Graduation!!!

The big day is finally here! I graduated on June 19th with my BFA in Fashion Design and I couldn’t be happier. This post is a bit unorganized because of finals, and immediately working on AX prep, but I wanted to make a post regardless. Enjoy! (Before and After!) The selfie on the left made […]

Senior Portfolio

Today I showed my graduation works at my school’s quarterly senior portfolio show held in Benaroya Hall, Seattle. A lot has led up to this moment, and everything about it was incredibly surreal. At the expense of being cliche, it all happened so fast, and ended so soon. Here’s my display! I showed works from […]

Hello, Rue ♥ ♥ ♥!

This week has been pretty exciting, in the “small victories” kind of way! A former classmate of mine was selling one of her size 8 dress forms online, and I happened to be online right when she uploaded so I grabbed it right away! What I didn’t know until after I met up with her […]

Like thunder gonna shake the ground.

♫ “Roar (Vintage Motown cover feat. Annie Goodchild)” – Scott Bradlee. It snowed last night!! Ahhh! Unfortunately it’s already melting, but I managed to snap some photos this afternoon. 🙂 Despite the snow, I still wear skirts! hahaha thank goodness for insulated + thick tights 🙂 I really love messenger bags, but because of my preferred […]

Senior Collection

Yesterday and today I’ve been stuck inside working on homework for my menswear class Patterned denim has been trending lately, so I wanted to make the vest with a statement fabric in my first look. I fell head over heels for this dark denim, because it has a gold embossed print on it. To me, […]

Wing Luke Museum field trip

My Current Designers class took a small field trip to the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience over in Chinatown. There we saw the “Fashion: Workroom to Runway” exhibition, which featured garments by Jason Wu, Vera Wang, Luly Yang, and many others. Seperate from that, however, was this particular installation — which […]

Mini Nov. Recap Post

The past few weeks have been intenseeeeeeeeeee. Midterms was two weeks ago… I only have one fashion class this quarter so I actually got a lot of time to work on my garment. 🙂 OCT 23 — Intermediate Patternmaking is proving to be so much better than I’d feared. I patterned out this dress from […]

PROM! 2010

 I  woke up at 8AM… omg. I couldn’t go back to sleep either!!! So I sat at my computer reading manga until 10AM. =___=. Nhat called, and told me that he just bought his suit.. and that he’s having trouble finding a tie the right color.. ASD;LFHALJFGHFHFGH. Khoa came over around this time, and I […]

Prom shopping (again!) + Makeup haul

Started off my day with a delicious breakfast and a well-rested self. 🙂 my mom made me pancakes, and I suggested strawberries and nutella — so she added those too! It was SOOOOOOOOOO good!! ♥. She made the pancakes and put the strawberries IN the pancakes!! ahhh, so cool!! The finished piece. ♥ Put some […]