oh! Circus hats! I want one..
Minnetonka booties: $4

Leather Skirt: $5

Dress: The last piece of the 3 for 1. It's actually quite big and ugly but I will make it cute. I just really liked the details on the front.

But other than my brief thrifting/teeth cleaning/dim sum excusion, I still have been sewing non stop. Last night I went to sleep at nearly 4 in the morning and woke up today around 8:40. I don't know how I even managed to wake up. It seems like I'm not even tired. Weird. Maybe I've been zombie-fied.

More pictures of my collection making in the progress. Oh I'm so excited!