Pastel perfect Alice

Cute like a doll.
Modern day Alice in Wonderland?

3 sets of socks + 3 shades of pink= Perfection!

sneakers...

They love their sneakers over here so its kind-of impossible not to find any that suit your style. 

  

My new favorites are these grey converse which are made out of jersey with a hint of colors faded into the fabric. I pimped them with some sparkly laces to make them a little bit cooler :)

Portable rubber duck

I love my portable rubber duck, the latest mobile phone accessory!

A. Its practical; keeps the dust out of the headphone jack

AND

B. Its very cute :)

You can find everything from bunny-ears, diamonds and hello kitty to different kinds of food. I think ill buy some different ones depending on what mood i´m in...

All patched up

Cool style. Cool shirt.

Sometimes it rains.....

...but that is ok because in Taipei there is always a convenient-store (7/11, Hi Life, Welcome etc.) no more than a couple of hundred meters away where you can buy yourself an umbrella for about 80 NTD (about 18 kr). From where im living there are at least 10 convenient stores that I can reach within 5 minutes. Apparently Taiwan has the highest concentration of convenience-stores in the world; almost 10,000 in an area of 36,000 sq kilometers (read more here- LINK).

                                                                                                          

I guess the Taiwanese have the right to their favorite saying "Hěn fāng biàn" - "Very convenient"!

This is my third umbrella iv bought in the last month.
Since you never bring it along hoping you wont have to use one, you just buy a new one!

Hannes very cool race-helmet umbrella which everyone is very jealous of!

A rainy day at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

A rainy day in the northern part of Taiwan; Keelung

Colorful umbrellas at Weekend Fever

Conclusion:

Yǔ sǎn hěn fāng biàn! = Umbrellas are very convenient!

Fashion show at Fu Jen University

I attended a fashion show at Fu Jen University here in Taipei on Saturday. I didn't know what to expect since I didn't even know what student were presenting but apparently it was the final collection by the Fashion Design Master Students. It was really overwhelming and so impressive! Student after student kept surprising me with such creative and inspiring collections and I couldn't stop thinking about how much time and passion they must have spent on this. It was everything from crazy couture-like creations to beautiful casual-wear and what surprised me the most was the menswear. My favorite collections were actually menswear which is usually not the case.

Unfortunately i dont know the name of the students nor the collections but I am sure some of these students will become very successful in the future, so ill try to find out my favorites!

Advanced knitting techniques 

Mixing and matching materials

Brush-like skirt

Absolutely stunning dress

Neon creations that were mostly visible in UV light

My favorite piece in my favorite collection. The models all wore badminton balls in-front of their glasses.
This is a really nice faded denim jacket with a embroidery in faded pastels.

Faded pastels

Leather shorts with beed embroidery and beautiful prints on silk

This collection was really creative where the theme was accessories as part of the actual garment.
This one is two huge earrings.

Giant watch

Beautiful prints in this collection and I particularly love the design of this top.
It reminds me of the 50´s!

Sherlock Holmes collection, very well made

Hen Shuai

The water-bottle bag is amazing

Color-pop and great knits

Chunky knits mixed with sheer fabrics

Fashion pooches

They love their dogs in Taiwan! Poodles and other small dogs are the most common ones to spot and their owners really love to dress them or even style them by cutting their fur and dying it in various colours.

Terrier sporting a Punk-look

Poodle in the latest sneakers

Washed denim etc.

Casual washed denim and flowerprinted t-shirt.
And while she was at it she threw some stripes and dots in there! And it all looks so good together!

The highlight of the outfit, some "happy" socks :)

Weekend Fever

WEEKEND FEVER - an explosion of inspiration! 

Its a market held at irregular times in different places around Taipei with young people selling old and new clothing and jewelry for very little money. I went there on Sunday for the first time and it was held in an open space in the middle of the Ximen area. I spent most of the time taking pictures and I could´nt stop because there were so many interesting looking people. I wish there were something like this at home...but I don't think the dressing would ever come to be so diverse and extreme as in this case.

Im going to miss Taiwan TOO much!

Pretty boy in pearls 

Cow-girl

Love her stockings! 

Purple haired girl

Notice the necklace :)

Beautiful buttons as earrings

Representing SWEDEN

Happy bag :)

The black girls

Animal print-theme

So pretty with the scarf in her hair!

Blond-haired taiwanese

The blue-girl

Apparently the theme of this week was Toy-story so the characters kept popping up here and there.

<3 the blue Lanvin lookalikes....but there was´nt my size of course!

Contrast!