Picasso Exhibition at de Young Museum San Francisco

On this beautiful summer Saturday, I've decided to go see the Picasso exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco; and I was amazed by all the beautiful paintings & sculptures!

This exhibition of 150 important paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings created by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is drawn from the permanent collection of the Musée National Picasso, Paris, the largest and most significant repository of the artist’s work in the world, and comes to the de Young as part of an international tour. The artwork is touring because the Musée is currently closed and undergoing a multi-year renovation expected to last through 2012.

Portrait of Dora Maar 1927

Le Baiser (The kiss) 1969

Balenciaga and Spain Exhibition at de Young Museum San Francisco

I’ve always admires Cristóbal Balenciaga’s visions of style that has set the fashion trends since the 50s and still influence fashion designers all over the world today. This past weekend, I had the great pleasure to visit the de Young Museum in San Francisco for the Balenciaga exhibition, needless to say, it was a magical experience. The exhibition includes top examples of the couturier’s designs, the flamenco-style gowns, the fichu stoles and matador-inspired hats, the evening dresses that seemed to follow the austere sweep of a nun’s wimple - borrowed from archives and private collectors. Let’s first watch a video about the exhibition.

Here are some photos from this beautiful exhibition.

Disney's Fallen Princess - A Reality Check on Happily Ever After by Dina Goldstein

I recently have come across Dina Goldstein’s photography artworks “Disney Fallen Princess” and it makes me both laughing out loud & sad at the same time and wonder what if all these Disney Princess had left their “Fantasy Land” where everything is all happy & filled with flowers & pink glitters and thrown them into our world, what their lives would be like? Dina Goldstein; a skilled photographer who has explored what might have happened to fairy tale characters once the well known part of the story ended.

Snow White & Prince Charming Trapped in a Domestic Nightmare

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Rapunzel Deals With Cancer In Hospital & Lost Her Hair

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Martini Gold by Dolce & Gabbana - Fabulous Ad Campaign Short Film by Jonas Akerlund Featuring Monica Bellucci

Since 1998, the friendship between Dolce & Gabbana & Martini Gold started by the opening of the Martini Bar inside of the Dolce & Gabbana Milan store then at the Shanghai boutique.

The Martini Bar in Milan Boutique

The Shanghai Boutique & Martini Bar, 1/F, 6 Zhongshandong Yi Lu, The Bund, Shanghai - Tel: +86.21.63390268

Here is a video of the fabulous Martini Bar inside of Dolce & Gabbana boutique

So in 2010 Dolce & Gabbana has teamed up with Martini and the result is an awesome one , a a special edition vermouth, Martini® Gold by Dolce & Gabbana. The exclusive mix, the essence: bergamot from Calabria, lemons from Sicily as well as oranges, Spanish saffron, myrrh from Ethiopia, ginger from India, and cubebe pepper from Indonesia.

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The beautiful Ad Campaign featuring the super sexy & beautiful actress Monica Bellucci, and the short film was Directed by Jonas Akerlund (shown shooting the movie below), the MARTINI® Gold short film is set in Rome, Italy - a beautiful backdrop for the visually lush story.

Grammy 2011 Red Carpet Fashion Review

The Grammys Award was just on tonight February 13th 2011 and what a night it was! And of course all the fashionistas all over the world are glue in front of the TV to watch the red carpet fashion of their favorite stars. Not like the red carpet from the Oscars , the Avant-garde, weirdness rules the red carpet on the Music Awards. But surprisingly, this year’s Grammy award, you see many fabulous Oscar worthy glamour couture gowns parades down the red carpet.

First, we were surprised Lady Gaga arrives in an egg shaped vessel then when she is ready to perform on the stage, she stepped out the egg! I love her new song “ Born This Way “ !

Here are some of the look from this year’s Grammy Awards.  Click on each image to see a larger photo

(Photo courtesy by Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images)

Beyonce

Bonnie McKee

Ciara in Emilio Pucci

Chanel Fiole Ultra Sleek Concept Car - It's the Haute Couture for Cars !

Ok! Fashionistas! who cares about Land Rovers, BMW or Mercedes Benz if you were to pull up in this ultra sleek & chic CHALE Fiole car! It will be the ultimate fashion accessory a fashionista can ever want! So naturally I am crazy about this concept car designed by Korean car designer Jinyoung Jo.

Fabulously Romantic DIY Valentine's Day Gift & Decoration Ideas

If you are tired of the same old same old boring chocolate gifts, romance dinner, roses, there’s something new you can try for the upcoming Valentine's Day. We've found some super fun & "EASY" to do, yes I mean easy steps with big visual effect if my kind of DIY projects haha. These DIY love projects will surprise your loved ones and make this year's Valentine's day that much more warmer in the heart & romantic!

Valentine's Day Love Canopy Tent

Imagine you & your lover sitting next to the fireplace, cuddling, kissing, drinking champagne & feeding each other chocolate dipped strawberries in a romantic canopy tent you built yourself in your living room .... How romantic is that?! so we've found a easy step by step tutorial by the Lose Angeles based designer Justina Blakeney to show us how.

Step 1: You will need 4 screw hooks or S hooks if your ceiling has something you can hang the canopy. 1 spool of twine, and a long stick. Secure the stick & hang from the ceiling, then Find some beautiful sheets, sarongs or large piece of fabric, in any theme you like to go after, maybe you like the "English Victorian Garden" feel, or Asian Imperial City flair or like in the photo here we are going for the "Bohemian Moroccan" kind look. Drape over the fabrics of your choice and use some safety pins to lift up the front opening as shown in the photo below.

Step 2: Making heart shaped garland by Using the news paper to cut out various sizes of heart shapes or you can buy those heart shaped cake decoration paper, and string through with twine.

Chanel Makeup Robot Power Activate! by Peter Philips

I call upon the power of CHANEL's CC logo, activate!! Chanel's global creative director of Makeup division Peter Philips has came up with this innovated Ad Campaign, conceptualize this stop motion video built from a bunch of lipsticks, compacts, glosses & brushes... it's just genius!

Rocking The Black Metal Chic & Dark Glamour With ChthoniC 閃靈樂團

I am a big music fan! from Pop, country, rap to Rock & metal music.... I love them all! The fashion industry & music industry are like twins, they two separate entity but they also influence each other on every level. So as I was surfing the web, try to find any good new music band that's out there, the group "ChthoniC 閃靈樂團" unique black metal style fashion, music & their video caught my attention! As I did more research about them, I just had to blog about this fabulously "Dark" music band & their one of the kind inspirations of their music and style.

Doris, Thunder Tears – bass, backing vocals of ChthoniC

Just like I mentioned earlier , the theme “Goth” , "Black Metal" has inspired many fashion designers over the years, here are some of the looks from the runway that feature this type of look & inspiration.

Junya Watanabe

Christian Dior 2006 Spring Haute Couture

Alexander McQueen