Fashion: I joined lookbook.nu

I just got invited to join the online style community lookbook.nu. It's really exciting but sort of daunting at the same time, the people on that site has some serious style and they all vote for looks that they like, so it's sort of a popularity contest.

How can you help? Of course you can, on the right hand side of this blog is a picture of my latest look on lookbook.nu. If you have facebook, simply click on the photo, it'll link you to the website, sync it to your facebook and you can automatically start "hyping" (liking), including mine of course, haha.

Here's a big Thank You in advance!

When Tennis meets Fashion: Maria Sharapova daytime date-wear: spotted with Lakers Sacha Vujacic

Update: A good friend spotted out that Maria's new boyfriend is actually LA Lakers Sacha Vujacic, who has also dated Paris Hilton before. IMO, Maria is definitely an upgrade from Paris Hilton. Also, the fact that Maria is dating a Lakers sort of trump whatever she's wearing, but oh well, it's still a nice outfit for a day date in Serbia =)

Check out Maria with her BF, she's just wearing a 3/4 sleeves charcoal linen shirt dress. Very demure, simple, yet correctly accessorized with a boy-size men's watch and a shoulder strap bag. Keeping it casual and tough-chic at the same time.

When Tennis meets Fashion: GQ snaps great style at Wimbledon

GQ's editor got himself to SW19 and along with tennis he also found some great style. It's exactly what this blog is about, finding the real life connection between tennis and fashion; and Wimbledon, being in London, probably provides some of the most fashion savvy spectators of all tennis events around the globe. Click here to see the slide show and other great GQ editorials.

Fashion: More images from Sammi wearing CCChu in her new album

Fashion: Elle presents stylish handbags that can charges your phone also!

This is awesome, thanks to the new twitter account of Erin Kaplan, Elle's PR Director and star of MTV's " The City", I just got a really cool piece of fashion news!

Elle came across the portable light projects, which tries to introduce reusable energy to 3rd world countries specifically by encouraging the inhabitants to incorporate solar textile kits into their textile/weaving culture. The first result was a messenger bag that is equipped with a flexible solar panel, an HBLED light, a rechargeable battery pack, and a USB port. Elle picked up the exciting idea and tapped 9 designers to recreate their version of this high-tech multi purpose handbag so that YOU can also experience this new exciting development - a bag that can recharge your phone, your iPod, or your whatnot.

Participating designers include: Diane Von Furstenburg, Tommy Hilfiger, Loomstate, Loeffler Randall, Lutz and Patmos, Rogan, Vena Cava, and Zero + Maria Cornejo

Now Elle is auctioning the nine handbags online with proceeds going toward "The Portable Lights" project. Click here to check out the online auction.

And follow Erin Kaplan @twitter here.

Fashion: Paris Photographer - Sacha Dumain

A friend suggested me to join this online fashion/style community lookbook.nu and it's wonderful, I found a bunch of really talented and stylish people sharing their looks and looks that they like. It's by invite only, so wish me luck that I get invited to be a member, just applied....!

BUT, what I'm truly excited tonight is to find this fresh, talented French photographer Sacha Dumain, he's 19, a fashion photographer, student, fashion lover, who goes around Paris shooting fashion, his friends, and beautiful objects. His shots are black and white, and there's definitely youthfulness in it, which comes with a sense of freedom, but also maturity, which manifest itself in a weird sense of intensity in his pictures. By taking away the element of color, his fashion shots really focus on pattern and contrast between texture and the surroundings. I particularly like his shot of Carine Roitfeld, French Vogue Editor in Chief, wearing the polka dot Dolce & Gabbana (it's in the first page of his blog, click below to go visit).

(Ironically his own self-portrait is in color)

Check out his work in his website here.

Fashion: Sammi Cheng Love Mi World Tour - Taiwan

Mind-blowing is the only word to describe what was presented on stage at Sammi Cheng's 2010 World Tour Taiwan stop. The creativity level of her costumer is just outrageous and he always achieve the balance of fashion and costume; little bits of fashion elements are injected into each look to add some edge to the theatricality.

Some people complain Sammi is copying Lady Gaga, but I think it was more so the case of her costumes in the original Hong Kong tour stop (and that's just the opening outfit, Sammi's style is more trendy where Gaga's more artsy and theatrical). Here in Taiwan, where she revamped the whole line-up and wardrobe, she wore looks that are modified from the HK version but remaining the same theme, or a slight hint alluding to the idea of its counterpart in the HK version.

I picked some pictures, take a look at one of Asia's best!

Fashion: Sammi Cheng wears CCChu on new Album cover

Sammi Cheng, one of Hong Kong's biggest pop star, is becoming quite a fan and supporter of local brand CCChu. I've featured the brand in a previous post with selected pictures from their new summer colleciton. And Sammi once again picked their accessories for her album cover. Great publicity for the brand, and I'm becoming a big fan also. It's good to see HK celebrities supporting local fashion.

Visit the brand's website here. You can order online and they can customize the order for you!

Tennis: Wimbledon Men's and Women's Final decided!

Men's final:

Rafael Nadal (def. Andy Murray) vs. Tomas Berdych (def. Novak Djokovic)

I was so wrong with my prediction, not only the losers in my prediction ended up winning their matches, my 5 sets prediction all ended up being straight sets victories, but not without some drama and close calls.

Now that the final is set, in my previous prediction post, I wasn't able to pick a winner until the semi-finals are done, and I think (which I'll probably be wrong...) the winner will be Tomas Berdych!!! Not only has Berdych beaten Nadal before, he's playing too well to not win, and his mental strength has proven to be much improved as he has shown in his semi-final match earlier today.

Womens Final:

Serena William (def. Kvitova) vs. Vera Zvonareva (def. Pironkova)

The winner will be Serena, she's going to peak in the final, and there's no way Zvonareva will have much to offer. Not saying the match won't be competitive, in fact it'll probably be a close one, but Serena will more than likely pull through and defend her Wimbledon title and thus continuing the Williams sister's dominance in Wimbledon for the last 10 years, only 1 out of the past 10 years has there not been a Williams in the ladies' singles Final.

Fashion: Theory host Stylist Battles on Facebook!

Contemporary brand Theory is hosting a stylist battle on their facebook page. They're pitting three stylists against each other, Nylon's Joseph Ericco and Dani Stahl, along with Annabel Tollman. Each one will style three similar looks (jersey, shorts, and men's) and facebook users get to vote for their favorite stylist. The winning stylist will have a charitable donation from Theory going toward their choice of organization, and the voters will be able to enter a sweepstake for one of three $750 dollars gift cards.

Sample pictures below, in order from Left to Right: J. Errico, and Annabel Tollman, Dani Stahl, more on the facebook page.


This is just one fun example of the real life competitiveness of the styling industry, and why not do it for a charitable cause, and it's super fun! After viewing the Theory facebook page, it's hard to pick an outright winner, while the women's looks are strong across the board with J Errico slightly stronger, I think Annabel Tollman has the strongest men's look, and for that my final vote goes to Annabel! Once you click to the website, her men's look is so fresh and clean, and most importantly, it's not bulky and heavy. It's still layering, but she gets the proportion just right, and it's quintessential Theory. It's a great late summer early fall look for NYC (or.... a winter look for us who're in Southern California), so go ahead and pick your favorite!

This is also getting me even more excited about the upcoming Theory x Theysken collaboration (read about it in my earlier post). Hopefully there will be another style-off with that collection, just imagine what they can do with Theysken's clothing....mm....until then.