It's officially official we've been appointed as one of the exclusive stockists for swedish jeansmaker Dr Denim. their new collection (gorgeous cuts in the most amazing denim washes!) will be available at soon lee on 18 Aug Monday. Dr Denim is also at wooonderland and hide & seek. More things to do! lots of artsy little events happening. there's a photography exhibition of lin weidong's works at casual poet, from now till 14 sep. also kaifeng and his twin brother are having a show called For Mr. & Mrs. Children at the Post-Museum in little india from 30 aug - 21 sep. we'll post a reminder when more details are up on the site. We are so going to this more about it here. Remember her? we last reported sightings of her here. piksi is still at it, this time in summer frocks and such. Power puff drop waist dress made pouffy. so adorably elegant. by Francesco Scognamiglio, via style.com. louise bourgeois very very intrigued by 96 year-old french artist/sculptor louise bourgeois. this was posted awhile ago by rachel after a visit to the Guggenheim in new york. we took a closer look at the post just yesterday and found the artist to be most fascinating. there's a short video about louise here that you should really see. In case you missed it simon replied to everyone's well wishes here. beautiful photography by yuki (we're so addicted to her work!). shintaro miyake works by shintaro miyake. via ah yi whose blog has provided so many great moments of inspirations for us(!). cdg#2 love the matte black surface and its pebble-like form. the new limited edition comme des garcons perfume silver words. from blackbird, via hypebeast. thinking space top two pictures of alexander wang's new boutique for his diffusion line via wotton cool, bottom picture from mociun, via lena corwin. plus, bill gates is selling the world the idea of creative capitalism. what do you think? And this just in at vain & vapid julie's latest darcy skirt, available from monday on. cute! A trip to chinatown is in order look at these new goods casual poet just brought in! yuki these pictures by yuki are so nice. via black eiffel, a blog that's really great for our eyes(!). ooh have you gotten your copy? we've been so incredibly addicted to it! The Feast of Han Xizai this opera sounds super interesting. a taiwanese performance group got inspired by a famous Tang dynasty painting The Feast of Han Xizai, and decided to have scenes of the painting come alive on stage. the artwork is considered a precious documentation of the fashion, music, dance, and floral art of the Tang dynasty (the original painting is now residing in the national museum of beijing in the forbidden city), so we're expecting quite a visual feast too! the painting tells the story of the late Tang bon vivant Han Xizai who gave up his life of luxury and became a wandering musician as a gesture to protest against a world of political chaos and low morality. and this is really cool: to tell the story, the group revived two lost musical art-forms. one of which - the nanyin music - is a 1000 yr-old chinese imperial court music style. the show is on only for a day on 13 sep sat at the esplanade. more about the production here, a nice picture here, and book your tickets here! nostalgie workbag great handmade day luggage by nostalgie. via h(y)r collective. one trick zebra this is funny. via design for mankind. new look we've posted about this book before, but a new jacket totally deserves another mention(!). garden envy maybe if we have like a rooftop that extends much further and install huge big fans all round, this gorgeous benches/cushions/plant oasis could work out here? via the sartorialist. happy national day: #fast forward so there's kai feng who did the piece above, and who has promising installation art going on. we're also loving sok kuan's latest orient love series and her always gorgeous sophie black character(!). we like it best when fleecircus does her watercolour-ish works like this bird and this lady. this robot is so cute too. oh and there's also andy yang in his varied colourful styles! and the very cool boys: antz and The Killer Gerbil. for updates and more on our illustrators/artists, bookmark this! happy national day: #4 ann gee young & talented ann gee has a special place in our hearts: she's the mastemind (together with chunyi who has the deft-est hands & the sweetest spirit) behind our shop murals(!). we fell in love with her works at maad, and never looked back since. intermission II isn't this cute?! by antoni & alison for selfridges. we interrupt the national day programme this new balance cmyk pack (more colours to come we think) is very desirable. happy national day: #3 drewscape we like this one-eyed green monster so much! also, the soyjoy characters in the ad series (the one where a soybean and a berry-like fruit makes out to produce a new bar) were created by drewscape. they appeared in a TVC too! it's here if you missed it. andrew has various other styles you should really check out. happy national day: #2 mindflyer our absolute favourites from mindflyer right now has got to be the Perceived Flight of the Bird-Dog - the cutest sculpture ever, see top pic (!) - and the latest series he did for ION, the new shopping mall coming up in orchard. happy national day: #1 kuanth in light of singapore's upcoming birthday, we've decided to make a list of our favourite local illustrators/artists. and we're kick starting this list (made in the randomnest order) with kuanth. one of the veterans in the circle, we love love love his usage of colours and his most adorable dark themes as seen here. Coming full circle a year ago, WL & i chanced upon a lovely passage of words by karen cheng. we had it printed and framed up in the shop. some time ago this year, upon the request of a young, handsome male customer, we typed out those same words and emailed it to him, excitedly anticipating his possible usage. last week he - simon - wrote to us. those words were dedicated to his young wife who had passed away earlier this year. he'd asked his wife in a prayer for a sign that she is ok where she is now. the next day simon walked passed our shop barely paying attention to it. a short distance later though, felt compelled to go back. that was when the passage found him. in the same week, we read karen's very touching post on her husband's battle with cancer and how they both fought through it. we also found out from simon a little more about the life he'd shared with his wife. we hope both karen's and simon's stories can inspire great things & good love in your life. beautiful photographs from her, through her. The letter from simon ok...wondering where to start. It's actually a very long story, we've known each other for 15 years, and lived in 2 countries, and did a whole load of travelling throughout.Could start with how we met at University, in the canteen, or the first dates? It happened that our lodgings were very near each other, and there was a nice English square in between, so we had plenty of excuses to walk home together, and meet for dinner at the fish and chip shop opposite the pub.Or the night I had to tell her how much I liked her? I sat on the steps of my house for ages, my landlady, this lovely elderly British woman called Mrs F egged me on to go over to her place as I had planned, and just knock on the door and tell her. She lived in a sweet terraced house overlooking a long park, with a small stream covered by weeping willows.Or the first time she asked me out? It was Monday afternoon, when we had no lessons, and we were both thinking the same thing, that this would be a good day to make a move, but she beat me to it and my phone rang first. She said she just 'happened' to be in a red phone box outside a cinema, and thought of calling me. Would I like to go for a movie with her? (Just recently I found a box with things she kept, she had the receipt from the dinner we had that night, train tickets with my birthday on them, cinema tickets, a hundred sentimental things collected over our years abroad, that I wasn't aware of)Or the winter night we sat under the stars on a park bench, in Oakwood Park. There was only us, the sky and the stars, and we were freezing but so content.Perhaps the first kiss? On her 21st birthday, Andrew Lloyd Webber happened to be playing a special one off concert at St Paul's Cathedral. It was the perfect birthday.Or the years we spent travelling in Asia? In between working, we managed to squeeze in long trips to Bali (with horseriding on the volcanic sands of Waka Ganga, and dawn dolphin watching at Lovina), autumn in Japan (with a beautiful trip to Takayama). Shanghai, Yunnan (climbing Tiger Leaping Gorge and seeing Shangri La, all the way towards the Tibetan border), Lijiang, Guilin (hot air balloons!), Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Vietnam (Hanoi, Halong Bay, the tribes of the Sapa Valley, the Mai Chau Valley, Hoi An). Penang, Tioman, Bangkok for quirky things for the house, antique shopping weekends in Malacca, Australia, Xi'an, back to the UK several times, for her San Fran, NY.And there were many places we wanted to go but never made it. Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, India (Dharamsala to see the Dalai Lama) being top of the list.The first signs of illness were apparent around April last year. That's another whole long story, and a long battle that literally defied what the Docs told us about life expectancy - she was supposed to die within about 8 months, but fought bravely for over a year. No Doctor had seen somebody fight the disease that long, without major depression, and every sign of wanting to recover and live on.She now appears in my dreams regularly! The first weeks after her passing, always happy and smiling. And more recently, she's talking to me and telling me things. Two nights ago, we woke up together in England, she went downstairs to the garden, I asked her what she's doing, she said she wants to pick flowers, I said wait for me, I'm coming! Last night, we were standing on the bonnet of a big white jeep, she came and held me, and kissed me, and said "I built this for you!" I replied "Is it as good as the original?"...she says with a smile "Dunno, try it and find out!"I could write all day, in fact I've been writing for weeks, everything we've ever done. charlotte rampling rampling was declared the muse for the Tuleh look (in previous post). love her big floppy hair. more of her here and here. Getting the golden eye so you first start with a basic matte, earthy hue brushed onto the crease of the eyelid and along the bottom lash line.then, using 3 iridescent powders - yellow gold in the inner lid corner, rose gold in the center and copper on the outer corner - blend away! according to the expert, if you do it right (blending one shade into the next) you'll get "almost an ombré effect". brushes are everything to great makeup application, especially eyeshadows(!): the best ones for blending are fluffy and Osmond says, dome-shaped. The Body Shop has a pretty good range at an affordable price. looks created by polly osmond for tuleh f/w 2008.