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Friday, December 31, 2010

2011

Heiiii guyszsz. It's almost 2011!

San Diego + 10 Things I Want To Do in 2011

As you know, I got back from San Diego yesterday night. I had a pretty good time, disregarding the fact that every single teenage girl there felt the need to wear mini shorts and UGGS. It was 60 degrees. Wear UGGS when it's below freezing and you're alone and need to go to the supermarket.

The hotel we stayed at had this really great in-room mini bar but of course everything in it cost about 1000000 dollars. You had to pay $5 to use the "first aid kit" which was basically a plastic bag containing a couple band aids, a piece of cotton and these disinfecting wipes. 
These were cute even though it's kind of illegal for me to drink the contents.

"Intimacy Kit" and gummy bears in a jar SHAPED LIKE A GUMMY BEAR.

My dad took this one. I think it's worthy of a postcard. 

Since it's just a matter of hours before the New Year, I thought I would list some things I would like to do by the time December 31st, 2011 rolls around.
  1. Buy a pair of Camilla Skovgaard saw heel wedges using newfound babysitting money.
  2. Familiarize myself with more prominent fashion photographers' work. Enough of Juergen Teller, Steven Meisel, and Terry Richardson, for now at least.
  3. Subscribe to Dazed and Confused. How great would it be if I gifted my school a subscription?
  4. Read Vogue France and Vogue Nippon regularly.
  5. Buy something from Forever 21, or at least walk into the store. I have never done this and don't actually want to, but I feel like it's a rite of passage. 
  6. Look at every single Fall 2011 collection from New York Fashion Week on style.com.
  7. Sew more.
  8. Go to Los Angeles and walk down the Sunset Strip. And eat at The Rainbow.
  9. Practice fashion illustration more, maybe like 20 times more frequently than I currently do which is about once a month.
Here's some extra ones I thought of:
  1. Travel to Prague and/or Italy
  2. See Motley Crue live
  3. Do more community service regardless of the credit I get for school
  4. Walk the Freedom Tunnel (maybe; I don't want to get arrested).
Models.com is featuring the best of 2010 in models, editorials, campaigns and covers. You should check it out HERE.


Happy New Year's Eve!

2011 Happy New Year!

Tattooed LEGOs





The mad men behind Pilot Extra-Fine ball-pens (aka Barcelona�s Grey agency) have created a great viral marketing featuring LEGOS with drawn on �badass� tattoos. 

shirt off fast!


If you thought you could take your shirt off fast, you ain't seen NOTHIN! This video shows how to take your shirt off as fast as possible!

7 Billion, National Geographic Magazine

Not expecting anything is my only purpose for next year. Happy 2011 everyone.


No esperar nada es mi �nico prop�sito para el a�o que viene. Feliz 2011!!

Say Hello to 2011

Wow another year has come and gone already and can you believe that I have been blogging for four whole years? Today is the fourth anniversary of London Fashion Trends. First of all let me start off by wishing you a belated Merry Xmas. I never really got into the spirit of Xmas due to not having much money and the really crappy weather. Wishing for a white Christmas. Really? I don't think so - we practically had one and it was lousy. Well onto the next. 2011 is round the corner and before we welcome the New Year let's reminisce on the current one. Well in 2010 I started learning how to drive, joined a gym and finally got round to decliuttering my house and I also set up a mini office. I was invited to quite a few great PR events and experienced some wonderful perks. I don't have any resolutions for 2011 except to enjoy life and concentrate on doing what I love - rather similar to the image above which I find totally inspiring. Bring on 2011, I am sure it will be a good one!

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Getting Away With It: The Inside Story of Loaded by Tim Southwell

To me loaded is right up there with Playboy in the 1950s and Rolling Stone in the 1960s. It changed the magazine industry completely and even more than that it weaved itself into the fabric of society.
Derek Harbinson, editor of loaded between 1997 and 1998.
Who remembers loaded magazine? During my weekly browse through amazon I came across a book called Getting Away With It: The Inside Story of Loaded by Tim Southwell. Along with the infamous James Brown (journalist not the singer) and Mick Bunnage, Southwell created loaded which was a publication that celebrated British men having the time of their lives. Unlike their counterparts, Arena, GQ, Esquire and For Him (later rebranded as FHM and found success as a loaded imitation) which took themselves very seriously, loaded took a lot of pleasure in making fun of themselves. The publication launched in 1994 selling just over 59,000 and went on to sell an almighty 400,000 plus in 1997. This was in an era where men's magazines were relatively new so it is no surprise that Southwell has touted loaded as the greatest magazine that the world has seen and of course being a respectable journo he set out to document his experience in a book which was published in 1998.
As a magazine junkie, I just had to read Southwell's memoirs so I could find out exactly what it was like being part of the loaded experience. I will admit that I was no loaded fan, I think I bought an issue when the magazine was at its peak to find what all the fuss was about but it did not speak to me. However, I did admire the spirit of the brand and the way it captured the current era. The mid nineties was the birth of Cool Britannia what with the explosion of Oasis, Euro 96 and loaded were right in the midst of it all and capturing it. The publication was so influential that not only did male magazines start copying them it also inspired the launch of female publications such as Minx that were aimed at ladettes. Tim Southwell and James Brown became friends in 1992 while celebrating their beloved Leeds United defeat Stuttgart in the European Cup in Barcelona. Whether it was the elation of seeing their team win or the high energy of all the drink and atmosphere in Spain but this got their creative juices going and they came up with an idea for a men's magazine.

Southwell takes us through his experience with loaded from working on the dummy in order to test the viability to working round the clock to launch the first issue and recruting talented writers, editors and designers. He also shares with us the highlights of working on a publication which was a huge cultural phenomenon and  gave birth to the lad culture which became a manifest of the 90s. Interviewing many a celeb and being interviewed by the media to talk about the success of loaded or on lad mania. He comments on what it was like being part of the loaded team with the plethora of titles at IPC towers and how inspiring it was to bump ideas with a crazy, wacky, creative bunch of like minded misfits. The book is a compelling look into the world of magazines especially the synergy it takes to run a successful one. Oh and let's not forget the politics that were involved and creative differences, Southwell bumping heads with Brown in the typical deputy editor does all the slog while the editor takes all the credit scenario. There are stories from members of the loaded crew such as Martin Deeson, Michael Holden and Bill Borrows. Southwell"s writing is just right and his prose is totally engrossing and I was hooked from page one. In addition, loaded really takes me back to the 90s when magazines were being launched all over the place and when things were pretty damm cool. loaded is still being published but is now a mere shadow of itself with circulation figures of 50,000 recorded this August.

Getting Away With It: The Inside Story of Loaded is available to buy from amazon.

Check out the clip above with James Brown from the Inspiring Entrepreneurs event at British Library, called Hot Off the Press from a few years back.

TAIPEI - ho yi, lien en & nin, shih chien university, 12/25/10





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