Beautiful swimsuit spotted in Scandal.

Princess McDreamy on Grey’s Anatomy

“Shopping is my cardio.” - I need this shirt!

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AnyWearStyle.com’s Paris Correspondent, Cassandra Kirk, met with four designers in the showrooms during Paris Fashion Week - Lily Kamper, Kite Eden, Helen Lawrence and Estefania Cortés Harker, told in four parts.

Up first: Lily Kamper - Here’s what she had to say:

One of the nicest showroom appointments during the Paris Fashion Week hubbub was a naughty one by these four. Expressly told they weren’t allowed to have a showroom in this very nice two-storey flat in a quiet courtyard in central Paris, they did it anyway.

I’ll begin with Lily Kamper since it was through her tweets that I found out about the showroom. Kamper’s jewellery is dainty and ornamental, like slender chess pieces or miniature candlesticks, crafted in dip-dyed perspex and flecked corian (usually used for making kitchen surfaces).

The architectural quality of the linear shapes and perpendicular lines of pendants is underlined with names like ‘pillar’ and ‘column’ while the manner in which several pieces have been arranged - longest bar in the middle and the shortest at the ends - is reminiscent of deco-style sunbursts. Quartz and onyx sat alongside perspex, gold and silver, darling mint green and dusty pink contrasting with speckled grey and solid black. Curiouser and curiouser.

It was a lovely collection and it’s exciting to wonder about the direction the brand will take. Kamper had already been commissioned to design the awards for the WGSN Global Fashion Awards for 2012; perhaps, like fellow design talent Sarah Angold*, Kamper will be applying her talents and particular aesthetic to several areas of design before long.

Tomorrow: Kite Eden

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The AnyShopStyle.cn May Day Holiday Promo and Travel Shopping Guide

The May Day holidays start this week and we’re happy to offer a 15% discount code to the first fifty people who contact us here. (info@anyshopstyle.cn)

Going somewhere over the holidays? We’ve put together a list of our favourite products to take with you during your travels!

Spring and summer are just around the corner but the strong winds haven’t left the forecast. Keep warm in cooler weather with:

• LUVON by LIU LU’s Beige Suit Jacket with Sequins
• MANDARIN&GENERAL’s Lab Style Raincoat in Navy
• Madeleine Thompson’s Freddie Cardigan

Travelling doesn’t have to be complicated or messy. Keep it clean and simple in a classic black dress:

• Su.GuangYu’s Black Short-Sleeve Monolayer Handstitched Skirt Dress
• Madeleine Thompson’s Paris Dress
• LUVON by LIU LU’s Black Chiffon Dress with Loose Sleeves

The holidays are all about comfort. Kick back in style with:

• LUVON by LIU LU’s Black Knitwear Bat-Shaped Dress
• CHIYO’s Peekaboo Canvas Oxfords
• Yang Du’s Miss Owl Oversized Jumper in Brown

Keep calm and carry all of your travel essentials in these fun and drool-worthy bags:

• Yang Du’s Miss Hippo Large Leather Bag
• Rfactory’s Workaholics Bag in Red

And don’t forget to accessorise:

• D-SATA Miao Miao White Cuff
• Wear And Tear Binnen Single Necklace
• D-SATA Vivi Pretty in Pink Clutch

 And lest we forget the boys!

• Some Are Thieves Raffles Low Shoes in Turquoise
• Candy & Caviar Dayton Maroon Buttondown Shirt
• PATH Black Shorts Basic

We at AnyWearStyle.com and AnyShopStyle.cn wish you and yours a happy May Day holiday and safe travels!

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“Don’t fight, you’ll lose.”

#90210 #S5xE19

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my old friend Min Ju w/ Kat Taylor of Saydie. (at Autonomy Music Bar & Resto)

The most badass moment on tv this week. #GameofThrones

Survivor’s Malcolm in tribal council is a close second.

How I, a Korean, Failed at Rice.

It’s not easy to admit that I’m a terrible cook. Especially when I’m the offspring of a restauranteur and I’ve been living on my own on and off since I was eighteen. For the sake of my pride, let me rephrase. I’m a lazy cook. I hate cleaning the pots and pans, I hate rinsing veggies, I hate touching raw meat and I hate having to wash the dishes after the meal. (That didn’t make it better at all, did it.)

My idea of a great meal is eating out or munching down on my mother’s scrumptious homemade food. (I eat my mother’s cooking like the fat kid and his chocolate cake in the film version of Matilda.) Unlike my sister, my mother and the rest of my family, I see food as sustainance rather than pleasure most of the time. They live to eat whereas I eat to live. As long as it’s clean, safe and relatively yummy, I can deal with the Michelin star-less status of my plate.

When I can’t be bothered to hike down six flights of stairs from my place to get food or don’t want to spend my hard-earned money (eating out adds up!), I rely on my handy dandy rice cooker and the cold dishes my mother regularly sends me. I bought my adorable rice cooker on taobao.com for around 50 RMB. It makes 2 cups of rice at most, so it’s perfect for me as I live alone and don’t use it too often.

I had the most impossible craving for rice porridge (죽 | 粥 ) so I added extra water to a cup of rice. I must’ve put too much because after a while of listening to the slow hum of the rice cooker, I heard a pop and the rusty smell of something burning engulfed the room.

The water overflowed and fried the cooker. Then darkness (for an hour because I couldn’t find the fuse).

Oops!

I quickly unplugged everything, and checked on the rice. It was perfectly cooked.

Okay, so I didn’t fail at making rice. I just killed my rice cooker in the process. A bowl of rice in a Chinese restaurant in Beijing is usually priced at 3-5 RMB. Mine ended up costing me over 50 RMB. So much for saving money.

I should perhaps say something to redeem myself, I feel like my fellow Koreans are shaking their heads at me right now and doing a sarcastic slow clap.

Well, um, I make a mean kimchi soup (김치찌개) and bean paste soup (된장찌개)! So there.

And what did I learn from this experience, you ask? I now know where the fuse is.

My Chinese TV Debut - 30 Seconds of Fame, Literally

I live a stone’s throw away from the Beijing Television HQ (BTV) and they needed people - (i.e. foreigners) - to come sing and dance at the closing segment of a show called Youth Documentary (青春的纪录). They asked people from my school to sign up.

I didn’t sign up, but I tagged along with the group to make a report for the International Business Student Union blog. I ended up being dragged into it because of a last minute cancellation and I happened to be there.

Naturally, I was nervous. It’s not my first time or even second or third time on TV, but in those instances, I wasn’t asked to sing or dance. My dancing experience amounts to gay clubs in the Beijing night scene (less groping from men) and in a sequin onesie for my middle school jazz dance recital.

They gave us a few hours to learn a song, but we just couldn’t memorize the Chinese lyrics in the short amount of time. Instead, they gave us little mouthpieces so we could lipsynch. I think I was just talking all the way through. I did, however, get a chance get my Britney on.

After a quick 2 minute rehearsal, I realized that I had no reason to be nervous. We just had to wave our hands to the song and shake our booties to make the closing more lively. Literally for 30 seconds. Hilarious.

Overall, it was a fun experience. I got to see the how a TV show is taped, what a producer does, and be part of a TV audience and show. 

(Source: minjupark)