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Scott Schuman's Hand

Scott Schuman's Hand

I giggled when I saw these photos from Dolce & Gabbana. We had a little photo op after chatting with the lovely Domenico and Stefano post-show.

Keep an eye out for Scott Schuman's hand. Soo adorable LOL.

Oh to be felt up by a superblogger.  Is he touching my bloated tummy for good luck?

GAYSIAN BUDDHA BUDDHA BOO IS DAT ME CHU? Bing bing bing!

You know, there are people in my country seriously worshiping the ground he stands on. I think I've read a newspaper article a few weeks back by an over enthusiastic local writer who chronicled a big song and dance about meeting him in New York, queuing in line to get an autographed copy of his book... and if I remember it right (feel free to correct me), she explicitly wrote that she arrived there first but she ended up being second in line. Or something like that. So there. He's big in Manille. Heck, he's big everywhere!

photo credit: dolce & gabbana

Fashion's Use of Social Media and the Internet + Bryanboy at France24

Fashion's Use of Social Media and the Internet at France24

Jessica Michault, the online Style Editor of the International Herald Tribune shared the highlights of the Spring 2010 fashion season at France24 earlier today. I spoke to her on the phone a few days ago where she picked my brain (brain? what brain?) and interviewed me about my thoughts in this whole fashion + social media phenomenon.

Keep an eye out at the video screen behind her. Guess who made a cameo appearance on France24... go bloggers!

Thank you so much Jessica.

PS. I always get chills running down my spine every time I see clips from the gorgeous McQueen show.

Daily Telegraph UK's 20 Best Fashion Blogs

Daily Telegraph UK's 20 Best Fashion Blogs

Thank you so much to the massive Daily Telegraph up there in Britain for including me in their "20 Best Fashion Blogs" list. It's an honor to be part of your favourite online fashion clicks. A few friends made the list as well. Congrats to everyone!

Just to clarify a thing or two (I know, I know): although there are several occasions where I've been fortunate enough to be flown in several cities as a "guest", nobody has flown me to the Spring 2010 shows in New York, Milan and Paris and all expenses were paid for by my humble pocket. While some of my traditional media counterparts flew first or business class, billeted at ultra fabu hotels indulging with 100-euro breakfasts (recession what recession), I for one had to rely on short-let apartments on craigslist and whatnot. I even flew coach from New York to Milan with model Kasia Struss! In Paris, I paid something like 800 euros for 10 nights at a modest but lovely apartment! LOL Let me tell you one thing though -- I'm glad I went for broke and joined the fashion circus this season. I think my investment paid off, otherwise I wouldn't have that gorgeous new banner graphic (which silenced and stunned too many to mention) on top of my website. Hah!

Perhaps next season I'll have a lovely benefactor.... please pretty please?

Now as for me being Christopher Bailey's so-called BFF...... where did that come from?

DO ME DAILY CHRISTOPHER BAILEY? CALL/SMS ME! +63.927.350.7453

Thanks again Daily Telegraph!

photo credit: styleclicker

Bricks Versus Clicks

Bricks Versus Clicks

Just going through my usual dose of fashion news online... D&G shows some major online love, even placing YOOX.com's CEO front row at their show yesterday afternoon.

From today's Women's Wear Daily:

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Bloggers are now officially front-row material. At least that was the case at the D&G show on Thursday, where Neiman Marcus’ Burt Tansky and Saks’ Steve Sadove and other retail heavyweights were accommodated in the second row, and further back for fashion directors. In front of them were four high-profile bloggers — The Sartorialist’s Scott Schuman, Garance Doré of garancedore.fr, Tommy Ton of jakandjil.com and Bryan Boy of bryanboy.com. And to make their job easier, two desks and four laptops were set up right in front of them, entirely operative, as there's no time to waste in cyberspace.

From Wall Street Journal's Christina Binkley (via twitter):

• Arrived in Milan from LA in time to change my shoes and race to DandG. Always weird to see the Saks execs sitting 2nd row in Europe.
• Well, Saks may be 2nd row at DandG (so am I), but Bergdorf's and Neiman are 3rd. Correlation to their sales? Milan fashion week.
• Honestly - It's a new world order: federico marchetti, ceo of online retailer Yoox, is front row at D+G. saks, bergdorf, neiman's, aren't.
  
  

In Style USA

In Style USA

British In Style may have called me "small time" last month but whatevs. In Style USA gave me and my gurls Susie and Rumi a lovely shout out yesterday.

Woohoo! Click HERE to read it online.

More updates to follow. I know, I know... I have so much overdue work that needs to be done but what can I do?

screenshot via In Style

Hayley

The fabu Hayley of fashionhayleyhome.blogspot.com is giving us a shopping tour of Melbourne.


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Family Reunion

Family reunion! Imelda of imelda.com.au, Helen of sassybella.com and Patty of frockwriter.com.


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Don't Shop! [video]

Don't Shop!

Ladies and gays, have you seen this hilarious video? Thirteen NYC fashion bloggers, from the lovely Gala of Gala Darling and Sarah of StyleITonline to Yuli Ziv of MyItThings and Jean of StyleObserver, shot this funny video to encourage you and your friends to shop. I think it's awesome. It's sale season right now and there are so many bargains everywhere!

Shopping is great if you have cashmoney and unlimited credit but in these crazy financial times and credit cruch, who's got crispy benjamins or a non-maxed out visa?

Just sayin'

The Sartorialist Book by Scott Schuman

The Sartorialist Book by Scott Schuman

For US$16.50, now you too can pre-order Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist's new self-titled book to be released on August 12, 2009.

Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people on the street who looked great. His now famous blog ('the bellwether American site that turned photo blogging into an art form' - "New York Times") was an attempt to showcase the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people - not only those of the fashion industry. The book is a beautiful anthology of Scott's favourite shots from around the world. They include photographs of well-known fashion figures as well as those shots of the anonymous passerby whose imagination and taste delight the viewer. From the streets of Rio to Bejing, Stockholm to Milan, these are the people that have inspired Scott and in turn, inspired designers and people of all ages, wages and nationalities with an interest in fashion. Intimately designed and created with Scott, the book is a handsome object in its own right, in full colour on hand-picked, quality paper.

Amazon is taking pre-orders now.

Just for laughs...

Just for laughs...

I miss Paris.

Can you imagine if Cavalli or Blumarine dressed us up?

photo via JakandJil

et voila!

Sorry JeanPaul but Russell Marsh and Angus Munro did the casting. Just be thankful we're not all blondes!!!

LOLERCOASTER! See you next season guys!!!

OH SNAP! How to get shot by The Sartorialist

OH SNAP!How to get shot by The Sartorialist

Don't lie now. I know some of you are very, very very desperate and absolutely gagging to be shot by famed streetstyle photographer The Sartorialist. Well, the hysterical folks over at Refinery29 unveiled the magic formula on how to get your photo taken by Mr. Scott Schuman. They got the formula nailed to the core. It's *that* easy apparently!

Click click click to see the entire flow chart.

The Daily Beast's Fashion Blogger Power List

The Daily Beast's Fashion Blogger Power List

The lovely folks over at Tina Brown's The Daily Beast just published their "Fashion Blogger Power List". Your favourite online heavyweights are there: Fashion Toast, The Sartorialist, Style Bubble, and Tommy of Jak and Jil.

Believe it or not, I often get bewildered every time media outlets, whether online or in print, publish wonderful things about me. I mean come on --- I could barely put sentences together and my pictures are of mediocre quality to be a proper, proper 'blogger'. But you know what? For some strange reason, people seem to respond to my crazy formula of being fun, frivolous, spontaneous, carefree, post everything raw as it is, warts and all... it somehow works for me! I guess that's proof enough that the internet is so awesome. You can be a cuckoo kooky character living his dream (such as myself) and still have an audience. 

Oh and this is the nicest thing someone said about me, EVER.

Thank you, thank you so much The Daily Beast!

Holt Renfrew Windows Montreal & Vancouver

Holt Renfrew Montreal & Vancouver

Wow wow wow! My friends Philippe and Eric who writes for Mouth Magazine (a site about Montreal pop culture) recently took these pics of the Holt Renfrew store as they walked down Sherbrooke Street in Montreal.

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Limited-Edition Greens by Bryanboy

Limited-Edition Greens by Bryanboy

While every blogger and their pet chihuahua are coming out with t-shirt lines, I, in coordination with the very handsome and very talented Jamie Richards (formerly of JustJr and now, Voutier), have come up with my limited-edition line of gourmet greens. They're currently being sold at Franprix in Paris. Who knows, perhaps someday when we find a bajillionaire who will toss our salad invest in us, like, oh I dunno, Lapo Elkann, we'll sell my greens around the world, no?

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Bryanboy Loves Holt Renfrew

Bryanboy Loves Holt Renfrew

Have you ever had a retail institution pay tribute to you? Believe it or not, I'm still having a hard time digesting it. 

Holt Renfrew Toronto flagship store

As I previously wrote, Canada's premiere retailer, the 170-year old Holt Renfrew, is currently celebrating their favourite fashion bloggers through window displays at their stores. I think it's an incredible gesture (not to mention a very bold move) for Holt Renfrew (or any retailer, really) to do such thing. Unless I'm wrong, it's the world's first. I'm truly, madly, deeply happy that the 'establishment' recognize us bloggers. It's such an honor and a privilege to be on their list. Thank you. Thank you so much. Look , I've never even been to Canada... but I'm there in spirit! I wish I was in Toronto right now so I could pose near my window but alas, I'm in Tokyo. 

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