15/01/2012

sifr at Tan Boon Liat Building, Art Stage, Vanessa Ban, Eng Chong, Kizuki, Chin, Mel, Ma Maison restaurant. a Sunday well-spent.

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Engineered Garments pants, so beautifully embroidered i'm almost reluctant to wear them.. Topman burgundy sweater, thrifted wrinkly thing and one of my favourite socks, a gift from Rei and Alvin during their HK trip last year.

it has been worn so many times the brown bits are starting to look a bit mottled, resembling H? Katsukawa from Tokyo's autumn/winter 2012 shoes:

image taken from Style Salvage


Eiichi Katsukawa is the man behind H? Katsukawa from Tokyo. i love the addition of the "?" - a singular, unexpected placement of a question mark imbues the entire image of the label with whimsy. simple yet efficient.

an adorably meek rounded cap is the way a shoe ought to peek at the world, its rumpled, ruffled fur all the more inviting, like a boy in a gnawed old tee shirt, invariably emblazoned with a cartoon that doesn't show anymore. waking up with bleary eyes and unruly hair. unassuming tactility. i could ask of nothing more from a shoe, except an identical one in forest green.

i'm firmly focused on colour and texture these days. i can't go back to black anymore. i want to run my fingers around in swirling circles and heave a sigh of relief at the soft bumps and ridges, they tell me i have something to hold onto. that they are the result of years of interaction, they know my body and i, likewise, appreciate theirs.

colours are almost like favourite people - sometimes you're so pleased that individually separate friends mesh together so well when you accidentally introduce them to one another, other times marveling at how a motley mix of cacophonous, chaotic characters could produce a fresco that somehow makes sense! multitudinous strands interweaving into a coherent web.

a sliver of neon orange awkwardly jangling against the forest makes me love it that much more. i dont know the label behind these socks, but whoever it is makes good, durable socks. i wish i knew..