Happy Valentine's Day!

                                      And a very special Happy Birthday to my wonderful mother!

Whitney Houston

I was returning the uhaul van I rented to move when I hear the sad, sad news about the death of Whitney Houston on the radio. They were playing one of her songs and then they played another and that is when I realized something was wrong. When a radio station plays a marathon of s singers music, you know something is up with that particular artist. I'm truly saddened.

I remember first seeing Whitney in a YM(Young Miss) magazine way back in1982 when she was modeling! She was nineteen and the article talked about her and her family and that she was doing an album. Well fastforward thee years and ...BAMB!... "You Give Good Love" and then"Saving All My Love" is released followed soon by her self tittled album.

1963-2012

God rest your soul.

Fashion Week Fall 2012...Honor

Can't seem to find picture of this show, so I will get back to this one. In the mean time...

I was trying not to get caught  taking a picture backstage and the subject was walking out from backstage.This blur is none other than...

...Kristen Chenoweth

*Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer and actress, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. She is best known on Broadway for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999), for which she won a Tony Award, and for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked (2003). Her best-known television role is Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing. As Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies, she won a 2009 Emmy Award. Chenoweth stars in the forthcoming TV series GCB, which premieres in March 2012.

*From wikipedia. I know of Kristen Chenoweth, but I really haven't seen any of the shows she's been on.



Fashion week Fall 2012/13...Richard Chai

My birthday and the first day of fashion week Fall 2012/13. My first show was Richard Chai. I was at the venue by 8:30. My and the rest of the crew I work with had to wait before we could go in because , according to one of my supervisors, Richard Chai had not paid from the last time they hired us and if we did not get paid first, then we would leave and the would have been a**ed out for dressers. My supervisor got a check and we went in to handle our business.

The designer arrived at about 9:00. A half an hour before the clothes arrived. This news left some of us shaking our heads. This is the first show of the day, how you not have the clothes here yet? They had to take all the clothes out, not time to steam much so a lot was wrinkled. The looks had to be numbered and shoes and accessories given out. In my opinion, the staff of Richard Chai should have pulled an all-nighter to get these things done. I pulled one of many all-nighters, working at Donna Karan back in 1997. I got to sleep after the show, lol!

Despite the chaos, everything went surprisingly well. 42 models, one look each so that helped a lot.Also, the shoes fit all the models! That really surprised me because the shoes are usually an issue for at least one model. They were cute shoes too, leather ankle boots, really cute. I liked some things, some other things, not so much, but the overall look was consistent and being menswear and womenswear together, it was cohesive.

 I worked with Ming.

Worked with Wes.

And Tilda.

Richard Chai

* All photos from Style.com

Happy Birthday to me!

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Eye Candy

Dang, I almost forgot it was that time of the month. This months eye candy is Godfrey Gao. I saw him on another site where we were talking about our crushes and someone posted him as thier crush. He soon became mine too! He is just...wow!

This is from the Huffington Post 1/20/11:

Gao was born in Vancouver but was raised by a Taiwanese father and Malaysian mother. The 26 year old's interests include basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, taekwondo, DJ, playing the drums, track-and-field and ice skating. [....]


Gao graduated from Argyle Secondary School in North Vancouver and studied at Capilano University. At 6'4" (195 cm), he has modelled in local fashion shows for Mantique, Torino and Ecko (G-Unit) clothing. His early acting credits consist of small roles in Star-gate SG-1 and Still-Life -- both of which were produced in his hometown.

He decided to base his career in Taiwan and was immediately embraced by the industry. Godfrey has appeared in seven Taiwanese dramas, from "The Kid from Heaven" in 2006 to the most recent "Volleyball Lover." The paparazzi in Taiwan and Hong Kong has started to follow him everywhere, a sign of his increasing celebrity status. Even though this star is rising fast, Gao still remains a very humble, unassuming and soft-spoken guy known as 'G' among his closest friends.


From DramaWiki:

Name: 高以翔 / Gao Yi Xiang

English Name: Godfrey Gao

Profession: Model / Actor

Birthdate: 1984-Sep-22

Height: 195cm

Weight: 88kg

Star sign: Virgo

Blood type: O

Love, peace and soul..

Don Cornelius 1936-2012

I've been feeling sick for a few days now, but I was able to lift my head to watch The View this morning and imagine my stunned surprise when Whoopi Goldberg announced that he had died from an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound.

Soul Train was an integral part of my youth. It was to go to place for learning the latest dance moves. Who didn't do a Soul Train line? It is the longest  the longest, continuously running first-run syndicated program in television history. Mr. Cornelius hosted from 1971 until 1993. Production of first-run episodes was suspended at the conclusion of the 2005-06 season.

I'm going to go see if TVOne or Centric is going to have a Soul Train marathon in tribute. I hope so. A stroll down memory lane may help me feel better.

And to Don Cornelius....Love, peace and soul...