LANVIN X H&M, IN INK.

With Las Vegas scooping up most of the leftover Lanvin for H&M and I was too little too late to even recruit anyone around the globe to grab me my favourite pieces while the rest of the bloggers are gloriously showcasing their desirous loot online, I chose to vent out that 'bitterness and frustrations' elsewhere.

Fine-tipped pen and papers are good venting machine, no? And Alber, if you are reading this, I am absolutely available for hiring! Illustrations are available for prints and etcetera, kindly drop us an email for details. More designs and information will be posted on fanpage.  

To add, H&M is set to open its first store in SE Asia in fall of 2011. The store will be located at Orchard Building (Califonia Fitness), next to Mandarin Gallery. Watch out for that!

Ridhwan.

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MARC MY SKETCH, GIMMIE THAT!

It has been one of my biggest long-time dream to have my slew of waif girls (my illustrations, that is) gracing an editorial spread of a publication. Not long before my actual dream dust into nothingness, I got contacted by the Style: Magazine team on a collaboration for their September issue!

So I hopped onto the bandwagon, got into a massive brainstorming process over a short period of time; which also include a visit from the fashion editor herself with her Cocoon Chanel bag amidst all the roving-eyed senior citizens and greasy residence of mine and a sit on the editor's desk doing final tweakings, overlooking his big collection of Vogue's past issues and his Hermes teacup. Evidently by now, it is only right that I have subconsciously studied the entire Fall/Winter '10 accessories by heart in between research and sketching, hah!

I would like to extend a big thank you to the Style: team for this dream come true. Grab your September issue now! PS: Look out for Alber and Karl's cameo appearance inside!

Ridhwan.

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AFTER GUCCI TWO.

I was considering this as the blog title: Because waiting for him to provide text might take another decade and the fact that he types with both index fingers doesn’t help either. Afraid that he will go overboard with the self-admiration description, I’ve decided to assist him. And by assisting, I meant writing the whole of this post.

Ridhwan’s thought process is very different from mine; I just take whatever while his is rather complex. We differ on style matters and we both dismiss each other’s opinion most of the time. On cooperative occasion, like the day this picture was taken, he went with my suggestions. He very much prefers quirky (not that it’s a bad thing) look as opposed to the casual, clean get-up but after seeing these pictures for himself, he was very pleased.

The individual pieces itself have a story to tell— the jacket was painstakingly tough to get and it was a gift for his 21st, so he could wear for his exhibition. (That, ladies and gentlemen is how you do gifting on a budget.) The bottom was his second pair; the first one had stains so I took home for washing now it’s mine. (Oh, did I also mention that Ridhwan is extremely generous? Hah)

You see, one could only imagine how long he takes to get ready. I guess that’s for me to know and for you to find out— hopefully when he decides to write the next post.

Images By Dinie Rahman.

Dinie.

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