Winter Fashion from Japan

Well... Japanese magazines, that is... 

I love looking through Japanese and Korean magazines. There's really a different vibe being given by Asian magazines - more fun and quirky. Not to say that they lack of content, but they just make the pages more colorful and fun - like something you would make yourself if you were to put a personal look book.

Oh, and let's not forget their odd ball advertisements... lunchbox anyone? ♥

Here's some winter fashion inspiration from the December issues of CanCam, ViVi, JJ and others.

Would you ride?

New Rakku Design: Iglu Shoes and Handbag Storage

Remember the Rakku shoe wheel? I was so amazed with it that I literally obsess and at one point have dreamt about them. I finally gave in and bought myself one and its been great with keeping my shoes organized - or in the least keep tons of my shoes in a very small contained space.

Rakku Shoe Wheel

Now, Rakku is back with new organization genius! Behold the Iglu shoes and handbag storage.

 This is just a real genius. This system comprises of these individual cases that you can snap together to build into something that you can either hang in your closet, lay flat on shelves, or put on top of a wheel (can be bought from Rakku as well).

The cases are transparent so you can see into them. As you know - out of sight, out of mind! So this is perfect, you can see everything so you get more use out of your things.

These cases can expand or contract. So its good when you have some closet space - but not a lot of closet space. It'll contract to fit the size of the shoes or handbag to save more space.

They can be built and snapped vertically to be hanged or placed over the door

Or built horizontally so you can lay it flat on shelves or on top of a rolling stand.

The Iglu Shoes and Handbag system costs $52.00 and it will come with a set of six cases with the metal hangers - pretty hefty for me... BUUT then again, isn't this just awesome and can save so much space in your closet and de-clutter your floor, PLUS it looks pretty!

 This is the specification of the case

You can get these from Rakku's Website, or visit their site for some retailers that carry their products. 

Time for me to obsess about these and go back and forth whether to buy or not. I don't supposed they're going on sale during black friday? 

X♥

H&M + Lanvin ... I love it too!

The Lanvin X H&M full lookbook of the collection is all over the blogosphere today! Personally, I like the collection… not for everything but for most of it. I can see maybe the die hard fashionistas wearing the more outrageous designed dress - I don’t think I personally can carry that outfit. =)

My most favorite is the skirt and the one-shoulder dresses, PLUS the Shoes! I LOVE the shoes!

However, looking back to the first video that came out with the designers talking about the collection and the collaboration - they mentioned something about the reason why they finally agreed with doing the collaboration is because both parties agreed that the label will not sell their pieces for a cheaper price - rather just to reach a wider scope of audience… and boy they weren’t kidding.

I don’t think I can afford more than 2 pieces in this collections. Nevertheless, I’m sure there will be people camping out in droves outside H&M stores coming November 23rd.

Complete price list can be found on H&M's official website. Below is a preview.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!

X♥

Source: H&M

Unrequited Love... or so I see it

Whenever I see this photo in magazines, it totally melts my heart