Last July, I posted some images from the last archi lookbook and wrote about my experience modeling a few outfits for their fall collection while they were shooting in San Francisco. I finally got around to scanning the A/W 2011 archi magazine/lookbook, which features several stylish ladies living in and around SF, myself included! The...
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it’s intangible, indefinable, inspiring and represents the “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete” – it’s wabi-sabi! with roots in zen buddhism and japanese tea ceremony, the aesthetic philosophy of wabi-sabi is difficult to describe, but you would probably know it if you saw it. driftwood, misty mornings, drooping flowers and rusting metal are all included in this...
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i have always known and loved mochi as the pillowy japanese glutinous rice balls, usually filled with a red bean paste, which trader joe’s popularized by stuffing with green tea ice cream. but when i moved to san francisco, nico introduced me to a whole other land of mochi: a rectangle of pounded brown rice...
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how could i forget one of the main reasons i went to europe– chris & ramu’s wedding! married at starnberger see outside of munich on june 6th, a magical fairy tale wedding on the lake with absolutely perfect weather! we spent the whole day celebrating with games, tons of food, drinks, DANCING and a...
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