Brooklyn Babe

Earlier in the summer, W Magazine gave me the mission of wandering Brooklyn with last NYFW's show haunts as my inspiration: anyone who was paying attention might remember the outrage that ensued at being called to the outer borough for the Alexander Wang and Opening Ceremony Shows.....the tweets, the instagrams, the snark! Never mind that many of the editors and showgoers now live in this neighborhood..... hahaha.

these are hard times for dreamers

Today is all about one of the projects I've done this year. Earlier this year (like freshman year at college actually), my friend Aimee approached me to contribute to the magazine she founded, pocketto, with her friend Emma. I'm so grateful they put up with my "artistic quirks" and I just recieved my copy in the mail. I'm so so happy to have been part of the first issue and can't wait to see (and hopefully partake in) future issues. 

Flip Through: Pocketto Magazine #1 from cavaan on Vimeo.

Aimee is such an obscenely talented photographer and I really do hope that if you have the means to purchase the magazine (it's Australian based, here is it's facebook page) please do so because you won't regret it. You can peruse the past online issues too.

PHOTOGRAPHY: AIMEE HAN FASHION EDITOR: EMMA DO MAKEUP: SARAH LEA CROSS, KATRINA CHEUNG HAIR:  IMOGEN MCCLEOD, KAT COLLINS ASSISTANTS: JULIA TA, CHARLIE LIM, MATTHEW SONG

I don't think I ever published this zine for people to buy outside this collab with pocketto, and I don't think I will because my zines are usually one-offs and only sent to friends as presents. They don't look right photo-copied in black and white, the best copy is always the original so you can feel the textures. So I'm very happy the quality of the paper and etc is so good in the edition that is being sent out with pocketto. Here's a page just because.



Have a good day. ♥

my life turned upside down and i'd like to take a minute

Man, Fresh Prince was ballin' when I was in middle school. Most of the kids in my class used to just plagiarize episodes of it for Language Arts class, while I wrote about Poe and incest (I was big on the Southern Culture theme in the textbook, also Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary was the first manga I ever read. It is a perfect read if you would like to scar yourself as a 10 yr old for life. I loveloveloveit) and punching mirrors as a geisha. The angst, it burnssssssss.

So anyway, I'm not even on a topic eh? I need none. LOOK AT THE SHOES. That is how you roll with Uggs. I try not to be a snob about clothes, because the truth of the matter is if you style it nicely, even the most blase biece can be worn fabulously. As seen above.


It is a sad day when your granddaddy steals your heels and wears them better than you do. Also, when his beard entices everyone around you to him like white on rice. Mhmhmhm. He is a magical fashion djinni.