Remixing Fairy Tales in Popular Media
What is it about imaginary worlds, fairy tales, and fantasy that excite us? While escaping reality through fiction has been one of the driving forces of popular media content- whether […]
Category Archives: fashion
Maternity dress in Bones: Product placement or coincidence?
In a recent episode of Bones (The Male in the Mail), actress Emily Deschanel wears an green maternity dress in the final scene that is from the Liz Lange maternity […]
Lady Gaga and Couture
I am appalled by how certain media and ignorant bloggers say Lady Gaga has a poor sense of fashion. Of course, fashion could be somewhat subjective, but it is an […]
Hunting for brooches
During the past month, I lost two beloved Swarovski brooches– both at airports. One was a geometric cluster of three ovals, the other was kind of like a twig of […]
YSL garments inspired by art
Many of Yves Saint Laurent’s designs were inspired by art. Some of them are on display at the de Young museum in San Francisco, as part of a special retrospective. […]
Lamenting Couture 2009
Has the economy soured the creative minds of fashion designers, or are we seeing a huge evolution of couture in which the purpose of couture is becoming something we can […]
Wearing hanbok in Second Life
Modeling my hanbok (traditional Korean dress) line in Second Life. I designed this line of Korean dresses because when I first joined Second Life in 2006, there were no shops […]
Asian Street Fashion
On Friday, I went to the Harvard GSD to see “Pop! Contemporary Street Fashion in Asia” (more pictures here). The exhibit contained a number of elements, including fashion, photography, and […]
