361. IFB Evolving Influence, Chictopia, Fashion Week, debauched Stoic, I mean Epicurean
I have so many backlogged photos and blog entries to share with you, but no time at all. In the past few weeks, my cousin and aunt came to visit (my auntie all the way from Shanghai!) and we ate Korean barbecue, home-cooked Chinese food every morning, afternoon, and night (except the nights we were … Read more
360. Belated Labor Day solidarity (Oh yeah, and my teenage dreams came true last night)
Although I know International Workers’ Day is far more significant to the progressive labor movement, and Labor Day has long since been debased into having little meaning other than serving as an annoying cut-off date for fashion conservatives as the last appropriate occasion to wear white, as well as one last opportunity for a summer … Read more
359. Love post: I-Ella, Mandate, & You
A few days ago, I met with the super adorable & super good-at-her-job Laura from I-Ella, which is this rad new website (I’m talking rad on the level of a hypothetical love child between Claudia Kishi + Luna Lovegood) where you can shop the closets of celebrities, as well as sell, buy, and swap your … Read more
358. Dior, dior, dior, dior, who cares who cares who cares, fashion is dumb + anyone who spends any amount of time thinking about it is a brainwashed idiot
Hi everyone! I just wanted to post the longer, original version of my Guardian blog post. Thanks to Minh-ha for alerting me that my Guardian post on Dior was included in the Business of Fashion Daily Digest. It was also picked up by The Atlantic’s blog, (The Atlantic Wire,) even though it seems like the … Read more
357. first day on the job
Marc by MJ dress Today is my first day on the new job, and I’ve been looking forward to it all week — this morning I’ve been eating curry and drinking a latte and filling out the last of the paperwork that I’m supposed to bring into the office. And, of course, changing in and … Read more
356. I wrote a blog post for the Guardian
You can read it here. The commenters on the Guardian are clearly not the crowd who read Jezebel & Racialicious & would probably never see themselves as every archetype in Cultural Appropriation Bingo… but it’s all right for me to get a dose of how most people probably react to any mention of ‘racism’ that … Read more
355. Renaissance Nubility
Sometimes I wake up from dreams so banal and ordinary that I forget it was a dream. For example, the other night I dreamed I texted my friend about a frisky car ride, and the next day on the phone, I referred to my dream texts, and he was so confused. I think I dreamt … Read more
354. Trying to be whatevs about shopping even though that poses an existential dilemma if I identify as a fashion blogger, right?
Talking about shopping is sometimes a depressing subject for me. I can’t help but feel enervated and shameful afterward if I think, discuss, or do too much of it, but it also seems disingenuous to completely avert from shop-talk when I’m posting outfits and talking about clothes all the time on this blog. So here … Read more
353. Protest & shyness (protest shyness)
I had to scan some old photos for a forthcoming publication and I thought I would share these two photos from a Tiananmen Square protest in New York’s Chinatown. I guess you could say back then, my father and his friends were intellectuals. Most of them came to the States in ’86 or ’87, when … Read more
352. Our San Francisco Apartment
Chris and I just moved into a new apartment, which has meant nabbing wireless from neighbors — it’s only yesterday that we got some Internet of our very own. My apologies for the quietness around here, which has been driving me stir-crazy as well; I finally got some writing done yesterday, which was better for … Read more
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