Ainahau the home of Princess Kaiulani

Vintage Hawaiian Film - Circa 1913 - Waikiki Honolulu surfing scenery ...

♭ FL@T - Palaka Fashions

Found these cool palaka fabric fashions on a Japanese fashion blog while googling "palaka".  Palaka is the Hawaiian word for plaid and is what most of our paniolo (Hawaiian cowboys) where in Hawaii.  What a cool find!!!  Very creative mixing of fabrics!

♭ FL@T

B1F 1-14-18 Shinmachi Aomori-City Aomori Japan
phone/facsimile 017-777-4363

FRENCH JKT ¥52,500

ENGINNER VEST ¥37,800

KENDO PANTS ¥39,900

※ボーダーカットソーはJUNYA WATANABE MANです。

 

 

PALAKA PARKA ¥39,900

CAMO SHORTS ¥26,250

※シャツはBEDWIN,ボウタイはSOPHNET.です。

http://flat-oneness.jugem.jp/?cid=30#

Billabong Pro Tahiti 2012 - DAY 2 HIGHLIGHTS

"Live your dreams" de Honovai

E HIMENE A VAU - MANAHUNE

Bromeliad: Inspired by photoreality

Two inspiring posted by Bromeliad

 Inspired by photoreality 

Photorealistic digital fabric prints have been hitting the runways for the past year or two and are starting to trickle down to retailers from Anthro to H&M and are also turning up in home decor.

I particularly like photoreal prints that reproduce nature with landscapes, ocean surf and florals.

Are you feeling photoreality?

Images: H&M Dress on Hedvig at Northern Light; Marios (left), Anthropologie (right); Dries Van Noten Spring 2012 (top), Prada (bottom); Marios bag, Stella McCartney jacket; Mary Katrantzou; Dezso by Sara Beltran pouches

http://www.bromeliadliving.com/2012/08/inspired-by-photoreality.html

A DIY challenge 

   

As discussed yesterday, things surfy and photorealistic are hot fashion items right now.

So my DIY challenge is to decide what to do with the image above, which comes to us via Walmart.

Alert fellow blogger Maya Griggs from Soccer Mom Style came across Get a Life photoreal t-shirts at her local Walmart. Being a fellow fashionista, she immediately saw the high end DIY potential of these ridiculously cool shirts for $11.

Since they aren't available online, she kindly sent me one. I never got so excited about a t-shirt.

But what to do with it? Not as in a lack of ideas but as in which idea. 

 

   I could just keep it as a t-shirt a la Marios. (A Marios shirt is $165 and out of stock to boot.)

I could make it it into a pencil skirt or a mini dress a la Suno.

 

 

 Or I could turn it into a pouch or clutch a la Jimmy Choo, Samudra or Dezco. 

 

Here we have Jimmy Choo's Surf Clutch, which was $795 but is sold out. (I swear it's the same surfer.)

http://www.bromeliadliving.com/2012/08/a-diy-challenge.html

 

 

Cia Maritima Swimwear Summer 2013: Bikini Models at Miami Swim Fashion W...