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Remember a few posts back when I was a dresser for the Worldwide Maniac fashion show? I finally got a hold of some behind the scenes pictures of me, the dressers and Richie Rich! Enjoy.

Kaidon, Julie, Mary, Richie, me, Jessica, and Stephanie

Dressers at the Worldwide Maniac fashion show

When I met Richie Rich. He was totally chill and looked a lot different in real life then he does in pictures. Overall super nice, mellow guy -- although I didn't speak to him much. P.S. he rubbed glitter on just about everyone, hence the glitter on my cheek.

Fashion Fundraising

This post is so late - just like all of my other posts...

Last week, my friend Kaidon facebooked me asking me to go to a Fashion Fundraising event at Ruta Maya on South Congress. Rose came with me, here's us arriving to the event and taking pictures in front of this really gorgeous waterfall fountain.

Head to toe:

Express fedora

vintage vest

Hanes t-shirt

F21 cross necklace

Metro Park Buddha beads

American Apparel yellow denim pants

ASOS sandals

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We were running a little late, like always, but luckily got to the event a few minutes before the show started. The space and company was very quaint, it was definitely not a formal event at all. Good thing! I would have not been appropriately dressed.

I came to the event without any background knowledge of the designers, so I really didn't know what to expect. When the show started, I was a little unimpressed but the show did gradually get better. The designers who showed were Emily Brilliant, Amanda Fay, Holly Hobbs, Lisa Husberg, and Monica Li. Each showed about 5 looks they designed and I've got to admit, some of them where not impressive. I had either seen something like it before, or it didn't catch my eye. I do, however, must mention that although I was not fond over looks as a whole, there were individual pieces and accessories that I did love. There was one jacket (no picture, unfortunately) that was a cropped black bomber jacket with insane accents. It was paired with a long gray maxi dress. I also enjoyed the hand painted tie-dyed dress (picture below).

I don't have pictures of all the looks. Here are some that I managed to snap.

Enjoy - and tell me what you think of the show!

At the end of the show, we were mingling with our new friends and fellow bloggers Diya, In Her Stilettos, Katie, Her Side Job, and Jennifer, Lala and Bitsy.

We took some pictures together but Katie has them on her camera, so I'm just waiting for them to pop up on the Internet somewhere! Lol. While we were talking, someone came up to Kaidon and asked to take a picture with him because they were 'twinies'. The look on Kaidon's face was priceless! He was mortified, especially cause his shirt is Miley Cyrus for Wal-Mart and they very well could've been wearing the same shirt! Good times.

After the event we chatted more and took some pictures outside by the fountain again, this time with Diya.

AFW '09

So I recently attending the BuyDefinition kickoff party featuring Devushka designs. Sadly, I missed meeting the Devushka designer seeing that I had to work. Yes, gotta pay the bills with a day job folks - but that's beside the point. I am so excited I made it out to support my friend Esti and her store. BuyDefinition is mainly an online based boutique, www.buydefinition.com, who just relocated their showroom into a much bigger space. Here are some pictures from the event. 

Esti, founder of BuyDefinition

Photos courtesy of Andrew Chan

I was some straight legged Wrangler jeans, American Apparel stripped V-neck tee, DIY wrap around scarf, and vintage leather Minnetonkas loafers. My scarf is my favorite piece and was simple to make. A friend of mine gave me a scarf she made using the green stripped jersey fabric that she had cut at the fabric store. I simply took the piece of fabric she gave me and sewed up the two ends making it one big circle. From there, I wrapped it twice around my neck and fashioned according to my liking and voila you've got yourself a comfortable, lightweight neck piece!

Style Icons

It's Sunday night and I have plenty of time to kill so here are some of my personal favorite style icons. Let's start from left to right.

GDragon from Big Bang, Nicole Richie, Mary-Kate Olsen, Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, fashion blogger Bryan Boy, Lady Gaga, F4 members from Boys Before Flowers, fashion blogger Pascal Grob, and Ashley Olsen.

Each and every one of these people influence my day to day wardrobe choices and have changed the way I look at clothes and fashion. I only can imagine that one day someone will be inspired by me. That is all, buh-eyee!

Pascal Grob's Blog

Bryan Boy's Blog

Gareth Pugh 2009

I know this may be old news to some, but I can't get enough. It is just so mesmerizing..