Sisley Fall/Winter '09 Lookbook

One question that keeps bugging me every now and then: Can Sisley really sell in London? How do they still survive especially during this economic climate? They had closed down their store at High Street Kensington, and now relying to their sites at Knightbridge and Oxford St. which I think kinda fish out of water scenario. And with massive stocks still hanging and barely untouched on the SALE racks, does it somehow ring something?

Btw, their collection for Fall/Winter 09 looks kinda safe to me. Probably a bit too plain. But if I can pick my personal favorites, it would has to be the grey oversized knit cardigan - a nice replacement for traditional jacket. Wrap it with nice belt, then you'll get an edgy look. Another piece would be the velvet blazer on the last pix which has a Dolce & Gabbana feel to it. As well as the denim blazer which is a next big thing for Fall/Winter 09.

Note to Sisley: you gotta reduce the price, mate. Or it may end up on the SALE section sooner than you can imagine.

Style to Steal: Fashion Forward with Bottega Veneta

Spring/summer 2010 might be one year ahead, but who can wait that long to start wearing those season's collection. And now that people started talking about seasonless clothing, I think it's a good time to start wearing any 'future' trend now. Being fashion forward, right?

Talking about fashion forward, one label that definitely set the trend is Bottega Veneta. From the cut, color palette to hairstyling too. And for most of us who's crunching on wallet, owning pieces of Bottega might be breaking the whole piggy bank. So what to do? Scour the highstreet then, coz there pieces that you can find.

My picks are some of these. Well, it might not be the exact copy, yet it still can do the job emulating the label's look.

• Contrast-sleeved baseball jacket - get similar trend at River Island.

• Bottega's version might be floral jacket, but you can work magic with H&M's blue floral shirt in their 'Purple Label' range.

• Leather blazer - the one from Uniqlo which is new in stores might work magic. Just give a bit 'crumple' so that you can get a slight 'distress' look like Bottega's.

(pix from mensstyle.com and e-tailers sites)

Maori-inspired and flowers shoulder tattoo designs

Hi,

The first few months of my blog, it had around 100 to 200 unique visitors a day.
But in the last few weeks it's slowly raised to 450 people each day, so I will keep on posting and show you the tattoo projects I'm working on.

For a new customer I designed a Maori shoulder piece with some flowers scattered on the design.
The design is based on a custom tattoo I did earlier.

It's symmetrical in the lower part of the tatoo and the shoulder part is roundish with a nice curl or koru.













Once the design is traced and uptimized I export it in high resolution and make a linedrawing, so the customer can take this to his tattoo artist and apply it on his skin.

Comments please! :)

Regards, Mark