Oh Lent...

I wish to give up inconsistency for Lent. Let's bring this back. My friend, Jaime, pretty much opened my eyes and told me that I got too big for this blog. Sadly, kinda true. This is my opportunity to share to the world what I can give! And by the looks of it...I can give...

FACE! WERQ!

Say No To The Multi-Tasking Model. Just Pose And Look Sexy.

Remember MTV's "House of Style"? Remember how monotonous Cindy Crawford was? When I was younger, the only person who had able was my uncle and my grandma who lived across the street. I was knew fashion from the younger days having a beauty queen grandma who lived with my gay uncle. Lots of blowed-out bangs, Gianni Versace, and wine-colored turtlenecks. I wouls always stay with my grandma and watch "House of Style" while she tended to her garden. That sounds like every gay boy's life in the 90's.




My favorite segment of the show was Mike Campbell (a D&G favorite around the '96-'96 era) and his quirky interviews with male supermodels like Mark Van Der Loo, Alex Lundqvist, Gelati, and Jason Lewis (you may know him as Smith Jerrod from "Sex & The City"). Remember fashion's peak?! STYLE! Oh, how I miss it...

LOVE LOVE LOVE I WANT YOUR LOVE!

If you have not yet seen Lady Gaga's video for "Bad Romance", then you live under a rock! It's one of the best videos I've seen ever because it incorporates fashion which heightens the song's popularity. This has not been accomplished since George Michael's collaboration with 1990's SUPERMODELS and Thierry Mugler and Madonna's "Vogue". Watch the video while I show you a play by play on it's fashion! LOL!

P.S. Her sylist, (who is fashionably credible) Nicola Formichetti, is amazing.




1. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN DRESS AND HEELS, HAUS OF GAGA SUNGLASSES (look closely...they're razorblades!)






2. HAUS OF GAGA OUTFIT






3. RACHEL BARRETT DRESSES, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN HEELS






4. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN DRESS AND HEELS, HAUS OF GAGA CROWN






5. SHINJI KONISHI BAT HAIR HAT (comes in other animal shapes)






6. VAVA DUDU TRENCH COAT, FRANC FERNANDEZ DIAMOND CROWN OUTFIT








7. KEKO HAINSWHEELER MASK, BENJAMIN CHO CRYSTAL ROSARIES, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN HEELS, JAIDEN RVA JAMES MASKS ON MEN






8. NASIR MAZHAR ORB, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN HEELS, VINTAGE GIANNI VERSACE SUNGLASSES






9. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN OUTFIT (from "Plato's Atlantis")








10. BENJAMIN CHO POLAR BEAR FAUX COAT, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN HEELS, CARRERA SUNGLASSES






11. ALEX NOBLE RED OUTFIT






12. HAUS OF GAGA METAL BRA, RP ENCORE RAT HEADPIECE, ALEXANDER MCQUEEN HEELS

Strong Shoulders. Los Angeles, CA.

Fruit Next To Fruits. Los Angeles, CA.

Introducing: My Marc Jacobs boater hat. Enjoy.

V Magazine!

Hey There! Your very own recessionista is in V Magazine's website! Hopefully, I make it in the back pages of the magazine for the next issue! Click on the photo and find me! You cant miss me! I'm too fabuleux!

Even The Tiniest Purchase Is Being Affected.

I am the quintessential recessionista: I had to give up pieces of luxury and spend it on practicality. Basically,I have to sometimes have that "quantity over quality" mentality now even though I want to be vice versa. Don't get me wrong, I still have my crazy splurges: Chanel necklaces, Marc Jacobs hat, etc. But those are pieces that you can recycle and never go out of style. You can outfit couture with a pair of H&M denim (which is awesome since they have a Balmain powder blue denim jean right now!) with some Dolce&Gabbana sunglasses. My biggest splurge at recently was a MacBook because my PC which I loved, built, and had for over 4 1/2 years got busted. It needs to retire. It couldn't keep up with new updated technology. A laptop is totally practical in my lifestyle even though it's not in the recession sense.

I also had to cut back on purchasing magazines. I'm that type of person who is never satisfied purchasing American Vogue, W, and Harper's Bazaar. I will go through great lengths to drive 15 minutes away to this cute magazine stand that sells L'Uomo Vogue (Men's Italian Vogue A.K.A. THE BIBLE), Hercules, and the new British magazine LOVE. European magazines, although filled with rich content, GREAT editorials, and ACTUAL models on the cover, can be very pricey ranging from $10-15 a pop! These publishers know that they are very affected by this so most great magazines decided to be on the blogosphere and has found a new outreach to the fashionably yet recession-hit consumer.

Check any magazine website and they have blogs. Some even have blogs on blogspot! Great style blogs have surfaced such as BryanBoy.com, a 22-year old Filipino who lives in my third-world country of the Philippines, has become a fashion superstar, bumping shoulders with French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld and is a big Marc Jacobs fan to the point where Marc himself has noticed him and has named a bag after him in his Fall/Winter '08 collection. There is also a great blog that I follow run by fashion photographer Scott Schumann (thesartorialist.com), a man who had a passion for great tailored style, has become a big hit in the world, that he has landed a gig with DKNY jeans. He also modeled for the GAP!

And for the men out there! Check out contributingeditor.blogspot.com, an online magazine with great photographers and actual working male models. It beats spending $15 on a European magazine.

Sidetrack: I'm at Coffee Bean and I just spotted gay icon Carol Channing. My inner queen just came out.

Anyways, support you fashion sites. Because I want to be as impacting as them. As what Madonna told Dick Clark when he asked her what she wanted to do in the future during her starting "Lucky Star" days..

"I WANT TO RULE THE WORLD"





Yummy Yummy Screw, no?


(image from contributingeditor.blogspot.com)

Beauties At Bordello. Downtown LA, CA.

Wonder Twins. The Castro, San Francisco.

I'm back from my trip to San Francisco. I will blog about that soon. But what I want to talk about is the Bay Area's aesthetic. From my observation, they tend to go for the "second hand, i'm new age" look which really did not do anything for me. Too casual in an unflattering manner...until I saw these two while clubbing. They found a way to take vintage in an appealing way and that is why they are in my style entry.

The girl is too amazing and I am so stupid to not ask her for detail shots on her bangles. But if you ever read this, contact me. I gave you my card, Miss Ferosh.

Ah-Mazing!

Tooth Fairy, Is Dat Chu?! Silverlake, CA.

Everytime I come home, my cousins are always there to cheer me up and take my stress (and damn sickness) away.

The tooth fairy came down on a pink cloud...




And transformed her cloud into a John Galliano gown. Styled by me. LOL! Werq dat strut. Werq it! Own it! Couture!




P.S. Exciting news coming soon...

Emulation. Silverlake, CA.

Black. Draped necklace. They've been reading my blog. Good job, girls.

HAPPY 21st B'DAY, RiRi!

I JUST saw the "beatdown" photo and it actually made me cry. Why would ANYONE do that to my Princess RiRi?

I hope she's doing good for her birthday. This is how I want to remember Rihanna: Ferosh.

Minnie Mouse On Resort. Glendale, CA.

Tranny Fierceness.

Killing time before clubbing. I enjoyed what I wore yesterday, so I decided to do a spontaneous fierce self-portrait. Vanity is delish. Deep down, you know you love me.




Sasha Pivovarova for Dolce&Gabbana S/S '07, is dat chu?!...

Often Imitated, Never Duplicated. Los Angeles, CA.

Abbey Lee for Givenchy F/W '08 Look #1, Is Dat Chu?!





Ah, I love it when it rains. I can wear my Dior Homme Trench and use my Marc Jacobs umbrella. *Sigh*...Okay now the serious shit.

There's a fine line between inspiration and imitating.

Inspiration is when you have you existing outfits you own and turn it into a trend that is popping from the runway. You don't necessarily copy it...you have to put your own personal twist to convey your individuality.

Imitating is when you directly copy from head to toe...and miserably fail at it. I had the honor to discover that a person fried their own hair to emulate my own (badly since the sides was not buzzed off, it was gelled flat). I let that one slide only since it was more "Fried Rooster" than "Morris Day in 'Purple Rain'". The thing that annoyed the hell out of me was that, yesterday, I wore my cute cropped Dior trench over my new shirt, Dolce&Gabanna bowtie, grey tartan slacks, and Gucci suede loafers. And then I see that this mall rat had the nerve to show his face with the same (and horrbily put together) aesthetic as I wore yesterday. But to make it his own, he had a khaki trench. Real original.

At least it shows that people look up to me. HAHA!

I'm totally Cher from "Clueless" and homegirl is Amber, who bought the same Alaia dress after she saw Cher wear it. Snap.

A Chanel Valentine. Silverlake, CA.