Special Report: Tokyo Designer's Week 2010

So! There I am, at Tokyo Designer's Week. This year's theme is Environmental Design. The location is at Meiji Jingu Gaien. The area around there is beautiful and the pace is peaceful and slow. I pass through that famous Gingko tree boulevard and reach the exhibition before 11am. Many Japanense dramas are filmed at that Gingko tree boulevard. Actually Tokyo is full of Gingko tree. No wonder Toei Subway uses Gingko leaf as their logo.

Many people are riding bicycles. I've heard that you can get 500yen off the regular ticket price (2000yen) if you bring a bicycle along to the exhibition.


Tokyo Designer's Week 2010我來了! 今年的主題是環境設計，地點是在明治神宮外苑。附近的環境很美，步調是輕鬆與緩慢的，我經過那個有名的銀杏樹大道，上午11點以前到達展覽場，很多日劇都是在那個銀杏樹大道取景的，其實東京充滿著銀杏樹，難怪都營地鐵的logo是片銀杏葉。

很多人騎單車到會場，我聽說帶單車來的人可以得到500 yen的折扣 (原價2000yen) 。

好用的東京地下鐵地圖

有人送我一張在東京拿的東京主要地下鐵路地圖，我覺得這是我看到最好的メトロ＆都營路線綜合圖，也有標示東京有名的觀光地，很不錯，日文only，但看懂漢字的應該可以了解。

按入放大原圖

poupee girl

最近好喜歡玩的一個網路遊戲是poupee girl.
在存錢中，所以我都用這個來滿足我購物的欲望。
poupee girl 可以幫娃娃穿衣，買入新的衣物，分享自己衣櫥私物，還可以參加造型比賽，很有趣～～
雖然是虛擬世界，但是感覺有現實世界的原則與互動，遊戲鼓勵玩家互相稱讚彼此的造型，其實大家造型個個都配的很有型呢！大部份都是Lorita, Punk, 蕾絲Sweet Girl, 偏日本的style, 因為大部份的玩家是日本人，也有一些歐州的，南美和亞州國家的玩家，還蠻多都是用英語，可以看世界個地的style，很有意思！

最重要的是～～～玩是免費的！

Recently I love playing an online game called poupee girl.

I'm saving money for my trip so I use this game to fulfill my desire to shop. 

You can dress up your poupee doll with items, shop in the poupee world, share photo of clothing from your closet and participate in styling contest. It's really fun. You can feel the rules of reality applies to this virtual world. The game encourages players to acknowledge eachother's outfits by clicking the "Pretty" bottom. It's real cool that most people are great stylists. There are lots Lorita style, punk, sweet girl style; mostly more of the Japanese girl styles. That's because the players of this game are mostly Japanese. There are some from Europe, South America and other Asian countries. Many use English. It's very interesting to see different styles around the world.

Most importantly, it's FREE!!

MY poupee BEST造型

My poupee BEST STYLES

 

yep....i really like that hat.

The Last Goodbye

Lee Alexander McQueen's memorial service took place at London St. Paul's Cathedral on Monday September 20, 2010. Crowds gathered and attended the service. The guest list is like an A-listed red carpet event, including Anna Wintour, Kate Moss, Sarah Jessica Parker and Naomi Campbell. American Vogue editor in chief delivered a memorial speech in which she spoke of McQueen; "As a child he loved nothing more than sitting on the rooftop and watching birds fly by. His final collection was a battle between dark and light. His was an 18-year career of harnessing his dreams and demons ... But he has left us with an even more exceptional legacy, a talent that soared like the birds of his childhood above us all."

Sources said McQueen took a cocktail of drugs insists of cocaine and sleeping pills before hanging himself in the wardrobe at his house in Mayfair, central London. His housekeeper is the first who discovered his death.

Bjork paid tribute singing Billy Holiday's 'Gloomy Sunday'. She stood like one of McQueen's angels. 

Many wore Alexander McQueen's design.

See more picture here

I'm glad I got to know this news on the same day, just few hours after reported on various website. I've been tracking and writing posts regarding Lee Alexander McQueen's about since I fell in love with his work. Goodbye to you, McQueen. 

LONG LIVE MCQUEEN! His legacy lives on.

星期一，2010年9月20日在倫敦St. Paul's 大教堂舉行Lee Alexander McQueen的追思禮拜，大批名眾聚集參加，參加的來賓名單 個個是A咖級的人物，有Anna Wintour, Kate Moss, Sarah Jessica Parker 和 Naomi Campbell等等， 美國Vogue總編輯Anna Wintour上台發表一段追思感言，她說到McQueen小時候喜歡坐在屋頂上看天空中飛翔的鳥，他最後的系列作品是一場黑暗與光的戰鬥，在18年間的工作生涯他駕馭著他的夢與惡魔...但他留給我們的是更特別的薪傳，他的才華，像他小時候看到的鳥一樣，高高的翱翔在我們之上。

有消息指出McQueen自殺上吊前有飲用一杯帶有古柯鹼，安眠藥的雞尾酒。他的傭人是第一個發現他的死亡。

Bjork特別現唱一首Billy Holiday的 Gloomy Sunday致意，打扮的就好像McQueen版的天使。許多人穿McQueen的設計出席追思禮拜。

看更多圖，按這裡。

我很慶幸能在當天就知道這個新聞，從我愛上McQueen作品後，一直都有在追關於Lee Alexander McQueen的新聞，再見了McQueen。

McQueen萬歲！ 他的薪傳正繼續著。

image from Metro.co.uk

Coco Mademoiselle x 3

from Chanel US website

from Chanel UK website

 from French Elle magazine

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