The world just keeps getting smaller as I'm turning ye olde blog posts into real life in-the-flesh encounters. Elaine, the owner of The Olive Shoppe, the former vintage eBay store once based in California, has been bouncing around the world, from Beijing to Bangkok and now to Shanghai for an indefinite period of time. Their… Continue reading Olive Goods
Category: Shopping
Tokyo Redux
I didn't get to go to the A/W 12-3 edition of Tokyo Fashion Week but I did get to relive my experience from last October by way of the S/S 12 collections that are in store right now. I'm not normally a "I see on catwalk, I buy pronto" kinda gal. Well, normally that strategy… Continue reading Tokyo Redux
Blow Out
Collaborate and Curate – the two C's that have bolstered much of fashion's newsflashes in the past decade or so. They don't seem to want to cease but hear me out on this collab/curatorial venture. WOK in Milan, a saving grace of a store that showed me there was more to Milan than Via della… Continue reading Blow Out
Strolling Around
I did let slip at the Portable talk in Melbourne that I openly preferred Melbourne to Sydney. It was an admission that wasn't intended to butter up the audience but in fact as soon as I landed, it just felt gooooood to be able to put feet to ground, walk around for fifteen minutes and… Continue reading Strolling Around