Summer's Best Player

Downtown LA -  (day look) Forever 21, Chanel Purse, Toms, and my Coco Baby 

What is your favorite piece of clothing to wear day and night in the summer? Is it your maxi dress, jean shorties, or perhaps it's your floral one piece dress. These are some the easiest piece of clothing that is versatile enough to quickly go from day to night.  My personal favorite is the romper. Why? because I think rompers comes in the most variety selection of style to choose from. Whether it's the color, the length, or the pattern - it's still edgy but refined!  For my day- look,  I would pair my romper with comfortable shoes and simple accessories.  For night - look, I'll put on my heels, decide whether  or not to keep the accessories, and finally a jacket, in case.  

Make sure you tune-in for my night-look transformation! 

XOXO - R 

Printed.

Hi everyone! Hope you are all having a great week so far! Today I did some shopping with my sister before heading to class.  Soon enough, I realized half of the things I bought were printed.  I personally think prints are more fun to wear in the summer just because you have the ability to choose so many different styles for the warm weather! On the other hand, prints can be a dangerous thing to play with..because it look too tacky or too wild. 

My favorite prints that's catching my eye today were pythons, zebras, and polkadots! 

{Top} BCBG shorts
{Bottom Left to Right} Bailey 44 and Forever 21

Prints also have the illusion of making you look slimmer and curver (at the same time)! And most importantly, you can have fun with it! 

What's your favorite print? 

XOXO - R 

summer exposure = back exposure!

When the heat's blazing down on you, other than an iced cup of (input choice of drink) an open back shirt would be the next best thing to cool you down.
It is also an elegant way to show off some sexiness throughout the summer!!!

Here are some random back exposed shirts that I found on people out on the town. Sorry but I don't particularly know where they are from!!!

and here is what I purchased at forever 21 Japan.

I thought it was tasteful and just enough back exposure xoxo

forever 21 Japan
Coral criss-cross button up

What kind of back exposure do you like??

#3 - super shortie

Summer is officially here.  Summer  = sun, beach, sandals, maxi dresses, and of course shorts.  Shorts are an essential item to any fashionista's wardrobe. My favorite shorts for the summer  would have to be the ragged shorts.   These shorts are created with cut-off hem bottoms with a hint of a distressed/vintaged look.  

Top left to right - Rag + Bone, Citizens of Humanity, Zara
Bottom left to right -  Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters (BDG)

The splurge looks (out of the 6 shown above) would have to the Rag + Bone Moss Mila Cut-off shorts and Citizens of Humanity Manic Cheeky shorts both estimated retail price at $160(USD).  

The steal look of the two would have to be BDG super shorties ($45USD) from Urban Outfitters, which is also my favorite!! 

BDG Super Shorties - Urban Outfitters 

Super comfortable, rips -  not overdone, easy-boyish swag

What is your go-to outfit for the summer?

xoxo - R 

Japan Fashion Haul!

Last week I had the lovely excuse of going to Tokyo/Saitama for work and decided to hop onto an earlier train to go shopping for a couple of hours. I was walking around in my suit and though it was such a pain to try on clothes, I still did it!

I think I even wrinkled my crisp new white blouse in the process BUT it was totally worth it! 

This is my FIRST JAPAN HAUL! (post)

left to right: G.U., e hyphen gallery, Zara, e hyphen gallery

(pardon moi, for the awful layout!)

The highlight of this haul is my recent discovery of this boutique brand called E hyphen world gallery.(link to online store) Little did I know that they have stores in Hong Kong and Singapore too! The prices for their pieces are incredibly reasonable considering how well they are made. 

e hyphen world gallery:

mint green off-the-shoulder knit - perfect slouch (that's always my battle with off-the-should garments). 

coral neon stripped top with the cute small pocket has buttons on the sleeves and it zips up in the back! love the detailing - I will definitely do an outfit post on this one.

NOW for some candy -- ARM CANDY that is!

top to bottom: boutique, H and M, boutique, Forever21, e hyphen world gallery

AND to take me to great places, a pair of comfy shoes!

3 coin

These shoes were only 315 yen! that:s about 4 dollars usd! cute hey?

Let me know what your recent great purchases are!

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The Perfect Pairing

Is there an item in your closet that just goes with anything you have? If you had to choose one item, what would it be? The reason why I chose this particular topic for our entry is that when I shop, that's the exact phrase I use to justify most (if not all) of my purchases. So to prove myself right, I am going to pair my Christian Louboutin Lisse 100 Patent Booties with my weekend outfits - and here's my first outfit.

jeans/#Uniqlo 
oversized sweater/ #Zara
necklace/ #Forever 21
booties/ #Christian Louboutin

On a side note, this is our first full week of posts![we will post Monday through Thursday, rain or shine] Thank you everyone for visiting our blog! We are still very much in the beginning stages of our Mod Duo but I promise we won't disappoint.

'Stay Classy'

xoxo - R

No, it's not old. It's VINTAGE

When I first bought this watch, it was when I was in the junior or senior year of my high school. Might I add it wasn't that long ago, lol. During that time, GUESS was THE brand - especially the watches and I owned one - my prized possession.

After I graduated from high school, my styled changed (as many of us would agree)  and the watch was sadly thrown under the dust and forgotten until the rise of the arm candy came into trend.  After seeing the Michael Kors watches being paired with a plethora of gaudy bracelets and bangles, my oversized flashy GUESS watch came to mind!

Here is my revitalized look of my GUESS watch:

Top (Left to right): #club monaco #links of london #GUESS watch
Bottom: #Forever 21

My question to you is do you have anything in your closet that you can revitalize?


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New Beginnings

shirt/#equipment striped sophie blouse

dress/ #h&m

accessories/ #chanel black pearl drop earrings

#toryburch logo studded strap

#linksoflondon

LA week....

I am scrambling to get everything settled and finalized before I make my final move in June from Vancouver! The last couple of weeks was an introductory visit to LA (new LA).  Though I grew up in California, most of my adult life was in Vancouver. It was amazing to go back and experience the city as an adult! meaning more fun.

I cannot wait to post up the trends, hotspots, and everthing else about the city!! Stay tuned....for now, there are some of the OUTFITS OF THE WEEK!!!

accessories/ #chunky diamond beaded necklace Korea

nails/ #pastel essie color blocking

shirt/ #forever21 elephants

pants/ #h&m skinny pants

accessories/ #hermes

XOXO - R

LA to JAPAN, HOLLLAAAA

Giving you the latest fashion, beauty trends from one side of the world to the other ON ONE BLOG SITE! can it get any better than this?
I present to you from LA and Japan
the mod duo 
- lol a bit of an entrance but we gotta make an impact rite?
here's the deal:
we are best friends from Canada, but because life happens we are currently residing in different parts of the world. *tear*
from LA - Miss. R and  from Japan - Miss. M  - wait, does this 'talking in the 3rd person' thing make us sound pretentious? BUT we are actually pretty far from that....we are super down to earth and we thought this was a great way to keep us connected......especially because we both love fashion................


 us on a typical weekend :  "Is this the restaurant we made reservations for tonight???"