Milan & Paris Menswear Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011: The Hot Trends

Get Ready Boys: High-Waters, Speedos, Drop Crotch Pants and Mandals Dsquared2 Spring/Summer 2011: Two Trends In One: Speedos and Mandals

As ever Gay Fashionista Male in this Earth knows, the Spring 2011 Menswear Collections are happening right now in Milan. Menswear trends and styles change and/or move at a much slower pace than womenswear. It's all about the DETAILS. However, in terms of some "new" style direction coming out of Milan, here are the Trends: The 80s Are Back; High-water cropped pants are staying (they look great on them 6'4" boys, maybe not so much on the rest of us); DROP-CROTCH pants that are lose and baggy up top but tight-as-tight can be around the calves will be the "new" skinny pant for men, if Jean Paul Gaultier has his way. (I kinda love them, especially on his HOT bearded models in above photos!)I also like the Stovepipe-shaped pants (above) from Alexander McQueen's Sarah Burton. Incidentally, that trench is "TO D.I.E!!!" LOVE.
The Speedo is BAAACK! Yep, dump the board shorts and opt for something more skimpy like the ones above from Dsquared2. Again, I suggest you have a body like Michael Phelps if you want to make that "Speedo" style plunge.Finally, it is all about the Mandals like the criss-cross ones from Louis Vuitton above, or the ivory ankle-strapped ones from Guiliani Fujimora. I am SO looking for these on Ebay next year!!!

Click BELOW for Dsquared2 Spring 20111 Men Runway Show: Part 1


Dsquared2 Show: Part 2


Click BELOW for Alexander McQueen by Sarah Burton Menswear 2011 Runway Show:

Men's Runway Spring 2011 Milan Fashion Week: Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana

Spring 2011: Cropped Tops, 1985 Is Back, and I LOVE ANNIE LENNOX!!!The Men's Spring 2011 Shows are happening in Milan and besides all the hot 22 year old male models with .0000008 % of body fat being shown on the runway stage, there's actually a lot of news coming from the Fashion Front. Let's start with CROPPED Tops. Yep, it's 1985 and you are Andrew Ridgeley or George Michael from Wham! Italo Zucchelli, Calvin Klein Men's Creative Director, showed a crop top or two in his latest Menswear offering as well as Frankie Morello, which is a line designed by Maurizio Modica and Pier Fracesco Giliotti.Yep, check out that crop top above. That's going to be a HIT in the Jersey Shore come next Summer! But staying on with Calvin Klein, Zucchelli was in a definite DEVO-meets-A Flock Of Seagulls-meets-Wham 80s mood with... shiny suits like this one above (love the aquamarine knit crewneck top underneath),and bright Popsicle colored sweater-and-swimsuit combination (can you see these at your next Cabo outing?) and those aforementioned cropped tops that only a Pay-for-Play male "Escort" would love (and his Sugar Daddy).

Click Below for the Calvin Klein Men Spring 2011 Runway Video:


Dolce & Gabbana Men Spring 2011:
For their twentieth anniversary show, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of the "We Love MADOOOOONNNNNA--and Scarlett Johansson Ads fame" showed classic elegant and sexy clothes just right for that Sicilian Pay-For-Play boy (is this a running theme?) who grew up and married a not-so-pretty heir-to-the-throne of a no-longer-a-monarchy-led nation. For Spring 2011, they showed lots of gorgeous relaxed yet still tailored beige, wheat and ivory suitings (above) great mini-collared shirts (my favorites!) and skinny ties, and a final tour-de-force of stunning sharp black suits. Of course, when the Dolce & Gabbana boy is not in them fab suits, he's in this:
When my Room Service Dinner shows up, this is what I'd like to think I look like as I get my Caprese Salad from the Relais Santa Croce in Florence Italy.
Congratulazioni per un favoloso venti anni di rendere gli uomini aspetto!

Don't miss Part 2 of the Runway Video below with the FIERCE Annie Lennox (yep, Lady Gaga who?)
Click Below for Dolce & Gabbana Men Spring 2011 Runway Video: Part 1



Dolce & Gabbana Men Spring 2011 Runway Video: Part 2 (with ANNIE LENNOX!)

My Everyday Makeup Essentials

Hello lovely ladies! I hope the weather is brilliant where you are, it certainly is here (for once!).  Here are my latest videos that have been posted on my YouTube Channel going over the products that I love using every day.  I'm really sorry that I had to split them into 3 videos but I couldn't fit everything I wanted to say into one single video.  I obviously talk WAY too much! Hope you guys enjoy them and please feel free to comment either on here or on YouTube.  If you have any questions or requests for future videos, as always, just ask!

A Travel log in Jakarta.

6/22/2010 
Mother-in-law brought over some local treats to us yesterday morning!!

They are made of starch, rice cake, coconut, vegetable dumpling, and peanuts.......

 Senayan City Mall.




This is the Animals that eat/select the best coffee beans and then poop it as a whole since beans can't be digested. Furthermore, the beans will at its fuller aroma after passing out from these animals' digestive system. 
Workers pick out those beans from their poops and wash beans out to sell!! ^O^


A Singapore brand which I like simple and chic and CHEAP of it. 


The asymmetrical cut lady print t-shirt is from my mom who bought at Shang-Hai. 


I bought 3 bottoms from Mphosis and this harem pants is one of them. 


We brought kids to a indoor playground called "Lollipop" at 6th floor. 
I didn't look for any other stuff except for accompanying 2 hours w/ kids at lollipop. 






Frozen yogurt ..... we found a local treat which brings our memory back to USA!! ^^


Yummy local noodles restaurant in Taman-angrek mall.

6/23/2010 Mother-in-law brought us some noodles for lunch again. 

They use banana leaves and then paper to wrap those noodles.....which we might enjoy them the same way in Straits Cafe in California but they never taste as authentic as in Indonesia!!


yum, yum, yum,


This is another pair of pants I bought from Mphosis...it is gray and asymmetrical bottom in front!!

Karen Walker orange pearl necklace print t shirt  (Ilona sticks a sticker on my shirt which I didn't notice until I saw this picture...lol)

Guess where did I go the next day? ITC building/mall---where you can find the cheapest bargain stuff from all over the world! ^^ (Thanks to my reader who also recommend this place.)

Those Converse looking sneakers are cute and are labeled as Disney..... which who knows where does the brand belongs to......



This store has very cute kids clothes!


Remember, shop 4th floor above for NICER merchandise as it gets crappier work at lower levels!!
(At least that's what I heard!!)

You know what's good about those jumpers...the elastic ankle which would fit any height of girls!!

Those jean top/dress/shirt is quite nice and can easily be accessorized!!

Guess what else I bought here.....

yah~~ both yellow and pink belly dancing wraps. I remember Ann ever asked me if I want to learn belly dancing in SF w/ her....now we can go together!!! LOL.

Tomorrow we are all staying at Bandung for 2 days!!

I am not sure if we even have internet access there.......

xoxo Rachel